Caroline Moeser talks about probiotics in practice - a podcast by Pure Animal

from 2020-09-01T14:00

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Caroline graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 1994. She enjoyed working in small animal practice in Sydney for 13 years, with interests in orthopaedic surgery and dermatology before commencing working in 2008 as the Veterinarian at Guide Dogs NSW/ACT.


In 2016, she won the Derek Freeman scholarship through the International Guide Dog Federation. This scholarship enabled her to visit the larger Guide Dog breeding centres in the United States to investigate and acquire knowledge in their methods around animal welfare, husbandry and their breeding programs.


Caroline became the Veterinary and Breeding Services Manager for Guide Dogs NSW/ACT in 2017. Her current role enables her to maintain her veterinary knowledge and apply this knowledge to the breeding program.


Caroline co-authored a paper on transitional lumbosacral vertebrae that was published in the Australian Veterinary Journal in January 2017. Her current interests are genetics of canine behavioural and medical conditions, and animal husbandry. She works closely with geneticists and breeding managers both locally and internationally with the collaborative goal of reducing heritable disease and undesirable behavioural traits in their canine colonies.


Topics include:



  • How Caroline became a vet and ended up at Guide Dogs Australia

  • Caroline’s main interests in Veterinary medicine

  • Dr Moeser talks about how probiotics can shape the gut microbiome and how they have helped the dogs at Guide Dogs Australia

  • How probiotics has helped reduce the incidence of diarrhoea at Guide Dogs

  • When is the right time to introduce the dams and pups to probiotics?

  • Can probiotics help with allergic skin disease?

  • The link between a healthy microbiome and development of behavioural conditions

  • Besides prebiotics and probiotics, Caroline talks about other things that can help to keep a healthy microbiome

  • Dr Moeser discusses faecal transplants in dogs, its indications and benefits

  • Microbiome analysis in dogs


You can contact Dr Caroline Moeser on cmoeser@guidedogs.com.au

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