Fecal transplants have gone to the dogs—literally.
A veterinarian in Palmetto, Florida this week revealed a technique that uses poop transfers to successfully treat service puppies in-training that suffer from recurrent diarrhea, a common problem for dogs kept in kennels. The method reportedly cured 87 percent of dogs in the first round and 93 percent of those needing a second treatment.
The veterinarian—Kevin Conrad, head of Palmetto's Southeastern Guide Dogs—said that he and his colleagues began looking into the treatment as a way to cut costs for common gastrointestinal problems that are often caused by bacterial infections that shed from puppy to puppy.
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