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Our pets are griping, vomiting and wheezing their way through an epidemic of undiagnosed digestive distress, according to Holly Ganz, a microbial ecologist at the University of California Davis.
Ganz sampled piles of posted poop to explore the microbiome of our feline friends in a citizen science project called Kittybiome.
Now she wants more pet poo – this time from dogs, too – for her new pet project Animalbiome.
She hopes it could be the springboard for better treatments – including orally administered fecal transplants and pet probiotics that actually work.
