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Did you know?

Probiotics are the superheroes of
the bacterial world! Beneficial bacteria
in your dog’s gut work vigorously to
help digest food, fend off harmful bacteria,
and boost a healthy immune system.

ProSol – a balanced gut a better life

What is the Pet Vet Lab?

Introducing The Pet Vet Lab, an integral part of the Irish Equine Centre dedicated to advancing the health and vitality of your beloved pets. Our renowned gut flora screening service and bespoke probiotic, stems from over two decades of intensive gut flora research.
This ground-breaking screening service offered direct to owners, produces a personalised probiotic unique to each dog. In addition, your dog’s beneficial bacteria will be stored using cryo-preservation, providing a life-time safety net with the ability to formulate a probiotic whenever needed. ProSol is a 100% natural solution containing live beneficial bacteria harvested directly from your dog’s own stool sample.... To benefit from this revolutionary probiotic, simply send us a fresh stool sample, and our experienced microbiologists will develop a ProSol formula tailored to your dog’s unique gut flora.
As part of our comprehensive service, we also offer a worm egg count (WEC), which identifies the type of worm eggs present in your pet’s stool sample. Furthermore, a lungworm screen, detecting lungworm larvae in your pet’s stool sample, can be carried out. The one stool sample will suffice for all tests.

Worm Tests For Pets

At Pet Vet Lab, we prioritise your pet’s health. Our worm tests ensure thorough and accurate diagnostics, providing insights into your furry friend’s well-being, ensuring they receive the care they deserve.

Probiotics for Dogs

The billions of bacteria in a dog’s gut, known as gut flora, are crucial for digestive health, nutrient absorption, and immunity. Stress, illness, diet changes, and medications can disrupt this balance, impacting your dog’s well-being. Maintaining a healthy gut flora balance is essential for your dog’s health.

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Testimonials

“Remarkable results .. made an enormous difference”

Kyro, a beautiful Dalmatian came into our care at DogsinDistress care in 2022 having suffered since birth with diarrhoea, being underweight, weak and never being satisfied with the food he ate.
He underwent so many tests including full blood panels, scans, x-rays and ultrasounds, all with inconclusive results. We then investigated homeopathy and Jin Shin Jyutsu with no positive effects.
We found a treatment offered by the Pet Vet Lab that involved removing good bacteria from Kyro’s gut through his own stool sample, growing cultures of his own good bacteria which were put into a solution that we gave to Kyro daily. This has remarkable results – after one month’s dose Kyro has managed to put on 5kg! Even better the Pet Vet Lab has bio frozen these good bacteria so we can access this for Kyro whenever we need to.
We are over the moon for Kyro this has made an enormous difference to his life! Thanks to Kerrie and the team at Pet Vet Lab for all the advice and support throughout Kyro’s journey.
Trust The Pet Vet Lab, with over 20 years of expertise in gut flora research and personalised probiotic solutions, ensuring the optimal digestive health of your furry companions.

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Optimal Digestive Health

Probiotics for Pets

Billions of bacteria inhabit the dogs’ digestive tract and, collectively, these bacteria are referred to as the gut flora and are essential for the maintenance of gut health and optimal nutrient absorption. A healthy gut flora also plays an important role in immunity and prevention of certain diseases. Canine gut flora can be adversely affected by many factors, including stress, illness, parasitic infection, antimicrobial treatment and changes in diet. Protecting the balance of the gut flora, between beneficial and harmful bacteria, is vital for the wellbeing of your dog.
How is our Probiotic different?
We use the beneficial bacteria isolated from your own pet’s stool sample, harvest and formulate into a probiotic that may help to re-establish the balance in the gut. This is called an autogenous probiotic. We store the beneficial bacteria from your dog’s sample providing a life-time safety net and the ability to formulate the probiotic whenever required.
Currently, we are offering this unique service to dogs, but we are working to expand this to other pets soon!

Worm Tests for Pets
Treat or Test?

It is always advisable to firstly test your pet’s sample for the presence of worms, and then to treat, if required. A test can be carried out when we receive your pet’s fresh stool sample. We can identify the type of worms (such as hookworms, lungworms, roundworms and tapeworms) using the microscope method. We will send the report to you by email (>90% of reports get emailed the same day we receive the sample). Lungworm larvae can be detected using an over-night sedimentation technique. On receiving your report, our in-house vet can advise on treatment if required. All these tests can be performed on the same stool sample, offered to all types of pets.

The Next Steps...

Collect A Sample

Collect a fresh faecal sample from your pet. Seal in a small, plastic container.

Send Your Sample

Send sample along with your details to the address below. Results emailed to you in 24 hours.

Direct Advice

Direct access to a fast, reliable, professional veterinary laboratory, without the need for a referral from your vet.

For further advice, or if you wish to discuss your individual case, please contact us info@petvetlab.ie

Canine Autogenous Probiotic – FAQ’s

No, you don’t. The probiotic is 100% natural and is not a medicinal product, therefore, time of dose is not important. It’s best to give it at a time that’s convenient to you.
Yes, you do. In-order to achieve the full effect of the probiotic you need to follow the complete course. The probiotic contains live bacteria taken from your dog’s faecal sample, it needs time to re-establish the balance in the gut. Every day is a step towards achieving that balance.
Not to worry if you forget, just the give the normal dosage the following day, in other words do not double -dose.

If you are finding it difficult to syringe the probiotic directly into your pet’s mouth, put the solution
into a disposable bowl and let the pet drink the liquid directly. It is best not to add the probiotic to the
food, as drinking/syringing the probiotic directly into the mouth aids a quicker target delivery of the
live bacteria to the gut. The probiotic can be syringed onto the food as a last resort.

Make sure to clean the spillage with disinfectant (either spray or solution) as the probiotic contains live bacteria. Continue with the remainder probiotic you have left. We have the bacteria stored from your dog so we can make up another one if you should so require.
The preparation date of the probiotic can be found on the label of the probiotic container. If you collected the probiotic from us and started the same day, count 20 days from the preparation date. If the probiotic was posted count 21 (or 24 if in the UK) from preparation date.

As long as we received the faecal sample from the pet you are asking about, then, yes you can. The
probiotic is prepared from your pet’s own bacteria and is unique to that pet.

Yes! Probiotics have been shown to minimise the detrimental effects of antibiotics in the gut and aid in the recovery time of the re-establishment of the micro flora of the gut.
An experienced Microbiologist at The Irish Equine Centre, will be available to take your call Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm. We are here to help you with your query, just ask for a member of the Micro lab team. Telephone 00353-45-866266 or email us at microlab@irishequinecentre.ie

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