16/07/2025
✨ NEW STUDY ✨
- Gut microbiota composition is related to anxiety and aggression scores in companion dogs -
Pellowe, S.D., Zhang, A., Bignell, D., Peña-Castillo, L., Walsh, C.
“This study adds to the growing area of microbiome research as it relates to animal behaviour, and provides novel insight into the links between behaviour and the gut microbiome in family dogs.”
“In particular, the genus Blautia was consistently identified by our analyses as having a close relationship with anxiety in pet dogs.”
“Given the current knowledge that dietary changes in dogs can alter both gut microbiota and behaviour, and that the composition of the gut microbiota is linked to behaviour, there is an early promise that modifying the gut microbiome via dietary changes or supplementation with probiotics may be beneficial in the treatment of behavioural issues in dogs. However, given the limited basic information available to date, any direct translation of this research for therapeutic treatment in dogs will first require a more thorough description and understanding of the core microbiota populations that exist in domestic dogs, and what their relationships with behaviour might be.”
Link to our new study available via open access at Scientific Reports in the comments! 👇👇
