Canine Lab Testing is a veterinarian-owned service that partners with pet-care and enrichment facilities such as doggy daycares, boarding centers, and training programs. We provide evidence-based recommendations for best practices for control and prevention programs to include access to convenient, high-quality fecal testing services for dogs. All laboratory testing is performed by a certified national veterinary laboratory. Test results are provided for environmental monitoring purposes only. No interpretation is provided by CLT. All medical decisions are the sole responsibility of the pet’s primary care veterinarian. We also help our enrichment facility partners to provide a high level of hygiene through education on infection control procedures, awareness of the dangers of zoonoses and procedures to reduce infection risks wherever possible.
Our Mission
Our mission is to promote public health by elevating the wellbeing of dogs and the communities that care for them. We strengthen the human animal bond by making vital information more accessible, empowering better decisions, and strengthening the connection between pets, people, and care providers
Healthy Pets Healthy Packs
Canine Lab Testing is veterinarian-owned and operated. Our mission is to support doggy day care and group-play facilities in maintaining cleaner, healthier environments for the pets in their care through environmental surveillance strategies. We assist facilities by providing access to convenient fecal screening services, offering guidance on industry-standard sanitation practices, and helping centers develop successful infection control and prevention programs. We support One Health through the sharing of medical knowledge and promotion of public health with our partner facilities and their stakeholders to help ensure a safer environment.
Group play programs have grown dramatically in recent years, bringing many more dogs into close contact with one another. According to national data from the Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC), Giardia is detected in approximately 1 in 15 dogs in the United States, while hookworms and roundworms are detected in about 1 in 50.[1] With many facilities caring for hundreds of dogs, staying informed about potential parasite exposure is an important part of maintaining a responsible play environment.
[1] These statistics are presented for general educational context only.
While no one can guarantee any space will be entirely free of risk, routine screening helps facilities stay aware of potential concerns and respond appropriately. We help facilities understanding the mechanisms and types of contamination in day care settings to inform the techniques and selection of disinfectants, management of potentially contaminated equipment, and allow the facility to alert their client that they if their dog is positive to seek care from the pet’s clinical veterinarian. While non-clinical veterinarians associated with Canine Lab Testing provide facilities with environmental surveillance, cleaning and disinfection expertise we do not diagnose, treat, prescribe or provide case-specific medical advice to pet owns. We do not form a Veterinarian-Client-Patient Relationship. We function strictly as consultants to the facilities and do not offer pet owner support.
Pet owners are advised by the facility to share all results with their primary care veterinarian, who can determine the need for any examinations, treatments, prescription medications, or follow-up testing. Pet owners may choose to bring a fecal sample directly to their veterinarian or have one collected through their participating pet-care facility and are informed that no veterinary medical services are available nor does the submission of a sample to inform infection control procedures constitute a veterinarian-client patient relationship.
We understand that visiting a veterinary clinic solely to drop off a sample can be inconvenient for some pet owners, depending on schedules or location. Our goal is simply to make routine screening information readily available to our facilities, so they we can have timely information to help them the prevent (limit) the introduction and spread of diseases within the group of animals and care takers. We help our partners that are committed to a high level of hygiene and the health of dogs in their community.