The Critical Kitten Window: Practical Microbiome Medicine Protocols (On Demand Webinar)

Course overview

This webinar provides veterinarians with a practical, evidence-informed framework for applying microbiome medicine during the critical early-life period in kittens. Focusing on the post-weaning and early pediatric window, the session explains how diet transitions, stressors, antibiotics, and growth demands interact to shape gut function, resilience, and clinical outcomes. Drawing on recent kitten studies and relevant feline and comparative data, the lecture introduces decision-making protocols to help clinicians distinguish expected transitional GI signs from situations requiring nutritional intervention. Particular emphasis is placed on when a standard kitten diet is appropriate versus when a therapeutic GI diet is biologically justified, including post-antibiotic recovery and multi-stressor contexts. Attendees will leave with clear, practice-ready decision frameworks, monitoring cues, and nutrition-based strategies to support gut resilience, reduce unnecessary escalation, and improve outcomes during this vulnerable developmental window.