The disposition of doxycycline by man and dog was investigated with the aid of labeled drug. Isotope dilution methods were instrumental in the successful identification of fecal excretion products. More than 90% of dose was recovered as undegraded drug from urine and feces of both species, but some labeled doxycycline was excreted by dogs in antibacterially inactive form. Dogs appear to eliminate most of intravenously administered doxycycline by secretion into the intestinal tract, by a route different from biliary secretion. It is inferred from these results that the lack of doxycycline accumulation observed by other investigators in patients with impaired renal function is probably due to elimination of unchanged drug with feces, and not the result of extensive metabolic degradation.