How can hemp oil help my dog with stress?
When it comes to stress, here’s how small, I repeat SMALL, amounts of a good hemp extract can help our four-legged family members. This also applies to humans and anxiety.
Hemp Lively’s Whole Plant Hemp Oil for Pets contains CBD plus over 100 other naturally occurring cannabinoids such as CBG, CBN, CBC, and very small amounts of THC (<0.3%). The majority is CBD which is considered non-psychoactive (it doesn’t get you high). However, a portion of the minor cannabinoids and a few of the major cannabinoids such as Delta 8 and Delta 9 THC are psychoactive. Psychoactive cannabinoids will get you high if you take enough of them. In our whole plant hemp oil, there is a very, very small amount, not enough to get you high or feel anything immediately for that matter. So, how does it help with stress then?
Two things to remember.
- Dogs are smaller than humans and therefor do not need the same dose we take. (keep reading for doggy dosage instructions). If you give your dog too much of any cannabis product you will get them high and stress them out with a feeling they are not used to. It can be scary for them.
- Each cannabinoid has a different half life. A half life is the amount of time it takes for the body (human or dog) to get rid of half of what you took. CBD for example has a 2 day half life so most of it is in and our of your system in about 4 days. Most types of THC on the other hand have a 14 day half life and stay in your system about a month.
Let’s think about this for a moment. That means that if you’re taking a hemp oil every day or giving it to your dog every day, then those small amount of THC build up in your pets body over a months time. The small doses (if dosed properly) are not enough to cause intoxication. But after taking it daily for a month, the levels in your pets body have risen to an ample amount. Since you let their body slowly build up to this level, they don’t notice the high levels of the depressant that is now in their body. But when stress comes, your animal will not be nearly as agitated as usual because they now have a barrier built up as a defense for the anxiety they normally would experience, but no longer do.