Will CBD “De-Stress” Your Dog? – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

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Pet owners often get interested in CBD oil for the same reasons humans take this product. If customers aren’t drawn in by CBD’s anti-inflammatory benefits, chances are they want to use CBD to calm their canine’s nerves. Plenty of studies suggest CBD has tremendous anti-anxiety properties for people, so why wouldn’t these effects transfer to dogs?

Although there are countless success stories of using CBD oils to reduce pet anxiety, the scientific data on this topic is relatively low. While this doesn’t mean CBD can’t be effective for helping dogs de-stress, pet owners must recognize there are many unanswered questions about using CBD for this purpose.

To be frank, most of the studies looking into CBD for dog anxiety haven’t been super impressive. For instance, one study out of the University of Kentucky examined whether CBD affected a dog’s response to loud fireworks. In this trial, researchers gave participating pups a dose of CBD, trazodone, or trazadone and CBD. There were also a few dogs who took a placebo pill before the test began.

After giving the dogs a few minutes to settle down, scientists played loud fireworks noises and examined each dog’s behavior. Researchers also collected blood samples from the dogs to determine whether there were any stress biomarkers.

Trazodone was the only therapy that appeared to reduce the dogs’ fear response. Interestingly, CBD appeared to increase…