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About HempMy Pet — Marc Brannigan and Natalie Mondine
We breed the genetics, grow the plants, press the oil and fill the bottles. Then we put it through university research and publish what it found — including the parts that were not flattering.
Who We Are
Marc co-founded HempMy Pet in 2016 and runs the company today. He commissioned and funded both of the university clinical trials described below, sources the genetics grown on the farm, and writes most of what appears on this site. He is not a veterinarian, and every article here says so.
Natalie co-founded the company with Marc in 2016 and runs operations. She oversees formulation and production standards and manages the community side of the brand — which means she is usually the one reading what customers actually write back.
How This Started
HempMy Pet did not begin as a pet company. We were making full-spectrum hemp oil for ourselves, from plants we grew, because we wanted to know exactly what was in it. Then we bottled some for our own animals — and that turned out to be a much less common thing to do in 2016 than it sounds now. It made us one of the first hemp and CBD products made specifically for pets.
Almost a decade later the approach has not changed. We still breed our own hemp genetics, still grow them on our Colorado farm using organic practices, and still formulate and bottle in-house under human-grade standards. Nothing is bought in bulk from a broker, and nothing is sourced overseas. That matters more than it sounds: hemp is a phytoremediator, meaning it pulls whatever is in the soil up into the plant, so where and how it is grown is not a marketing detail.
Why We Paid for Research
Most pet hemp brands cannot run a clinical trial even if they want to, because they buy extract from third parties and their product changes from batch to batch. Because we control the whole chain, we had one consistent oil to put in front of researchers. So we did.
- Dogs, with Colorado State University researchers. A 90-day trial of 37 dogs with chronic joint discomfort, overseen by veterinary pain specialist Dr. Robin Downing, DVM, MS, with Lori Kogan, Ph.D. and Peter W. Hellyer, DVM. Published in the Journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association.
- Horses, with Tarleton State University. Behavioral, dosing and transport work led by Dr. Kimberly Guay, Ph.D., P.A.S. at the Tarleton Equine Center, part of the Texas A&M University System.
We funded the work and supplied the oil. Per the canine journal's own disclosure statement, we had no input into the study design or the interpretation of results, and the authors declare no financial relationship with the company. You can read the full write-up of both trials, including the primary papers.
What We Publish, and What We Will Not
The part we care most about: we report findings that do not help us sell.
- Our own canine paper reports that alkaline phosphatase rose during the 90-day trial. We say so, in the articles where it is relevant, with the numbers.
- Press coverage of our equine work reported that CBD lowered cortisol during transport. The published abstract does not support that — the change was a numerical trend that did not reach significance. We corrected our own pages rather than leave the better-sounding version up.
- Our canine trial was an open-label pilot with no control group. We say that every time we cite it.
We are a supplement company, not a pharmacy, and we do not make disease claims. Nothing we sell is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and nothing on this site is veterinary advice. Where we write about prescription medications, it is to help you have a better conversation with your veterinarian — never to encourage you to change a prescription.
How to Reach Us
If something we have written is wrong, or conflicts with what your veterinarian tells you, we want to know. Email support@hempmypet.com or call 844-436-7691 and leave a message.
Start with the hemp oil for dogs range, see every batch's Certificate of Analysis, or read what other owners have written to us.
