THE MARIJUANA CHEMICAL THAT CHILLS ANXIOUS DOGS OUT
Ichigo, a Yorkshire Terrier-poodle mix, hadn’t been himself recently.
His owner, Krishaniana Jimenez, a student and retail employee who lives in the Bronx, had fractured her ankle, and since then, her dog sat anxiously or paced “like a man waiting for his child to be born.”
“It could be a regular night,” Jimenez says, “and Ichigo was bugging out.”
She took him to a veterinarian named Dr. Steve Katz who recommended sprinkling a formula containing cannabidiol (CBD), a chemical found in marijuana and industrial hemp, over Ichigo’s food. Since then, Jimenez says Ichigo’s pacing has stopped and his focus has returned.