May is National Pet Month!
May Blog Post: Celebrating National Pet Month with Herbal Remedies for Pets
Jhoane Robinson, Herbalist, Co-Founder Cedar Bear Naturales
May is National Pet Month
Now is a great time to celebrate the furry, feathered, and four-legged companions who bring joy, comfort, and love into our lives. At Cedar Bear, we believe that pets as well as people deserve wellness support from natural, gentle, and effective sources.
Herbs have been used by humans for thousands of years to support health and balance in
the body. But did you know that many animals in the wild also use nature to self-medicate? This behavior, known as "zoopharmacognosy," involves animals selecting and using plants, soils, or insects with medicinal properties to treat or prevent illness, injury, or parasites. Your pets don’t have the same access to these natural cures in your home as they would in the wild. Cedar Bear has responded with natural formulations to help your pet achieve maximum wellness.
Whether your pet struggles with stress, digestion, joint discomfort, or immune challenges, certain herbs can offer gentle support without harsh chemicals or side effects, and we here at Cedar Bear take great pride in creating tasty, effective, alcohol-free liquid TincTracts® for your animal companions. Why is no-alcohol important? Because alcohol degrades the quality of the compounds being extracted from the herb, it degrades the formula’s quality and efficacy.
We care deeply for our animals, which is why we’ve recently expanded our pet remedy line to reintroduce some proven classics. These time-tested formulas were originally developed years ago by our founder and master formulator, L. Carl Robinson and have returned due to popular demand. Although we initially tried to simplify the line to just the essentials, the response from our loyal customers was so strong that we decided to bring back the full original collection.
Scroll on for a celebration of pets and herbal medicine through the ages, and specifically dogs and their connection to herbs throughout history, then read on for a rundown of our entire line of Cedar Bear pet remedies. Questions about administering and dosing for your pets?
We’ll cover that too!
With National Pet Month as the perfect backdrop, now is a great time to explore how herbal support can help your pets live healthier, happier lives.
Animals and Herbal Healing Through the Ages
For as long as humans have turned to plants for healing, they’ve shared that wisdom with the animals around them, and vice versa. Across cultures and centuries, the connection between herbal medicine and animal care runs deep-rooted in intuition, observation, and a reverence for the natural world.
Indigenous cultures around the world have long understood the profound healing power of herbs, passing down their knowledge through generations and refining the craft of herbal medicine over centuries.
As herbal knowledge spread through Europe and into the Americas, homesteaders in the 18th and 19th centuries continued the tradition of treating animals with plant-based remedies. On farms and frontier settlements, herbs were used to care for both humans and livestock alike.
These remedies were born of necessity—accessible, affordable, and passed down through generations as part of everyday life. Whether healing a sick child or a colicky goat, families relied on the same handful of trusted herbs to care for their whole household.
Animals as Allies: Dogs in Healing Traditions
In Native American traditions, certain tribes believe dogs possess the ability to sense illness and spiritual imbalance. Healers often pay close attention to the behavior of their dogs, who are known to seek out certain grasses, roots, or plants when unwell.
By watching which plants dogs choose to chew on to induce vomiting or soothe an upset stomach, Indigenous herbalists have gained insights over time into the medicinal properties of native herbs. In this way, dogs have acted as co-teachers in the healing journey throughout history and into the present, guiding humans toward the remedies offered by nature.
Medicine men and women often keep dogs not only as companions but as helpers in ceremony. These animals are seen as protectors—sensitive to energies unseen and capable of warning their human guardians of unseen dangers, including negative spiritual forces.
In other indigenous cultures, from the shamans of Siberia to the curanderos of South America, dogs are viewed as bridge-beings—living creatures that can cross the threshold between the physical and spiritual realms.
In a world that often separates science from spirit, human from animal, healer from nature, herbalism stands as a way to find common ground and connection. And dogs, with their deep, soulful presence, remind us that healing isn’t just about fixing what’s broken. It’s about
the interconnectedness of all life, intuition, and the ancient wisdom we all carry in our bones—whether we walk on two legs or four.
Safe & Gentle: Alcohol-Free Herbal Remedies for Animals
At Cedar Bear, we’re proud to offer alcohol-free liquid herbal supplements that are safe and easy to administer to both cats and dogs. Our proprietary TincTract® process preserves the full potency of herbs without using alcohol—making our formulas especially ideal for pets’ sensitive systems.
Re-Introducing the Expanded Cedar Bear Pet’s Line!
Like humans, our pets often need nutritional and direct-aid supplementation too. Herbs are all natural and gentle on the body. Giving herbal supplements to your pets is a great way to provide them with additional benefits that can help restore balance to their health.
Herbal Support for Organ Health
✔️Herbs that bring cooling relief.
✔️Soothe and tone the kidneys and bladder.
✔️Help fluids in the body move like they are supposed to.
✔️Piddle Dribbles? No more with Kidney Kool!
✔️Gentle enough for elderly pets, especially your feline friends, yet beneficial at any age!
✔️Helps protect and build your pet’s liver.
✔️Supports lifelong energy and wellness.
✔️Specially formulated as a daily use liver tonic.
✔️Contains herbs that strengthen and tone liver tissues.
✔️Gentle enough for both elderly and young pets and especially effective for dogs.
Herbal Support for Thyroid Health
✔️Important herb-based nutrients to support your pet’s thyroid, especially your canine friends.
✔️Supports iodine reserves.
✔️Helps balance endocrine function.
✔️️Weight gain, lethargy, cold intolerance, dull dry hair, dry itchy skin, thinning coat, excessive shedding? If any of these sound familiar, try Thyroid Boost for your pet today!
✔️Packed with thyroid-supporting herbs.
✔️Soothes and calms the nervous system.
✔️Strengthens the heart and liver, especially in elderly pets and cats specifically.
✔️Helps metabolism get back to normal.
✔️Weight loss, excessive thirst and urination, increased appetite, throwing up, can’t handle heat, lusterless coat? If any of these sound familiar, try Thyroid Calm!
Herbal Support for Joint Health
✔️Herbs that are packed with joint building nutrients to support optimal joint health.
✔️Herbs that help create proper fluid dynamics in and around the joints to help reduce pain ✔️Looking for a remedy that supports your pet’s comfort levels and even helps your pet to be able to jump, run, and climb stairs like a happy youngster again? Look no further!
Deeply Nourishing Herbal Support
✔️ Gentle liver and blood cleansing action.
✔️Supports digestive health with herbs that help stimulate the production of digestive juices.
✔️Helps build tissue strength in the digestive tract.
✔️Supports good immune function.
✔️Results?! A healthier pet and slicker, glossier skin and fur.
✔️Herb-based vital minerals that help build better health for your pets on all levels.
✔️Deeply nourishes on a cellular level for health and longevity.
✔️Strong enough for growing pups and gentle enough for daily use.
✔️Helps build strong bodies and strong teeth and bones for pets of all ages!
Herbal Support for the Nervous System
✔️Soothes nerves.
✔️Calms overactive behavior.
✔️Is your dog too bouncy, high-strung, tense, stressed, experiencing temporary anxiousness? If this sounds like your pet, give Calm Down a try today!
✔️It’s also great for overly nervous kitties and exotic pets and birds, too!
Herbal Immune Support
✔️Supports and activates digestive-related immune action.
✔️Helps soothe and build digestive function.
✔️Cools tissues throughout the body.
✔️Clears excess fluids from the respiratory and lymphatic systems issues throughout the body.
Acute Herbal Support
✔️Helps to hydrate dry, irritated tissues and soothe that dry, ‘barky’ cough, you know the one!
✔️Strengthens tissues throughout the respiratory system.
✔️Helps the immune system kick in and do its job better.
✔️Exposed to smoke, smog, dust, pollen? Excessive barking? Prolonged stays at the kennel, pet shows, doggie day cares, dog parks? End that cough with Calm the Cough today!
✔️Helps soothe sensitive, upset tummies and helps them feel better fast.
✔️Originally formulated for calming travel and motion-related queasy tummies, it works!
✔️Reduces gas/flatulence.
✔️Nervous tummy? Reach for Queasy Ease!
Cleansing Herbal Support
✔️Clears out environmental toxins from deep inside body tissues.
✔️Herb-based antioxidants that help clear health damaging free radicals.
✔️Herb-based minerals that help protect and build health.
✔️Formulated as a gentle yet effective long-term daily detox formula.
✔️ Conditions the blood and protects the liver.
✔️Gently helps to neutralize and clear your pets’ intestinal tracts of things they “pick up”.
✔️Positively shifts the environment of the digestive system in such a way that allows beneficial flora to flourish.
✔️Digestive distress, irritability, restlessness, dry skin, dull coat, anal itching? Reach for Cedar Bear’s Intestinal Cleanse for Pets (we have a human version, too if you are wondering - check out our Premium Line Intestinal Cleanse here)!
Dosing and Administering Cedar Bear’s Pet Remedies
General Dosing - ¼ tsp up to 3x per day.
Administering
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Mix into their water bowl.
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Mix into their food.
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Dogs and some other animals may allow you to put directly into their mouths.
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Cats can be gently snuggled in a towel to keep their claws at bay if you need to get a dose into their mouth.
For more information on our pet’s formulas, visit our pet’s section!
WHY CEDAR BEAR?
At Cedar Bear, we firmly believe in constant evolution as we formulate, and reformulate our proprietary TincTract® singles and blends. Throughout the years, we have brought numerous enhancements to the process itself in an effort to continue to bring the most cutting-edge, efficacious remedies to the market.
Building and supporting overall health, wellness, and vitality is a hallmark of Cedar Bear herbs. You will find that the support on a micro-nutritional level from Cedar Bear herbs brings astounding results not only for your mind, body, and soul, but for your pet’s as well.
It’s not just the herbs that make Cedar Bear herbal products so effective at supporting your pet’s overall health. When they are made with Cedar Bear’s special proprietary process called the TincTract®, (more than a tincture, and more than an extract, and works better than either!), Cedar Bear’s TincTract® process makes the herbs both bio-available and bio-utilizable, so every drop goes right to work supporting your pet’s health and well-being.
Best of all, the TincTract® process not only makes herbs work better, but they taste better, too! And, as always, all Cedar Bear® herbs are totally alcohol-free. They have only three things in them, herbs, glycerin, and water. Nothing else!
Contributing Author: Aubrey Loretta Connelly, BA, MH, NC
(These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.)
