Groovy Pup wants you to picture a simpler time: cheap music festivals, psychedelic color, and a certain famously chill recreational flower. Its flagship product, Sofi’s Secret Stash, is a line of CBD-infused dog treats named for the brand’s own mascot and self-appointed “Founder and Chief Treat Officer,” a Doodle named Sofi. It’s a charming bit, and the ’70s revival it’s riding, from festival fashion to nostalgic tours, is real. But strip away the tie-dye and you’re left with the only question that actually matters for your dog: does the CBD in these cookies do anything?
Increasingly, the research says: for some things, yes.
First, what’s actually in the cookie
Credit where it’s due, because the formulation is clean. Each Sofi’s Secret Stash cookie carries a short, legible ingredient list, built mostly on oat flour, almond butter, coconut oil, and apple sauce, with water and broad-spectrum CBD rounding it out, and about 20 milligrams of CBD per treat. The brand also notes its CBD is sun-grown outdoors, which trims the resources used to produce it.
The single most important word there is “broad-spectrum,” which in practice means no THC, the compound that gets people high. That’s the line that keeps a lot of nervous owners up at night, so it’s worth saying plainly: these treats will not intoxicate your dog. What CBD can do is something quieter and, based on recent evidence, more useful than the packaging suggests.
Where the science is genuinely encouraging
The strongest case for CBD in dogs right now is pain, specifically the aching joints of arthritis. A 2024 Cornell University study found that more than 80 percent of dogs with osteoarthritis showed a meaningful drop in pain and improved mobility on CBD compared with placebo, at doses in the range of 1 to 2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight twice a day, without serious side effects. For an older or stiff dog, that’s a real, measurable result rather than a vibe.
Anxiety is a more mixed picture, and it’s worth being precise about it. The evidence is best for situational stress, the kind triggered by a specific event. A Cornell chew study found that about 83 percent of dogs given CBD before a stressful situation showed fewer stress-related behaviors. For chronic, everyday behavioral anxiety, though, the results thin out; several studies have found no significant difference from placebo. A 2026 review in Frontiers in Veterinary Science that pooled 29 studies landed in the same place: promising for pain and situational anxiety, genuinely uncertain elsewhere, and limited throughout by small sample sizes, inconsistent dosing, and industry funding.
So Groovy Pup’s own framing, that the treats can calm a nervous or aging dog, isn’t marketing fantasy. It’s just more accurate for the dog who’s rattled by a thunderstorm or a car ride than for one who’s anxious as a baseline temperament.
How to think about dosing, and when to loop in your vet
Here’s where that 20-milligram number becomes practical. At the roughly 1-to-2-milligram-per-kilogram guideline, a single 20-milligram cookie sits in the range of a situational dose for a medium-sized dog, which is exactly the “give one before the fireworks” use case. That’s a starting point, not a prescription.
“CBD has moved from fringe to a real conversation in my exam room, and the arthritis data is the reason,” says Dr. Ravi Mehta. “But I want owners to treat these treats like a supplement with actual pharmacology, not a snack. Start low, watch for loose stool or sedation, and tell me your dog is on it, because CBD can interact with other medications and it’s processed by the liver. For situational nerves and stiff joints, I’m open to it. For a dog who’s anxious every single day, I’d rather we figure out why together first.”
Two practical footnotes: the FDA still has not approved any CBD product for pets, so quality and labeling vary widely between brands, which makes a clean, clearly dosed product more valuable, not less. And CBD is not a fix for pain or anxiety serious enough to need a diagnosis; it’s a tool that works best alongside a plan, not instead of one.
The part that’s easy to root for
One genuinely likable feature has nothing to do with cannabinoids. Buy a bag of Sofi’s Secret Stash and the brand gives one away too, sending its treats to a shelter or rescue in your name. The logic is thoughtful: dogs waiting for homes frequently carry anxiety or reactivity that lowers their odds of adoption, and taking the edge off that nervousness could help a dog show better to a potential family. Whether or not the CBD moves the needle for your own dog, that’s a giveback worth a nod.
Groovy Pup sells Sofi’s Secret Stash directly rather than through Amazon, so there’s no affiliate link to tag here; if you try it, you’ll be buying from the brand and, per its model, funding a bag for a shelter dog in the process.
