07/25/2025
💯 It didn’t start in a polished office or with a safety net.
👉It started in a kitchen, after 14-hour overnight emergency vet tech shifts,
with blistered feet, a racing heart, and a calling too loud to ignore.
I was an emergency veterinary technician by trade, and a veterinary cannabis counselor in training, under Dr. Andre while the rest of the world slept. 💚
🐾In the quiet hours between exhaustion and sunrise, I began formulating these treats—by hand, by gut, by soul.
👉I moonlit at a dispensary, slinging answers to the curious and the desperate. After hauling weekend overnights at the veterinary ER.
I spoke on the CE circuit, teaching doctors and techs, giving lectures with shaking hands and unshakable conviction. 🙌
💥Before I even had packaging, veterinarians and dispensaries were ordering my product—word of mouth lit the fuse.
Then there was Truman. 👀
The night I spoke to his mom—when she told me his tumor was shrinking—I dropped to my knees and wept on the floor.
👉That wasn’t just a win.
That was proof of purpose.
I did all this just after flying to Africa, to train the next wave of vet techs under Dr. Quam.
🙏 My life has never asked for ease, yet it has demanded courage, sweat, and absolute ferocity.
I've been smiled at and sabotaged,
praised and discredited,
copied, critiqued, underestimated—and still I rose. ⭐️
👉 I’ve made enemies out of important people,
and some not-so-important ones, too. I've battled law changes, smear campaigns, the fears of some doctors and the lies of pharma reps.
Still—I never stopped.
Because I’m not just running a company.
I’m running a revolution.
🐕 Every dog, every human in the Hippie Hounds family, they are the reason I won't give up. To give dogs access to the highest quality h**p products possible, offering them healing the natural way.
This is a brand built with blistered hands and a lion heart. 🦁❤️
💚I didn’t climb a ladder—I carved one with a bone saw.
👉So when they ask you how did Hippie Hounds get started— say it like thunder.
👏Andrea Harris👏
