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Make A Difference By Choosing Hemp Products For Your Dog or Cat.

Fashionable, functional and durable! This Hemp Pet Carrier has UV mesh panels to provide UV protection, an exterior water bottle pocket and a washable fleece covered pad. Travel bowl and fleece blanket are included.

Available Sizes: Large fits pets up to 25 pounds.

Hemp is known for being sustainable, biodegradeable and incredibly strong. To learn more about Hemp, read the facts below.

About Hemp:
Hemp is a sustainable/biodegradable crop; it grows well without the aid of herbicides, fungicides or pesticides. Hemp yields twice as much fiber as cotton per acre. Just 1 acre of Hemp yields 3-8 tons of fiber, four times what an average forest yields.

Construction products like medium fiber board, strand board, beams, studs and posts can be made out of hemp. Hemp’s long fibers create a much stronger and lighter product, than those made from wood. Hemp can replace wood fiber and save forests for watershed, wildlife habitat, recreation, oxygen production & carbon sequestration—reducing global warming! Hemp can be grown in most climates and is tolerant of a wide range of conditions, as well as a high degree of salinity in the soil.

Hemp oil can lubricate machines. Most paints, resins, shellacs and varnishes used to be made out of linseed (flax) and hemp oils. All petrochemical-based products, as well as plastics, can be made from hemp oil. BMW is experimenting with hemp materials in automobiles as part of an effort to make cars more recyclable. Hemp can produce a clean burning fuel.

Durability & Health Facts
Fabrics made of at least one-half hemp block the sun’s UV rays more effectively than other fabrics. Hemp is an amazingly durable fabric. When washed it constantly reveals a new surface, becoming softer with use. Hemp fabric rapidly absorbs moisture, which accounts for its coolness and comfort when used for clothing or bedding. Due to its strength when wet, it does not weaken with washing. Carpets and rope can be made of the hemp’s thicker, stronger fiber. The finest hemp fiber is delicate enough to be woven together with silk.

Kimberly Clark, on the Fortune 500, has a mill in France that produces hemp paper preferred for bibles due to its superior archival quality for both longevity and anti-yellowing.

Hemp seed and oil is an excellent source of protein. At a volume level of 81%, hemp oil is the richest known source of polyunsaturated essential fatty acids, Omega-6 & Omega-3. It is also high in gamma linoleic acid (GLA), a rare nutrient found in mother’s milk.

History of Hemp
Hemp has been grown for at least 12,000 years for fiber (textiles/paper) and food. Due to its importance for sails (the word “canvas” is rooted in the word “cannabis”) and rope for ships, hemp was a required crop in the American colonies.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper.

The federal government subsidized hemp during WWI and US farmers grew about one million acres of hemp for that program. A 1938 Popular Mechanics article described hemp as a “New Billion Dollar Crop”. When US sources of “Manilla hemp” (not true hemp), used for rope and cordage, was cut off by the Japanese in WWII, the US Army & US Department of Agriculture promoted the “Hemp for Victory” campaign to grown hemp in the USA.