drank Doggy Tea by 52teas
133 tasting notes

After a slight snafu with the postal system, my order from 52teas arrived earlier this afternoon. I’m particularly excited about this specific order because I threw in a bag of Doggy Tea for the furkids!

While I’m certainly no doctor, I do know after researching “valerian root” that its used as a sedative for nervous tension and excitability. Oskar (dachshund) and Sammie (chiweenie) both feed off each other’s crazy excited outbursts, no matter the situation. And there’s a storm a comin’ from the west… so with these two issues I’m looking forward seeing if this calms them down any.

First human impressions: It looks like small pieces of straw with broken pieces of dried passion flower. Smells like straw with a hint of smokiness.

First canine impressions: Both agree that Mommy described it accurately. It gets 3 sniffs per pup and 4 lip licks each – a good sign!

After brewing a half tsp. in 6 oz. of boiling water for 3 minutes the water is clear yellow with more of a smoky smell. We let is cool to a tasty 110º. (No burnt tongues here!)

Sammie tried it first after giving the cooled tea a good whiff – there was lots of lapping, followed by the licking of lips. He likes it! Seconds and thirds were had as well! :)

It took a lot more coaxing for Oskar to try it. He took a couple of polite sips, but hasn’t gone back for more.

Preparation
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Kittenna

Did you take a sip yourself?!

Will Work For Tea

I did! It’s a different taste – not horrible, but something I could understand dogs liking. There’s a smokiness in the background, but the foreground is very much straw and oats.

Kittenna

Interesting! Keep us updated on whether it does actually calm your puppies or not :)

Will Work For Tea

The rain has started – Oskar just went to hide in the back bedroom where my husband’s clothes are. That’s his comfort spot when daddy’s not around, but not scared enough to come to me. (He’s daddy’s boy.) Sammie’s going back and forth between Oskar and me. (Sams is mommy’s boy.)

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Kittenna

Did you take a sip yourself?!

Will Work For Tea

I did! It’s a different taste – not horrible, but something I could understand dogs liking. There’s a smokiness in the background, but the foreground is very much straw and oats.

Kittenna

Interesting! Keep us updated on whether it does actually calm your puppies or not :)

Will Work For Tea

The rain has started – Oskar just went to hide in the back bedroom where my husband’s clothes are. That’s his comfort spot when daddy’s not around, but not scared enough to come to me. (He’s daddy’s boy.) Sammie’s going back and forth between Oskar and me. (Sams is mommy’s boy.)

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I’m a native Midwesterner (Iowa, specifically) who was happily uprooted to California twice. SoCal is what I consider home, even though I currently don’t live there. I hope to return home again!

Tea has really come to fill the void of my current displacement. My husband & I (with our two tiny weenies) moved to Indiana hardly knowing a soul. It’s been a tougher transition for me than I’d thought it would be. I have amassed a cupboard of teas to keep me company until I feel more familiar in my newer surroundings.

I will refrain from giving numerical values to teas because I am a faddist. My likes and dislikes are constantly changing. Flavored blacks are what I gravitate to the most. Having said that, I do enjoy a wide variety of teas – you name it, I’ll try it. I may not like it today, but I might revisit it later and love it.

Flavor note: I prefer my teas to be bold in flavor. I am starting to come around to drinking tea without additives. But I do like to dirty my tea with rock sugar/simple syrup and sometimes with half-n-half/milk. Unflavored greens are unsweetened, but flavored greens I usually add rock sugar. Lately I have been favoring flavored guayusa and matés.

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