My name is Dr. Thomas Graumann.
I'm 42 years old, a veterinary behaviorist – and I'm no longer ashamed to tell this story.
At 38, I was sitting in my clinic wondering what had happened to veterinary medicine. I kept treating the same dogs. Anxiety that came back every few weeks.
Owners spending thousands on anti-anxiety medications and sedatives that changed nothing in the long run. I was prescribing medications that helped short-term and failed long-term. And then my own dog – a 7-year-old Labrador – developed exactly the chronic separation anxiety I was treating in my patients. I tried everything I recommended to my clients.
Trazodone. Prozac. Xanax. Calming treats. Behavior modification. Nothing worked.
One evening I called my longest-standing colleague: Dr. Jennifer Martinez. We've known each other since veterinary school. She's 45, a behavioral specialist, and runs her own practice. I told her the truth.
And she replied: "Thomas, I experience exactly the same thing in my clinic every single day."
That was the moment we decided we would no longer accept this. Not as veterinarians. And not as dog owners.
We began researching – not for our clients, but for our own dogs. We knew sedatives weren't the solution. Short-term effect, side effects, no real healing. We knew calming treats were too weak – they don't repair the gut barrier from the inside out.
So we asked ourselves: What if the solution isn't suppressing anxiety symptoms, but instead addresses the problem directly where it originates – at the gut barrier repair on a cellular level?
We came across collagen peptides. Studies on gut-brain axis restoration. The connection between gut barrier integrity and the lasting resolution of chronic anxiety.
In Jennifer's practice, we developed the first version. We tested it on our own dogs. After three weeks, Jennifer called me.
"Thomas, my dog's anxiety is resolving. For the first time in two years he's actually calm and staying calm. The pacing has stopped."
Two weeks later I experienced the same. My Labrador's trembling, which had previously been constant, disappeared. His panting stopped. He stopped pacing anxiously. That was the moment we knew: this isn't just for our own dogs.
Today we stand behind Derma Paws – not as businesspeople, but as two veterinarians who went through exactly the same thing you have. We know what it feels like to watch your dog suffer from anxiety. We know what it's like to spend thousands on treatments that fail. We know what it's like to wonder: Will my dog ever feel calm again?
Yes. He will.
Derma Paws is not an ordinary company. It is what we wished had existed when we watched our own dogs suffer.
Calm behavior. No more pacing. Wellbeing. And the feeling of finally having your happy, relaxed dog back.
We made it happen. Your dog can heal too.
– Dr. Thomas Graumann & Dr. Jennifer Martinez, Veterinary Behaviorists