Our Story
It started with a skipping stride.
Every bottle we make traces back to one dog, a question he kept nudging us toward, and a family that refused to accept that "that's just aging" was the whole answer.
Marley and Grace, somewhere in Europe, going faster than recommended.
Colin and Marley. The founder and the reason.
The dog who asked better questions.
Marley had patellar luxation, aging eyes, and a skipping stride that made everyone smile. He came everywhere with us. He rode scooters through Europe and traveled in a backpack like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Watching him age shifted something. Admiration became responsibility. And he nudged me, sometimes literally, into a world of biological curiosity I never expected to explore.
He nudged me toward Grace, too. My soulmate, my co-founder, my partner in all of it. Whatever else this page tells you about Marley, know that his judgment was never wrong.
What if delivery mattered more than dosage? What if fragile compounds could be protected before they degraded? Those were Marley's questions. AlchemyPet is the answer we built him.
Marley, mid-leap, in Switzerland. Yes, our logo is a leaping dog. No, that is not a coincidence.
Two rivers, one bottle.
The story actually starts long before Marley. I moved to Taiwan at sixteen, learned Mandarin, and grew up inside a culture where natural medicine was simply how people took care of each other. Later I built a distribution business across Asia, moving agricultural products between continents.
Natural medicine and distribution. Two threads that had nothing to do with each other, until a dog with a skipping stride tied them together.
When the search for answers led to Swiss delivery scientists and their microencapsulation work, everything I had learned in both worlds finally pointed at the same thing: the best ingredient on earth is worthless if it never arrives.
"We built the eye health formula for Marley. His eyesight improved. That is when I knew this had to exist for every dog."
Built for adventure, backed by science, carried in a backpack.
The first dog it ever worked for was the one who inspired it.
Most origin stories end with a promise. Ours ends with a result. We built the Clear Sight formula for Marley's aging eyes, protected the fragile actives with the cold-process microencapsulation the Swiss scientists had engineered, and his eyesight improved.
AlchemyPet is what Marley deserved from the beginning. Every formula since carries the same standard: clinically studied ingredients, protected until they arrive, and honest about what we know and what we are still proving.
Real science. Real love. Real results. He was the first. He will never be the last.
Three convictions in every bottle.
They sound simple. Almost nobody in this industry builds around them.
Absorption over dosage
The number on the label means nothing if the ingredient degrades before it can be used. Delivery is the difference between a promise and a result.
The gut is ground zero
When the gut barrier breaks down, absorption fails, immunity overreacts, and problems multiply. Most chronic issues start there, so that is where our science aims.
Healthspan, not just lifespan
More good years. Not simply more years. Every formula exists to extend the part of a dog's life that is worth wagging about.
Still a family thing.
AlchemyPet is run by Colin and Grace Topham, partners in life and in this company, with daughters Vivienne and London growing up around shipping boxes, and Edie, our dog, serving as the most demanding member of the quality control department.
We answer our own emails. We know our vets by name. And every formula still has to pass the only test that ever mattered: would we give this to our own dog, every single day?
Find what your dog deserves.
Answer a few questions and we will match your dog with the right formula. It takes about a minute, and Marley would approve.