Jan R. Healthy Living Professional

San Diego, California
Hi. I am Jan Rasmusen, author, lecturer, newsletter writer, and dog health and safety advocate. I... Full Bio
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Rabies Vaccine Injection-Site Tumors by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Zsazsa and her Injection-Site TumorA Chihuahua named Zsazsa developed a large injection-site fibrosarcoma after a rabies shot. Looking for information, Angel Moran (Zsazsa&rs ... Read on »
Help with Vet Bills by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Looking for a list of organizations that help people in need withtheir vet bills?Dr. Jean Hofvehas allowed me to reprint it here.Please bookmark this page and send it to frien ... Read on »
Facts about Lead Content in Pet Supplements by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health On 10-09-09, I received an e-mail in response to my post Pet-Tabs Multivitamin: Alert! The e-mail was from Todd Dean, National Sales & Marketing Manager, OTC Products ... Read on »
Protecting Dogs From Vaccine Reactions by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Unless a vaccine reaction is strong and immediate, most people – and a shocking number of vets – don’t connect a new or worsened health problem to a shot, le ... Read on »
Vaccinating Small Dogs: Risks Vets Aren’t Revealing by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health At last, a smoking gun … discovered pointing directly at Chihuahuas, Dachshunds, Maltese, Yorkies and other small dogs … in fact, pointed at all dogs receiving m ... Read on »
Combination Shots for Dogs: Weapons of Over-Vaccination by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Whombo combos, mumbo jumbos: that’s what veterinarians who understand immunology call combination shots. Unlike a vaccine such as rabies, which contains a single virus, ... Read on »
Pet-Tabs Multivitamin: Alert! by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health I received this e-mail from Dr. R. J. Russell regarding Pet-Tabs, a multivitamin made by Pfizer and widely sold. It concerns a report made by ConsumerLab, a subscription tes ... Read on »
Treating Adverse Vaccine Reactions by Jean Dodds, DVM by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health World-renowned pet vaccination expertDr. Jean Doddshas written a wonderful article on managing and treating adverse reactions to vaccination (published here with her permissio ... Read on »
Dry Dog Food: Safely Handling and Storing Kibble by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Do you feed your dog or cat dry commercial pet food? Do you know that there are special ways to handle and store it? Here’s some excellent advice Chelsea of Hero&rsquo ... Read on »
Vaccinating Safely: Does Your Vet Take Every Precaution? by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Most people treat vaccination of their pets as fairly routine — until something horrible happens. Then it quickly becomes apparent that vaccination is a serious medical ... Read on »
Is Your Dog’s Vet a Vaccination Expert? by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Sasha, whose death by over-vaccination prompted activismSome veterinarians are wonderful. Others, not so much.Every day — almost hourly – I hear stories of careles ... Read on »
Dog Food: 10 Scary Truths by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health 40% of dogs are obese. 46% of dogs and 39% of cats now die of cancer. Heart, kidney and liver disease are epidemic. Like people, dogs are what they eat. Save your dog a lot of ... Read on »
Vaccinating A Stray Dog: Which Shots and When? by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Question:“We found a stray dog and so we have no idea what her vaccination history is or even if she has been spayed. She is probably about a year old at the most&hellip ... Read on »
Is Your Dog Stressed Out?: Locate and Eliminate Hidden Stressors by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health O ur pets’ lives are too often filled with hidden stresses that challenge their health and longevity. In addition to common stressors like highly processed commercial ... Read on »
Dog Flu Vaccine: Do You Need a Shot for the H3N8 Virus? by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health The flu is coming! The flu is coming! Be afraid … be very afraid.This time the flu is headed for our beloved dogs. It’s the flu that killed racing greyhounds in ... Read on »
Rabies Vaccine Skin Reaction: Ischemic Dermatopathy by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Rabies-vaccine-induced Ischemic Dermatopathy forced the retirement of Peaches from competition. See the disease on her haunch and ears.Peaches, Judy Shor’s champion agil ... Read on »
Changing Rabies Vaccination Laws by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Kris Christine, Founder of the Rabies Challenge Fund with renowned vaccination expert Dr. Jean Dodds, is the person most responsible for changing rabies laws from one or two ... Read on »
Over-Vaccinating Dogs by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Thanks to Dr. Michael Dym, a homeopathic veterinarian, for sending me this article.Michael Dym, VMDFor the past several decades, the conventional standard of practice has been ... Read on »
Heartworm Medication Part 2: Options to Fear-Based Recommendations by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health If you haven’t read Part 1 of this article, “ Heartworm Medication: Truths, Omissions and Profits,” please read it now unless you completely understand how a ... Read on »
Heartworm Medication Part 1: Truths, Omissions and Profits by Jan R. Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Posted in: Blog Posts in Pet Health Heartworms are Spread by Mosquitoes. Heartworm Meds are Spread by Fear.It’s getting warmer outside — time for sellers of heartworm medications to start scaring you ... Read on »