Scared Poopless: The Straight Scoop on Dog Care by Chiclet T. Dog & Jan Rasmusen

Scared Poopless: The Straight Scoop on Dog Care by Chiclet T. Dog & Jan Rasmusen

This is a MUST read book for everyone who shares their life with a beloved pet. Besides for being eye-openingly informative, the book is witty, funny and exceedingly well written. What began with a desperate search to save her dog's life, ended with life-changing and life-saving information she now shares with everyone who reads her book. The book will shock you, make you laugh, make you re-think common dog care practices and It Just Might Save Your Dogs Life!

Scared Poopless is the 2006 Winner of the Ben Franklin Award for Best Health Book of the past year! It placed first in the category of Health (Wellness/Nutrition). In the competitions 21-year history, it is the first book for non-humans which has ever even been a Health finalist, let alone a winner!

Scared Poopless Gives You A Crash Course In Dog!

Each chapter of Scared Poopless is a standalone mini-book. Devour it in one sitting, read a chapter every night or use it as a reference guide for when specific problems pop up. Scared Poopless can teach you in a few evenings what took the author two years to learn after her dog Jiggy's initial diagnosis, and after she spent thousands of dollars on vet bills and lab fees. Then she had a long talk with a new vet and woke up. This vet taught her that dogs are genetically very similar to humans and have many of the same biological needs you and I have. Unfortunately, myths and misinformation, much of it perpetuated for commercial reasons, have convinced all of us otherwise. We've come to see dogs as complicated creatures, and ourselves as too uninformed or lazy to keep them alive and healthy without help. We've learned to rely on "professionals" to make even the smallest decisions and we follow their advice without question. Well, that's just plain crazy!

If you know how to keep a human relatively healthy, you're 75% there to keeping your dog alive and well. Knowledge is the answer. That's why Jan Rasmusen started her research. Unfortunately, the more she researched what passes for canine "care," the angrier she became. And the angrier she became, the more research she felt compelled to do. Through in-person interviews, phone calls and e-mail correspondence, Ms. Rasmusen picked the brains of some of the most influential veterinarians and dog-care experts in the country. The list of contacts is a Who's Who of innovative canine care-givers and respected veterinarians. To check out their credentials click here. All these impossibly busy people helped her without charge! All because they share her passion to see things change. And please note that though the book was written about dog care, many of these same principles apply to our beloved feline friends as well.

In Jan's Own Words:

Five years ago I gave my two "furry kids" the very best care possible-or so I thought. They ate a top brand of "natural" pet food, were "up-to-date" on their shots and always protected with monthly heartworm and flea meds. Not for one moment did I suspect that my good intentions were harming my dogs! Then everything changed when my dog Jiggy (the cover model) contracted a life-threatening disease. Research into his illness, and into the care I'd been giving, made me so furious I felt compelled to share my findings in a book. That book is Scared Poopless: The Straight Scoop on Dog Care. Whether you have a healthy new pup, an ailing old canine friend or something in-between, this book will open your eyes to the dirty little secrets of dog care and improve your dog's chances of staying (or getting) healthy and safe. Looking back on how naive I was makes me shudder. I still kick myself for being so gullible, for taking conventional "wisdom" as fact, for not listening to my "gut," for not questioning even the most preposterous advertising copy. (Singing puppies? Dancing dogs? Please.) As a former Manhattan computer executive used to dealing with the heads of Fortune 100 companies, I understood the cold, manipulative world of marketing and business. What I didn't realize was how much I'd been brainwashed! Unfortunately, just as health care for humans has become more and more about profits and less and less about patients' needs, so has the $36 billion pet care industry. Think about it. How did you learn what you know about caring for your dog? Was it from someone trying to sell you something?

Note from Well Beings: Unfortunately, someone trying to sell you something can include many veterinarians. A good example is the huge number of vets recommending prescription diets-whose makers by the way-teach the nutrition classes at many major veterinary universities and this is often the only nutritional training a vet may get-does conflict of interest come to mind?!

Annual vaccinations are another easy sell-think about it, how else do they get you in the door on a regular basis (though as good and responsible guardians we should schedule annual [ every 6 months for seniors] check-ups for preventative care and diagnostics). And by the way isn't it interesting that us humans don't get annual vaccinations. Are we to believe that humans are somehow super disease fighting beings and our animals systems are so weak they need constant boosters to remain healthy. Now I understand the types of things our animals are vaccinated against are different than us, it just seems totally illogical and improbable that they need constant revaccination when we do not. You'll learn alot about this topic in the book.

Other big "sellers" include manufacturers of flea and heartwork medications and the huge conglomerates that make all the cute commericials telling us that their kibble is all your pet ever needs to eat to be healthy (the complete and balanced myth) Never mind that cats don't even have the enzymes necessary to breakdown carbohydrates in dry food so how healthy can that be? To give a human example, Total cereal is touted as having 100% of most daily vitamins and minerals and it IS a healthy breakfast cereal, but how healthy do you think a person would be if that's ALL THEY ATE EVERY DAY, DAY AFTER DAY-you get the idea. Remember the old saying, "Variety is the spice of life" there's more than one meaning to that statement. For more information on commercial pet food click here.

Don't Waste Time and Money On Products and Services That Could Actually Be Harming Your Dog!

What You'll Learn:

• Most people vaccinate their dogs completely inappropriately. Recommendations have completely changed in recent years. Learn which vaccines the top immunologists recommend ... which ones they DON'T recommend ... and when to revaccinate. Failure to vaccinate properly can cause disease, autoimmune dysfunction, allergies, seizures, and even death! Ask your vet about a titer test to check for antibodies which signal immunity.
• Find out what's really in commercial pet food and how it could be harming your dog and then discover quick and easy ways to improve your dog's diet and health without breaking your budget or wearing yourself out. Click here. Or here.
• Learn what supplements every dog should take to build and maintain health (hint: your dog is not getting these in pet food!)
• Discover how a common practice might be causing your dog's allergies
• Your dog's medications might be toxic-even life threatening. Learn how you can easily check them out BEFORE there's a problem
• Discover how to prevent the accidents that injure and kill hundreds of dogs every day
• Learn the truth about your dogs' ugly tear stains, bad breath and brown teeth and how they can be related to toxicity and disease
• Find out why your chubby dog must go on a diet now and how to help him lose weight. And this isn't half of what you'll learn!

What you learn will change you and your dog's life forever!