Trust Me, I’m Not A Veterinarian

Over-vaccination – Dosage & Frequency
 
            Over vaccination is not merely a question of frequency but also dosage. The same rabies dosage is given to Scooby Doo as the Taco Bell Chihuahua!
            Does that make any sense?
 
            Emails like the one below to the Next To Kin Foundation (www.next2kin.org) are not untypical.
            But what you may [...]

Author Pens Pet Guardian Self-Defense Manual

Devoted dog owners know the dilemma – my dog is old and has health issues. I know he doesn’t feel great, but how should I know when to let him go to the big dog park in the sky?
 
 James D. Schwartz, a retired Colorado fee-only financial planner, knows [...]

The Real low Down on Pickin’ A Small Animal Veterinarian Part II 
 
            In writing the chapter ‘Pickin’ The Right Financial Planner..Lullabies, Legends & Lies for my previous editions of ENOUGH(sm): A Handbook for Your Personal Financial Planning, I dealt with the dilemma of interviewing the referral sources the planner provides the prospective client.
            The dilemma: the [...]

From the Intermountain Jewish News…
Chris Leppek review three new publications
Thursday, 25 September 2008 12:57 Chris Leppek
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This unusual compendium by former Colorado financial planner James D. Schwartz is many things packed into a relatively small package — a series of love stories (those of a man for his dogs), a loud statement of [...]

In another life, I was for 20 years a fee only financial planner and author.
During that period, I witnessed many complicated buy sell agreements, succession plans, as well as estate plans and pre-nuptial and post nuptial agreements.
Prior to leaving practice in 1996, more and more individuals and couples were providing for their companion animals in their wills [...]

At the end of August, posted in an Animal Hospital exam room on a bulletin board was an alert that in Colorado there had been two cases of skunk rabies.
However, in September of 2007 when the Center of Disease Control (CDC) announced that the United States was free of canine rabies, no such announcement then [...]

Eleven ago, Buddy was the first acupuncture patient of a veterinarian. Today, acupuncture is a substantial part of this veterinarian’s practice. Buddy’s acupuncture, then, however, was done on a ‘healthcare’ team basis – with this vet consulting with my then very experienced vet in acupuncture who was geographically too distant for the course of treatment [...]

A Review: The ‘Con’ in Vet Confidential by Louise Murray, D.V.M.
(By way of disclosure, yes, I have a recently released book titled: Trust Me: I’m Not A Veterinarian! - which is an antidote to misleading titles and books, in my opinion, like the one reviewed below)
Rather than it’s self proclaimed ‘insider’s guide to protecting your [...]

CENTENNIAL, Colo., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Former Colorado fee-only financial planner James Schwartz has done for over-vaccination of our pets what Jessica Mitford did for American funeral institutions in 1963 – a documented expose on the questionable practices, often at the expense of companion animals and their guardians. In his new book, “Trust Me, I’m [...]

The book, “Trust Me, I’m Not A Veterinarian” is now available through amazon.com!
The Last Book Your Small - Animal Veterinarian Wants You To Read!
A ‘Self Defense’ Manual for The Protection of Your Companion Animal from: overvaccination, pet insurance ripoffs, pet cemetery/crematorium abuses, slipshod companion animal disaster planning & ER mishap$
A Call To Paws - for [...]