Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will probably recognize the name Jana Rade. If you don’t recognize Jana’s name, you might recognize Jasmine, Jana’s beautiful Rottweiler. Jana shared Jasmine’s story with us in a four part series. If you haven’t read the story already, it’s worth your time to visit it now.
Jana Rade, Jasmine and the Dawg Business Blog
I’ve had the pleasure of calling Jana a personal friend for a while now. I’ve featured Jana’s story about Jasmine here on my blog and I’ve written guest posts for her blog. Now it’s time to formally recognize Jana’s blog, Dawg Business as one of my featured blogs.
In all honesty, Jana’s blog is one of my favorites and has been for a while now. I can honestly say that it would be very difficult to find someone more dedicated to helping pets and their people than Jana. Through a series of calamities with Jasmine, who has experienced some serious health issues over the past several years, Jana has come to realize the value in becoming an active part of Jasmine’s health care team. She carries over her knowledge and her dedication to helping pet owners in her Dawg Business blog.
Jana’s primary message, which she carries throughout her blog is this: In the end, maintaining your pet’s health is up to you. She helps pet people do that by encouraging them to think for themselves and ask questions when it comes to their pet’s health.
Though Jana has had no formal training in veterinary medicine, she is nevertheless an avid learner and voracious reader. When faced with a medical question, she not only scours the web looking for answers but also calls on her ever-expanding circle of veterinary friends to help answer her question. She is careful not to pass along incorrect information, but she is not afraid to question conventional wisdom and ask the question “why” either.
All of the veterinary articles that Jana features on her Dawg Business blog are fact-checked by one veterinarian or another. I know this from personal experience because she has asked me to do this for her on occasion. (And I am always glad to help her because I strongly support her message and her endeavors to pass that message along.)
Dawg Business Topics: Disease Information, Book Reviews, Fund Raising and More
Dawg Business covers a variety of topics. Among the veterinary medical information Jana has passed along recently is:
- Collie Nose: Discoid Lupus Erythematosus in Dogs
- Your Dog and Leptospirosis
- Why Integrative Veterinary Medicine?
This is only a small sampling. She also features reviews, such as her recent review of Edie Jarolim’s book “Am I Boring My Dog?”.
An Example of Dedication to Pets and Pet Owners
What happens when Jana becomes aware of a pet with major medical problems that still needs care and a pet owner who cannot afford that care? She begins a campaign to raise money to contribute to the care of that pet. This was the case with Ella, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who suffers from syrinogmyelia.
Ella was diagnosed and treated for syringomyelia previously and initially seemed to recover well. However, recently, Ella began exhibiting symptoms of the disease again. Ella’s veterinarian informed Annie that Ella required another MRI and possibly an additional surgery. The problem though is that Annie had already exhausted all of her financial resources through caring for Ella’s initial problems. She had nothing left to left to help Ella this time.
Enter Jana who, together with several friends she enlisted to help (myself included), began to blog about Ella’s plight, tweet her case, talk about her on facebook pages and spread the word any other way she could. That campaign successfully raised enough money to pay for Ella’s upcoming MRI which, thanks in large part to Jana’s efforts, is now scheduled for Wednesday, September 1. We are all anxiously awaiting the results of that MRI and praying for Ella’s recovery. But without Jana’s help, that MRI would likely not have been possible.
Hopefully, by now you’re convinced you should go visit Jana’s Dawg Business blog. So go ahead. (Hint: there’s a lot of information there, so plan on spending some time. You might even want to bookmark the site.) And when you’re done at Dawg Business, come on back here and check out some of the blogs in our Pet Lover’s Blog Hop. As usual, there are a lot of great blogs in the hop and it would be a shame to miss any of them.
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Lorie, I am honored to be your friend and humbled by your article. ((( )))
You deserve every word, Jana. Keep up the good work
I’m honored to call you my friend too!
I checked out Jana’s blog and absolutely loved it. Having been thru a similar situation where my dog was not diagnosed for years…actually never really was, her message hits home. I am happy I found your blog and hers! I am new to the blogging world, so just working my way thru things.
Welcome, Rebecca.
Yes, Jana is quite a woman. She’s someone I truly admire and her blog is excellent.
I hope you enjoy being part of the blogging community. The pet blogging community in particular is a wonderful group of people. If you have a pet related blog, please feel free to post it here so we can all enjoy it
Rebecca, sorry about your dog not being diagnosed. Some things are not easy to diagnose. I have learned to keep pushing and looking for answers until one is found.
Thank you Lorie and Rebeca for the kind words about my blog.
It’s nice to see pet lovers and dog owners sharing their thought and experiences with their pets. Nice to have found this blog.
@selfreliantguy: Welcome and thanks for visiting. I think it’s important that we all share our experiences with our pets, positive and negative. It becomes especially important important when other pet owners can learn from our experiences.