Jan Allegretti – Bio (156 words)

Jan Allegretti, D.Vet.Hom, has been a consultant in holistic health care for nonhuman animals for more than 35 years. She works with home caregivers, shelter and rescue organizations, and veterinary professionals throughout the United States and internationally, and is the author of The Complete Holistic Dog Book: Home Health Care for Our Canine Companions and The Fresh & Flexible™ Meal Plan: The Easiest, Most Nutritious Way to Feed Your Dog and Cat. Her work has been published in professional and trade publications including the International Animal Health Journal, the Journal of the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy, and Vegan Life Magazine.

Jan is deeply committed to animal advocacy, writing and working to foster a better relationship between humans and other species. Supporting caregivers in offering their companion animals healthy, home-prepared meals and, when possible, a vegan diet, is a natural melding of Jan’s work as a healer and as an advocate for animals of all species.

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Jan Allegretti – Bio (387 words)

Jan Allegretti, D.Vet.Hom, has been a consultant and educator in holistic health care for nonhuman animals for more than 35 years, specializing in nutrition, homeopathy, and lifestyle assessment. She is the author of The Holistic Animal Health Series, which includes the bestselling The Complete Holistic Dog Book: Home Health Care for Our Canine Companions, a comprehensive manual for health and healing through nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine, and a supportive home environment; and The Fresh & Flexible™ Meal Plan: The Easiest, Most Nutritious Way to Feed Your Dog and Cat, an innovative approach to feeding home-prepared meals based on the same principles we use to eat a healthy diet ourselves. She is the founder of Holistic Animal Health and Advocacy, working with home caregivers, shelter and rescue organizations, and veterinary professionals throughout the United States and internationally through private consultations, workshops, and as a speaker at conferences and outreach events. Her work has been published in professional and trade publications including the International Animal Health Journal, the Journal of the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy, and Vegan Life Magazine.

Jan is deeply committed to animal advocacy, writing and working to foster a better relationship between humans and other species. In 2006 and 2007 she successfully led a coalition to prevent the building of a slaughterhouse in her community; in 2007 co-founded the Mendocino County, California, animal advocacy organization CARE: Compassion for Animals, Respect for the Earth; and has been nominated for the American Red Cross (Sonoma and Mendocino Counties) Real Heroes Award in the Animal Category.

Supporting caregivers in offering healthy, home-prepared meals and, when possible, a vegan diet, to companion animals is a natural melding of Jan’s work as a healer and as an advocate for animals of all species. She finds great enjoyment in empowering humans to integrate their compassion into all aspects of their relationships with other animals—and in seeing the animals they care for thrive as a result. Her commitment to enhancing awareness and relationship among all species is evident in her writing, including her book Listen to the Silence: Lessons from Trees and Other Masters and the extensive library of articles archived on her website, HolisticAHA.com.

Jan lives in the hills of northern California, where she shares her mountaintop home with the resident deer, ravens, coyotes, rattlesnakes, bears, jackrabbits, toads, and countless other wise and wild ones.