Bentley
A 20+page recovery guide, a founding membership, and why the work that built this publication will always come back to our furry companions.
A friend’s dog just got out of the hospital. He’s stable — but stable isn’t healed.
His name is Bentley. He’s a four-year-old beagle. Regenerative anemia. GI disease. Gallbladder disease. Possible tick-borne infection. Six medications. A blood transfusion. A body that’s been through hell and a long road ahead.
I reached out to her today and asked if I could help. Could she send me his lab work, his current diet, his medications, his daily routine — everything?
She did. And I got to work.
Liver enzymes nearly five times the upper limit. Six medications running through a system that was already compromised. A gut that has been struggling long before this crisis. His veterinary team did extraordinary work — they stabilized him, managed the acute episode, and gave him a blood transfusion to keep him alive. Then they got him home. That’s their job, and they did it well.
But there was a gap. There’s always a gap.
The medications were necessary. Every single one of them. But they were also hammering his gut, his liver, his immune system — the very things that need to be strong for him to actually recover. His vet team addressed the basics around food — but the deeper work wasn’t part of the conversation. How to rebuild a microbiome that has been under siege for months. How to support a liver processing six medications at once. How to build a plan for what happens now — when the crisis is over and the real healing has to begin.
That’s not a failure on their part. It’s a gap in the system. And it’s the gap I help fill.
I know what these medications do to a body. I’ve been on Doxycycline myself, many, many times. It’s an amazing drug in many ways — it fights the infection, and you’re grateful for it. But it wreaks havoc on everything else. It doesn’t discriminate. It kills the bacteria making you sick and the bacteria keeping you alive. I’ve felt what that does. Bentley can’t tell his owner what it feels like, but I can.
Today I built Bentley a personalized recovery and nutrition guide. Twenty-three pages. A supplement protocol organized by urgency — what to start immediately, what to add within the first week. A species-appropriate food plan built around his known safe protein. A daily medication and supplement schedule timed down to the hour so nothing interfered with anything else. Liver support. Gut lining repair. Immune modulation. Natural pest prevention to replace the chemicals his liver could no longer process.
And I started it the way I start every one of these: with a note to his owner.
Bentley is a very sick little guy, and this is not going to be an easy road. But the decisions you make right now — about his food, his gut health, his immune support — these are the things that give him his best chance at a real recovery. Not just surviving this crisis, but actually thriving on the other side of it.
This is what I do. This is what I’ve always done — whether it was building a seven-figure pet business, navigating the highest levels of government operations, or sitting with my own pets while we fought through something nobody else could see.
Here’s what I want you to understand about integrative pet health, because it gets misrepresented constantly — by bad actors riding a buzzword they don’t actually understand, and by critics who lump everyone together because of them.
This is not anti-veterinarian. Not even close.
Bentley’s vet team saved his life. Full stop. The emergency intervention, the diagnostics, the medications — that is extraordinary, skilled, life-saving work. I have enormous respect for what veterinarians do, and nothing I offer replaces that.
What integrative care does is fill the space that conventional medicine wasn’t designed to fill. Nutrition. Gut health. Immune support. The slow, daily, unsexy work of building a body from the inside out — with real food, targeted supplementation, and a plan that treats the whole animal, not just the diagnosis.
Here’s the catch — and this is the part that keeps me up at night: if we take an integrative approach from the beginning, we need the crisis intervention far less. A strong immune system, a healthy gut, species-appropriate nutrition — these aren’t just recovery tools. They’re prevention. They’re giving our pets the best possible chance to thrive before something goes wrong, not scrambling to rebuild after it already has.
The best outcomes happen when both sides work together. The veterinarian handles what veterinarians do best. The integrative approach builds the foundation so they have to do it less often. Especially now — when our pets are exposed to more processed food, more environmental toxins, and more unnecessary chemicals than any generation before them.
That’s not a competing philosophy. That’s a complete one.
Here’s what I’ve learned: almost everyone has a furry companion at home. And regardless of where you sit — in a boardroom, at your own kitchen table building something from scratch, or on the sofa with a dog who doesn’t care what your title is — the love we have for our furry companions is one of the things that unites us. We all want them to live their longest, healthiest lives. Thriving, not just surviving.
That’s not separate from what The Jenn Files is about. It’s the heart of it.
I built a pet business because I love the dogs and the people attached to them. I exited it when a health crisis I’d been unknowingly carrying for years finally surfaced — and I needed to know the team would be taken care of while I went and fought for my own life.
But that part of me — the part that shows up and builds a 20+ page guide for a sick beagle before the day is over — never left.
So I’m doing something about it.
Starting today, I’m opening 50 founding memberships for The Jenn Files at $100/year.
The Jenn Files is about business, money, resilience, and grit. That’s what I write about every day. But the work that built this publication started with our furry companions — and that part isn’t going anywhere.
I’m a certified pet health coach. There are others out there doing this work — and I’m glad they are. But we’re all asking the same question: if veterinary science is more advanced than ever before and we can do more than we’ve ever been able to do — why are our dogs living shorter lives than ever before?
Something in the system isn’t working. And the answer isn’t less veterinary care. It’s more complete care.
Every founding member gets a complimentary Integrative Pet Parent session. The same kind of personalized recovery, nutrition, and wellness guide I built for Bentley today — plus a 30-minute coaching call to walk through it together. That’s a $350 value, included with your $100 membership.
Here’s how it works:
You send me your dog’s information — lab work, current diet, medications, concerns. I review everything and build a personalized guide tailored to your dog’s specific situation. Then we get on a call, and I walk you through it. What to start immediately. What to introduce over time. How to work with your vet to give your dog the strongest possible foundation.
After that, ongoing sessions are available — $75 for follow-up check-ins or $125 for a full deep dive as we adjust the plan based on new lab work, progress, and how your furry one is responding.
Fifty spots. That’s it.
This community started with our furry companions. The DCDS family — the 3k+ people who watched me build a pet business from nothing — you showed up for me when it mattered. This is me showing up for you.
Your dog doesn’t need another bag of prescription kibble and a “come back in six months.” Your dog needs someone who will sit with the lab work, dig into the research, and build a plan that actually heals — not just manages.
I’m that person. I’ve always been that person.
The Jenn Files is where presidential-level advance and a seven-figure business exit meet real life. I write daily about business, money, resilience, and grit — cutting through the noise so you can build something that can’t be broken.
I’m Bentley’s mom. I don’t ever want to find myself in a Vet hospital faced with a choice of spending $7,000 for a blood transfusion & ICU Care or taking my furry baby home to die. While thankfully, he is stable and recovering, I still don’t have clear answers from the Vet Care Team. The recommendations provided by Jenn were extremely thorough, backed by holistic pet health experts (links provided). The report was incredibly detailed, then summarized into easily digestible steps. I do not have a holistic Vet in my area. This gave me the roadmap & step by step guide to get my beloved Bentley to his best self. I came so close to losing him. I am grateful and thankful for Jenn’s expert insights. I immediately was able to start implementing recommended solutions to begin strengthening his immune system to speed his healing.
Our furry family deserves holistic health options, not just reactive care. These types of tailored evaluations normally cost $500 or more. I will tell you the offer she’s made is worth every penny! Don’t hesitate, the limited slots will fill quickly. You won’t regret it!