oh dear,why so 'uppity' jb

lots of dogs still want to eat when they have the squits..it comes in waves..thats why you have to be the one that fasts them.
as far as im aware the only pets u shouldnt fast in this situation is rabbits

i wasnt slating your vet or you!
is still strange advise imo

Maybe because I am a bit raw at the moment.

As for you thinking my vet gives strange advice or its odd(sounds like a slating to me) that up to you, but I will contue to take his advice in the years to come over other "opinions"

now that i do understand... and i feel for u xx

as far as your vet goes...i never said to not take his advise...just that i wouldnt if a vet said that to me..and in 19years in the vet industry and a fair few different vets..they wouldnt/havnt of said that thats all.

Said what to you ?, to feed them small amounts of bland food , when they are ready to eat, becuase thats what he said, he said DONT starve him, he explinaed his reasons, and I have no reason to disagree with them.

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't matter WHAT a vet says about feeding a dog with an upset stomach, because Mother Nature is pretty good at sorting the problem out for herself. the dog will either eat the food, or it wont!

lol.... is it? no need for vets then!

some dogs will still eat! my Tupac being one of them.

Not necessarily, my GSD had a bit of a tummy bug over Christmas but still had his appetite - I didn't starve him but he only got very small meals (he's raw fed so he just got a couple of chicken necks, was hoping the bone would firm him up, and some chicken mince), I'm sure he would've eaten more but I wanted his tum to have a rest and the vet agreed. If I'd let him eat as much as he wanted then he probably would've given himself a worse tummyache than he had!

Starve?Thats a pretty stong word ,when a dog does not eat for 24 hours!!I starve mine, as i see the need. It cleans them out,and im my opinion,takes alittle of the.FUSSY out of them.Mine will fast on there own sometimes ,there not up for it,usually because of me.I may not have had them out and no exersise that day,bad weather?They dont need to eat because they dont need energy.It happenc naturally in k9, not so bad.IMO

Yes my grandparents kept cattle and the dogs were working dogs, of sorts. Not the same as our working sheepdogs, but still required to earn their keep. However, from vague recollection, my grandparents also never used collars/leads on their dogs, never wormed/de-flead them etc (as far as I know, although I was only young) and never took them to the vet. Oh and I am sure they were fed food scraps from the table. So, perhaps the fasting did work for them and perhaps they kept just really, really healthy fit dogs, or perhaps more sadly, they just didn't get the high level of care that our working dogs get

My Grandparents always gave the dogs a bit of their fried breakfast and after dinner scraps too! Maybe that IS why they fasted them, between gravy and butter fry-ups they dogs probably needed it in those days!