Re: Fasting for dogs?
cduliga,
although animals in the wild fast when ill/injured, they do sometimes tend to lose their natural instinct to do so as domesticated animals.
Also, your dog may not feel that particularly ill (if at all) due to this growth, as this is a case of chronic disease, and where animals in the wild tend not to experience this.
If this was a case of acute disease, then your dog would lose its appetite and feel ill and in all probability want to abstain from nourishment.
After saying that I am not that familiar with fasting for domestic animals, but if this was my own pet dog (I have two) I would radically change their diet to a varied raw vegetarian regimen and only allow one meal per day.
Dogs have much more stomach acid than humans (far more) as this is designed to digest meat as carnivores, so if meat were withheld, vegetarian foods are far easier to digest, and would go along way in reducing the size of this tumor/growth.
To illustrate: one of the most respected Natural Hygiene Doctors in the World, Dr Keki Sidhwa, once had a dog called blackie (he was totally black in color) and fed him on a regimen of raw fresh vegetables and fruits (not at the same meal though) for the whole of his life, and where the dog was never ill, and lived to be a very active and ripe old age of 20 years.
That should tell you something.
Regards
Chrisb1.