Reply #153: You are qualified to speak of

[Coyote_Bandit]

your own experience with the animals for which you have cared. Nothing more.

You took it upon yourself to give veterinary advice without knowing the details of the situation. Guess what? I'd challenge anybody offering professional advice on an internet message board.

Doing so is not an attack on the person offering the advice and you are wrong if you understand it as such. However, anybody who offers such advice should be prepared to have their credentials and qualifications to do so questioned.

You assumed that my dog is older and has health problems that have developed during his lifetime. And you further assumed those problems are the result of food impurities. Ain't necessarily so. Even if you were qualified to render an opinion you did so without knowing the underlying circumstances.

Your recommendation of the BARF diet omitted the fact that many veterinarians do not recommend that particular diet even for healthy dogs. That would include some DU vets who used to post in this forum.