AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Option C — The narrator gave Tricki no food but plenty of water and kept a close eye on him during the first two days at the surgery.
The text states the narrator's cure for Tricki was essentially starvation (no food) combined with observation and water, allowing the dog's system to reset. Examiners expect students to identify that no food/only water + observation is the correct treatment described, not any medicine or surgery.