Well the puke really hit the fan after I took them out on April 7. SK, as is her habit, ate a lot of grass but didn't bring it up. It sat in her system for NINE DAYS before I finally found it in her poop, and in the course of that nine days she regurgitated her Prey Model Meal nightly, until I stopped feeding any PMR to her at all.
Not wanting her body to get unused to raw in the evening I started giving her Rad Cat or Stella&Chewy's instead. (She gets Rad Cat in the morning). I thought we were making progress, then last night she hurled her Rad Cat meal, and in it was a HUGE wad of fur. (she gets one capsule of egg yolk lecithin daily, split between morning and night)
It's beginning to appear SK may have a motility issue, if grass and fur is lodging for so long. Vet thinks so too.
So I am turning to the Slippery Elm Bark. I've been holding off, saving it as a last resort kind of thing, but I think I am at the last resort place now. At first, I was thinking of using the SEB only on the days I take them out, usually once a week, on Sunday (my day off). SEB has anti-inflammatory properties, and it also "coats and soothes" the digestive tract. My thinking was, give it to her before we go out, so she has a protective coating before she even eats the grass, and hopefully it will also help the grass move through her system more quickly.
But after seeing that wad of fur last night, I've decided to get her on a regular schedule of it, twice a week, one of those days always being Sunday whether we go out or not.
I gave her a little this morning. Just 1/8 teaspoon stirred into a little water, (half the recommended dose) and then mixed into a little bit of Rad Cat. She ate it right up.