Just to make sure I am giving both of you all the facts and details... (in no particular order)
Yes, Arrows started again.
He has been with us for 4 years, and has
never even brought up a hairball. He eats from my plate (only very small amounts of feline safe foods), and has no problems. He ate a pretty good size lizard once... no problem. I'm sure if I thought long enough, I could come up with a ton of examples. lol
Anyway...knowing me... I think I
may have went into full panic, because I know barfing isn't normal and it is SO not him... and he's close to 10 years of age, and the Lucky situation, and it wasn't "chunky," like I would expect barf to be, and, the barf eaters not going near it, and, and, and I (maybe...hopefully) got stuck on it being blood. Remembering now...Leonard threw up blood (at the end)... a lot of color difference. Arrows and Roxy... definitely brown. Not red and not black.
IF I understand the difference between barfing and regurgitating... Roxy has always been a regurgitator (new word). I should say... episodes of regurgitating.
She doesn't barf up hair balls. She doesn't barf up food...at least not close to the time she ate it. However, the beef issue was so long ago, I can't remember those details ... as far as what she did, that made me remove beef. I do know removing beef stopped, whatever was going on, at the time.
Roxy goes for looooong periods of time (mannnny months), before starting up again. It I change something and she starts up... I change it back. She doesn't go on for weeks. I usually stumble on a fix pretty quickly... thanks to members here, 99.9% of the time.
When I lowered Roxy's Pepcid dose recently, and she regurgitated... seeing it, reminded me of what her "stuff" looks like, when she has issues. It has been a long time...and my memory SUCKS normally... more so, when my head is spinning. With Arrows "stuff" looking exactly like Roxy's... I came to the assumption it isn't blood. Roxy couldn't possibly be bringing up blood for 4 years (that I know of)...could she? Even if she only has issues twice a year... it still covers a 6 year period.
Just to throw a bit more info out there...Roxy was fed kibble for 2 years. Not that I think there is good kibble, but I'm willing to bet it was the worst of the worst. She was ruined at two years old!
Roxy takes 1/4 of a 10mg table 3 times a day. I crush it into powder form, because ...no matter how well I hid it, she would find it and spit it out.
If (when) I make the decision to give Arrows ACV... (it is a "go," as soon as we finish this discussion...unless something I have said, this time around, changes your thoughts)... Roxy will be given the same.
The "body not getting the vitamins, minerals, etc" made me think (uh oh) Roxy is ALWAYS ready to eat. Not the normal "ready"... like some of the others. She is the first one to let us know it is meal time. She circles the counter, while it is bedding prepared. She YELLS (sometimes growls), until her food is put down. Her plate has to be put down first, or... she will make SURE the first plate down is hers. She will FIGHT for the first serving. Seniority means nothing to her.
Others do some talking, spinning, dancing, etc... but not to the extent she does. Just in case anyone is wondering, no one ever gets her food. We keep watch, until everyone is finished eating.