I don't know if it would make a difference, but how about hard-boiling the egg? I just don't know what impact cooking has on the lecithin.
I think I might like getting crumbly stuff out of his beard even less than somewhat slimy stuff.
Pookie was getting Nature's Plus egg lecithin that I got from my health food store. It's the only one I'm aware of that makes lecithin using egg instead of soy. They come in capsules, so I just pulled the capsule apart and mixed the lecithin in his food.
I found several egg lecithin products online last night, so I'll order one of them when it's time to try it. As long as I stick it down in meat, he takes capsules just fine. I have to tear things apart and sprinkle for Barkly though, otherwise he eats around it.
P.S. Something else you might want to add (if you don't already): digestive enzymes. I don't think it would hurt, and it might help. My nutrition teacher told us that even if you're not digesting food, the enzymes will go to wherever there's inflammation in the body and "eat" the inflammation. How accurate that is, I don't know, but I don't think it would hurt to add them. If nothing else, he'd get more out of his food.
He's gotten digestive enzymes added with each meal once I found out he had pancratitis during crisis. Supposedly giving them helps the pancreas from being signaled quite so much or replaces what the pancreas can't provide if pancreatic insufficiency is going on with the animal/human. Between them, the ACV, probiotics and time, he no longer gets indigestion unless he gets over-stressed and needs more prednisone. A big part of digestion is the cortisol he's missing, so if his prednisone runs out, his digestion ability runs out too no matter what.
Does Vlad get trace minerals?
They've gotten Canine Plus vitamins from Vetriscience since they were puppies. For the past year (
following what someone from the food-co-op we belong to said to do) I've been giving those one day and organic spirulina+alfalfa powder the next day. When the last of these Canine Plus's that I've got run out, they'll just get the spirulina and alfalfa every other day.
I've been told those 2 things (
or kelp instead of spirulina) will provide everything they need naturally instead of man-made. Half-replacement of the Canine Plus seems to not have done anything to his blood tests anyway according to the results from 2015, and Barkly loves the alfalfa powder.
So, a total rundown of Vlad's present supplements:
For both meals: Saw Palmetto for his prostate; Calcium since he can't seem to digest bone or eggshells well anymore; Glucosamine Sulfate; Digestive Enzymes; ACV
Mornings only: a teaspoon of olive or coconut oil
Evenings only: Probiotics; and presently Milk Thistle (to be replaced with Turmeric in 6 weeks); Dandelion; vitamins
In 6 weeks, will also include a half-tablespoon of each hemp and chia seeds and a sprinkle of Psyllium powder.
Barkly gets 1x a day: glucosamine sulfate; vitamins; olive or coconut oil; banana for extra potassium that Vlad's low-potassium diet isn't' providing; and probiotics 3x a week; he gets calcium only when they're eating chicken breast or gizzards for their meat sometimes.
When I'm going down the line of bottles each meal, I really miss the days when Vlad didn't have so many problems.