I forgot to include the reasoning behind the taurine.
According to the admin (who does research as a living, above and beyond what she does for the group she co-founded) "Cats use taurine to conjugate bile acids, and as there's clearly some impairment in the GI tract, the extra taurine might help with fat digestion. "
The study is here
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508316/Now, Jennie has never shown any signs of IBD. Her only digetive issue, EVER, has been constipation, until this recent problem with soft, large smelly stool.. But as I know, that can be an indication of IBD.
When I rescued her she was approximately 2 years old (give or take a few months, vet's best guess) living off the land and on the dry food my friends were putting out. What she ate before I don't know, but considering she wasn't spayed and had been abandoned right around the time college kids leave for the summer, I am guessing junk kibble.
So even though she went right onto canned with me, and five years later, raw, the potential for damage is already there. As we know, poor diet does a lot of damage, even if it takes years for that damage to show. I mean, even though she has been on a best diet for the past almost 6 years, and a canned for 5 years before that, the damage done in her first two years is now showing up.