Kitty, kitty...

Well, it so happens that in the past week or so several things have come together to make me realize something new about my cat... he stinks. Literally. My kitty not only clears the room with his litterbox; he's a gassy little bugger!
I've never had a cat with flatulence before, so I went online to see why he was SO stinky (as in it's the first thing you smell walking into the house lately :P). The only real info I found was he might have a case of worms (so I wormed him again) and that his diet is probably to blame. We've been feeding him the same stuff as our last cat, who was not stinky, but the 'net says each cat is different. So... since I can't really afford to drop the money on the fancy food everyone was touting as a gas fix, I decided to try making my own kitty food.
I looked all over online and collected a bunch of recipies and picked the one that looked the best to me, then added a few bits that were popular from other recipies. I used a 'renal failure' diet as my base, because the vets thought kitty 'might' have some renal issues starting though none were coming up on the basic tests. Then I stepped up the protein a little bit so it's liike a "renal lite" recipe. It took me a bit of mucking around in the kitchen... mostly because it was my first attempt at this, but I think this may work. Here's the recipe I cobbled together (just all mixed together):

12 oz. ground chicken (about 1-1/3 cups)
6 oz. minced chicken liver
4 c. cooked brown rice
4 eggs
1/3 c. grated carrot
1/2 a jar of 'squash' baby food
about a handful of sprouts, finely minced
2 Tbsp. cooking oil
A good shake of garlic powder and parsley flakes

For vitamin balance and herbal supplementation, I added the following crushed caplets:
1 Multivitamin
2 Tums (calcium)
1 Glucosamine/Chondroitin/MSM
1 Cranberry extract
50 mg. Vitamin B complex


I used a postage scale 'cause my base recipe was mostly by weight, and some of the measurements are funny because I have like no open freezer room so I had to adjust for that. Still, this just about filled my biggest mixing bowl, so if you size it up you'll need a bucket or something to mix in.
I think kitty will like it just fine - he spent half the time I was mixing it up begging in the kitchen and then inhaled a spoonful I gave him (since he'd already been fed...last can of commercial kitty food). We'll have to wait a while before we'll know if it works, the 'net said it can take a week or so for their guts to fully clear of the old stuff. So, we'll see. I PRAY this will de-stink him... he LOVES to cuddle but keeps ambushing me with "silent but deadly" poots that pretty much gag me on-the-spot :P