When Nysse got his shots the other day, he also got weighed, and told off for being slightly overweight. Not much – he’s at 5.4 kg and they’d rather prefer him to be at 5-ish. Less than 10% off ideal weight is not bad.

The packaging of his dry food pellets says that a 5-kilo cat should eat 55 grams, and a 6-kilo cat should eat 65. I think Nysse has been getting somewhere around 19 grams per meal (of which he gets three per day), plus as much cheap tuna between meals as he wants.

I find it difficult to regulate his portion size. The portions are so tiny to begin with! Say I want to get him more towards the 55-gram daily target. The difference between 19 grams and 17 grams per meal is, like, 10 tiny pellets at most.

There is no chance that I would get out a scale to weigh each of his meals – especially with him meowing and begging and head-butting me while I’m at it – so I just measure it with a small cup. I guess I might aim for slightly less heaped cups, going forward.