{"id":21170,"date":"2025-09-09T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2025-09-21T22:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:32:17","slug":"daily_3843_-_the_cat_is_a_bit_fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/daily_3843_-_the_cat_is_a_bit_fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3843 &#8211; the cat is a bit fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Nysse got his shots the other day, he also got weighed, and told off for being slightly overweight. Not much &#8211; he&#8217;s at 5.4 kg and they&#8217;d rather prefer him to be at 5-ish. Less than 10% off ideal weight is not bad.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>There is no chance that I would get out a scale to weigh each of his meals &#8211; especially with him meowing and begging and head-butting me while I&#8217;m at it &#8211; so I just measure it with a small cup. I guess I might aim for slightly less heaped cups, going forward.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3843_cat_food_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3843_cat_food_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Nysse got his shots the other day, he also got weighed, and told off for being slightly overweight. Not much &#8211; he&#8217;s at 5.4 kg and they&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,778,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-nystagmus","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}