Meow is a true fat cat. The orange-and-white tabby weighs in at almost 40 pounds. According to The Associated Press, the big guy has to waddle to get around due to his weight, but is trying to drop some of the extra cushioning so he can be adopted.
Meow ended up at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society in New Mexico after his 87-year-old owner could no longer care for the feline. Shelter workers say that the 2-year-old tabby has a cuddly demeanor to match his sweet, mushy face, and that he will certainly make a great companion. He just needs to shed some weight first.
Meow is currently living with a foster family and is being kept on a special diet. The big kitty must drop 10 pounds before he moves on to a permanent home.
Shelter employees are amazed and confused by how Meow could have reached 40 pounds in only two years, but believe the weight gain resulted from a nutritionally unbalanced diet. To be safe, the tabby has undergone testing to make sure that he doesn’t have any serious medical issues.
Surprisingly, Meow is not the fattest cat of all time. That title belongs to Himmy, an Australian tabby that weighed 47 pounds. The record may have been broken in the decades since Himmy reigned supreme, but Guinness World Records has stopped accepting applications for the “fattest cat” title so as not to encourage people to overfeed their pets.
Failure to earn the heavyweight title is no concern for Meow. He’s working hard to make his weight go in the other direction, dropping pounds so he can play and scamper without quickly tiring out.
Those of you who are interested in Meow can follow his progress on the shelter’s Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/sfhumanesociety ).
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