Animal Shelter trying to figure out how someone lost a 44-pound cat!

[tencats]

Wanted: 1 home, giant fridge, bushels of cat litter
South Jersey shelter caters to 44-pound kitty
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-080729-fat-cat,0,7252721.story
By Dan Lieberman | Philadelphia Inquirer
9:43 PM CDT, July 29, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -- There are fat cats and then there are fat cats.
Meet Princess Chunky -- all 44 pounds of her and just two pounds shy of the 1987 Guinness World Record for overweight cats.
Camden County Animal Control Officer Jim McCleery got the call Friday. There was a stray cat prowling on a patio in the Ashley Run condominium development.
"We picked him up and I knew from the get-go it wouldn't fit in the regular cat carrier, so we had to put him in a dog carrier ... it was a big cat, the biggest one this year," said McCleery, of the Camden County Joint Municipal Animal Control Program.
Employees at Camden County Animal Shelter called the feline "Captain Chunk." Realizing she was female, the name was quickly changed to "Princess Chunk." Her "foster mom" -- shelter volunteer Deborah Wright -- calls her "Princess Chunky."
As the shelter seeks to find the feline's owner, Princess Chunky is now in "foster care" at Wright's Sicklerville home. She is fed only wet and dry cat food.
Wright is trying to develop an exercise routine for the orange and white, short-haired domestic cat, estimated to be about 4 years old.
"I won't feed her table scraps because I have a funny feeling that's what it's been fed. The cat doesn't seem unhealthy at all. You can tell she is carrying weight, but I am going to start taking her out on walks, but have to get a dog harness first," said Wright, who works as a driver assistant for the state Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Cherry Hill, N.J..
"She's bigger than my Yorkie dog," added Wright who is also currently caring for six other shelter animals -- including a 40-pound cat named Yanni and another cat, named Bullseye, who was injured by a BB from an air gun.
Because of the media attention, Princess Chunky has preferred Wright's bathroom to roaming the home with the six other pets.
Wright and others speculate Princess Chunky may suffer from diabetes or a thyroid condition.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Heard on the radio today that is actually PRINCE Chunky..and he belongs

to some old woman who is moving and could not take care of him.
I am not sure if that means that he was just tossed out to find his own way in the world. That would be very sad..but it did turn out for the best, and hopefully he will end up in a much better home than he had before.

He was on Good Morning America this AM, and is supposed to be on some other morning show tomorrow. He may end up a real celebrity..

[emilyg]

2. Hope he finds a good home soon.