An NJ animal shelter found a cat weighing in at 44 pounds. Good grief! But what’s really funny is if you go to the photo slide show, the headline is: “FAT CAN NEEDS A HOME.” Yeah, I guess her can is big too.
FAT CAT
liz | 12:43 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Let’s be generous here after all she may well have a no fault biologically based disorder, “Princess Chunk’s condition could be a combination of bad genetics and way too much Meow Mix.” That said, which psychotropic would be best for her? After all, we humans have found that they work for all of us all the time, address every need and correct every ill …. not.
Thanks Liz for the cute fix.
Princess Chunk will be on GMA today and Regis and Kelly as well.
According to today’s Post, over 800 people want to adopt her.
I would too, but I can barely lift my 10 lb cata, what would I do with a kitty 4x that amount?
I agree with the previous poster. When my girl put on a pound and ballooned up to 11 lbs, the vet told me she had to loose weight. I started playing with her more, and the weight came off. It’s a daily thing now, playing with her and she is sleek and beautiful.
But then, I am slightly prejudiced.
Sorry for posting again Liz.
It’s just breaking here, but apparently first of all the cat is a male, not a female, and second adn more important, his previous owner was a Senior citizen who lost her house due to foreclosure and could not care for the cat anymore.
This whole thing about people dropping off pets at shelters because they can no longer afford them is sad. I found out on Tuesday night’s BP support meeting that one of the local shelters here put down 60 dogs and cats, puppies and kittens because people can no longer afford them. the shelter in question was a no kill.
I think the shelter should contact Richard Simmons. Maybe he could adopt the cat for his up and coming video for obese pets.
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