Yes, it’s a 44-pound cat
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Meet Princess Chunk, a 44-pound cat, who is just two pounds shy of the 1987 Guinness World Record for overweight cats.
South Jersey, to be sure, has seen its fair share of the indictable variety, but never before has it seen the likes of the portly pussycat found waddling in Voorhees.
News reports, including one in the Philadelphia Inquirer, state that the Camden County Animal Shelter is trying to find the feline’s owner ... and trying to develop an exercise routine for its suddenly famous resident.
‘She’s bigger than my Yorkie dog,’ said shelter volunteer and ‘foster mom’ Deborah Wright.
According to the Inquirer report:
Dennis Green, a librarian at the central branch of the Philadelphia Free Library, researched records on the fattest cat in the world. Green said the record was held by 46 pound, 15 1/4 ounce Himmy of Australia who was entered into the 1987 Guinness Book of World Records, the last year the organization had the weight category for cats. Himmy died of respiratory failure.