Foreclosure victim: Princess Chunk, a fat cat
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A couple of people forwarded me links to the story of ‘Princess Chunk,’ a 44-pound white cat who has been wandering the streets of New Jersey, a victim of foreclosure. At first I thought it was some sort of news hoax, the kind of thing you would read in the Onion and forward to friends.
But it’s true. WNBC-TV in New York reports the cat -- real name ‘Powder’ -- ‘became a local media sensation this week and was dubbed ‘Princess Chunk’ -- since it was found on Saturday wandering the southern New Jersey suburb of Voorhees.... In a week with headlines about presidential politics, suicide bombings in Iraq and big baseball trades, the cat has also captured the nation’s attention.’
New York magazine: ‘The nationwide mortgage crisis has a new face: Powder, a.k.a. Princess Chunk, the 44-pound orphaned cat from Camden County, New Jersey. The tubby tabby’s elderly owner recently contacted animal-control officials  who, in turn, told WNBC  that she can no longer take care of him because she recently lost her home to the bank.’
The cat, by the way, is a male.
Now, go ahead and let me have it for jumping the shark, ruining the blog and journalism as we knew it by posting something so over-the-top irrelevant and frivolous. Go ahead, you want to.
--Peter Viles
Photo credit: John Costello / Philadelphia Inquirer