After the St. Louis-area animal shelter found a home of its 27-pound cat, named Biscuit, his new family announced that they will be implementing a new diet.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Biscuit will go to live with Ed and Lisa Pyatt next week. The Eureka couple adopted another fat cat, Max, several years ago, and Ed Pyatt says it'll be good for Max to have a buddy.
Biscuit is anything, but a Biscuit, at roughy three-times the size of a "normal" cat, he eats anything that crosses his path and it is for this reason the diet is now in place.
While at the shelter, his salad days were spent pigging out and the shelter restricted him to about a cup of diet food per day, reported csmonitor.com.
His first owner, a disabled woman who fed him lots of treats, brought him to the St. Charles Animal Control shelter about a year ago because she could no longer care for him, Teresa Gilley, the shelter's lead animal control officer, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"She didn't mean the cat any harm," Gilley said. "I just think she didn't know any better," reported St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The eventual adoption is being credit to the massive coverage that Biscuit garnered after the Post-Dispatch published a story about him.
"This lead to adoption offers from as far away as Canada, Ohio, and Arizona," claimed, theepochtimes.com.
There has been some debate over whether Biscuit is the fattest cat in the world, but there have been examples of even fatter cats.
Guinness World Records said the world's heaviest cat weighed 47 pounds, but the organization stopped giving out awards to the fattest animals.
There is also a 40-pound cat named, Garfield (isn't it ironic?), who lives at a shelter near New York City.
Biscuit is neutered and is believed to be about 4.
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