You can now adopt one of the world’s fattest cats
A cat so fat it is approaching a Guinness World Record was dropped off at a Big Apple animal shelter and is now up for adoption.
Barsik and all 41 pounds of him were brought to the Manhattan Animal Care Center and was forced to take refuge in the office area because it was too big to fit in a cage, the ACC wrote in a Facebook post Saturday.
“We just received a 41 pound cat! He may even make it to the Guinness Book of World Records,” the ACC wrote on Saturday around 3 p.m.
“All that aside, Barsik is extremely obese and needs a home that can help him get to an ideal weight. He is too big for our housing so is resting in the office. Come by Manhattan ACC at 110th/2nd. #boroughbred.”
Barsik, a five-year-old black and white domestic short hair, was dropped off at the shelter by owners who were leaving town and was soon rescued by the no-kill shelter Anjellicle Cats Rescue, Fox reported.
They told the outlet they’ll be monitoring his weight loss and looking for a forever home for him.
Barsik actually falls a few pounds behind the fattest cat to make it into the Guinness World Records book. An Australian chunker named Himmy who weighed 46 pounds broke the record in 1986.
Himmy was so big, he needed to be carried in a wheelbarrow and he died shortly after he won the prize at age 10.
Since then, Guinness record managers decided to discontinue the category so pet parents wouldn’t overfeed their animals just to appear in the book.
Still, fat cats have remained a subject of wonder for felinophiles and Barsik might give a Norwegian cat named Kato, the fattest cat behind Himmy, a run for his kibble.
Kato, from Sogndal, Norway, weighed only 36 pounds, possibly making Barsik the fattest cat currently alive.