Fattest cat in the UK, just a big healthy cat
Honey, a 7-year-old cat, started life as the runt of her litter. Now she has grown so large that she can no longer squeeze through an ordinary cat flap. She has to use a bigger hole cut in the door that would be more suitable for a sizeable dog.
The white and tortoiseshell cat weighs an astonishing 3 stones (19 kilos/42 pounds) and her owner, Linda Morano, believes that she must be the heaviest in the country. The previous record holder was believed to be a cat called Sam, which weighed 2st 8lb (18 kilos/39 pounds) before he was put on a strict diet.
Despite her size, Honey’s heart is in good shape, her vet says. Mrs Morano’s 22-year-old daughter, Ashley, said: “Honey does not eat a lot. She shares a tin of cat food a day with our other cat, Penny, yet she is twice the size of her. “She is not being fed by neighbours or anything like that because she hardly goes out. She is just a big cat.”
Miss Morano added: “She soon started to grow and grow and grow. It just happened over a period of time. We never really noticed. “By the time she reached adulthood it was obvious she was going to be a big cat. “We take her to the vet’s for regular check-ups and he has looked at her heart and everything else and he said she is absolutely fine. It is a bit of a mystery.”
Miss Morano said she had recently weighed herself and the cat on her scales. She then weighed herself without the pet and the difference was 3 stones (19 kilos/42 pounds). The Moranos, who live in Bournemouth, said their cat was bigger than all the others that featured on Englands Channel 4’s Fat Pets programme.
Mrs Morano said: “I think I must have a largest cat in Britain. The other cats on the programme had nothing on mine.” The heaviest cat ever recorded, from Minnesota, in the United States, was double Honey’s size at 6 stones (38 kilos/84 pounds).
To give you a scope of overweight pets in other countries: Over 25% of America’s dogs and cats are significantly overweight, a condition which can lead to a host of health problems including diabetes, hip and back trouble, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. So it would be nice if more people would try and prevent these conditions by feeding their pets well, but too much.
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