First Super Girl, Now Super Cat

Just as the whoopee cushion is the lowest and most banal form of comedy, so is cat blogging to online citizens media. So going against all my instincts, I reluctantly enter into this objectionable tradition to present a corpulent cat from Shandong with no name. (Many folks here don’t name their pets, instead simply addressing them as “mao mao” or “gou gou”)

People’s Daily gives us the hard hitting news:

A super fat cat weighing 17 kilograms has been raised by Xu Jirong, a citizen of Qingdao, a coastal city in east China’s Shandong Province. This super-fat cat has lived in Xu’s family for 10 years. It has lived for the equivalent of 70 human years. Its “waist” measures around 86.7 centimeters, wider than a girl’s.

That’s over 37 lbs. And at 34 inches, perhaps the waist is wider than a girl from China, but perhaps not Houston, Texas.

The cat likes meat but doesn’t eat fish. It eats one steamed roll and half a bowl of chicken hearts and some pork every day.

It’s sad to say, but this is about the same daily nutrition as a migrant construction worker in Beijing.

How does this cat stack up against cats worldwide?

Xu says that he has no way to make the cat lose weight. He has tried to reduce its food, but this makes the cat bad-tempered. It scratches visitors and relieves itself all over the house in protest. According to the record, the world’s fattest cat is in the USA and weighs 18.55 kilograms. Xu’s cat is a pet cat and it may well be the fattest pet cat in the world.

The US had better look in the rear view mirror. Its sole superpower status is being directly challenged by Super Cat. Did you hear that neoconservatives, Project for New American Century and the Heritage Foundation? The US was previously the undisputed fattest country in the world, but China is catching up. Starting with the cats.

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