New Hampshire hotel is home to supersized cat

[TexasTowelie]

AP Photo/Jim Cole

WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. (AP) -- Guests at a hotel in New Hampshire can be forgiven for thinking a raccoon is lounging out front.

The huge ball of fur on the sidewalk of the Best Western Silver Fox Inn at the Waterville Valley Resort is actually a fat cat. A really fat cat.

The 8-year-old tabby is named Logan and weighs 31 pounds - nearly three times the size of a normal cat. Often found wandering through the hotel or stretched out on the sidewalk, Logan has become a huge hit with visitors and is an internet sensation. Guests have posted photos of Logan sitting in a chair, and a Facebook video that's been viewed 29 million times, shows it waddling through the parking lot.

Susan and Tor Brunvand adopted Logan from a Meridith, New Hampshire, shelter six years ago. Logan arrived as a normal sized cat but soon was gobbling up food from the bowls of the couple's two other cats and finding a way to sneak into the stash of food. Logan slowly put on weight.

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[Freddie]

1. That can't be healthy

Glad he's made it to age 8.
We had a cat who'd had surgery for bladder stones and had to be on a special diet. The prescription food must have been delicious as Jake weighed 21 lb and our other cat got "portly" also. Sadly at age 5 Jake died with no warning at all, DH found him in his usual napping place.

[tymorial]

2. It isn't healthy.

The same risks for morbidly obese humans apply; diabetes, heart disease etc.