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Adoption offers pouring in for 37-pound cat
Source: STL Post-dispatch
ST. CHARLES • People looking for a pet to adopt from the city’s shelter can’t help but stop and stare at the cat in cage No. 1.
Biscuit — a gray and white tabby — weighs a whopping 37 pounds. He is morbidly obese.
Male house cats normally top out at between 10 and 15 pounds, according to Teresa Gilley, lead animal control officer. That makes Biscuit’s condition and his chances for adoption a concern.
Since he got to the shelter a week ago, he’s been put on a diet
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stcharles/adoption-offers-pouring-in-for--pound-cat/article_b0da05a6-e5b7-5db0-86e6-42fb204baece.html
How many jobs has that fat cat created?