WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. (AP) – Guests at a hotel in New Hampshire can be forgiven for thinking a raccoon is lounging out front.
But 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 – about twice the size of a normal cat. Often found wandering through the hotel or stretched out on the sidewalk, the cat has become a huge hit with visitors and is now an internet sensation. Guests have posted photos of the cat sitting in a chair, and one video on Facebook shows it waddling through the hotel parking lot with the shooter saying “You are so big.” That video has been viewed 29 million times and shared 372,000 times.
Susan and Tor Brunvand adopted Logan from a Meridith, New Hampshire, shelter six years ago. At the time, Susan Brunvand said he was “a normal sized cat.” But soon he was gobbling up food from the bowls of the couple’s two other cats and finding a way to sneak into the stash of cat food for a few extra bites.
“He just slowly put the weight on,” Susan Brunvand said, adding that she started to wonder if something was wrong as the cat grew in size.