At 33lbs, he was a real heavyweight of the cat world. But just two months after being adopted by a new family, Spongebob, the ginger tom who horrified and charmed New York, has died. The cat gained ...

SpongeBob, the 33-pound corpulent cat whose outsized girth made him a mini-celebrity in New York City earlier this summer, has died. He was 9 years old. The fat feline suffered from an inoperable ...

NEW YORK — SpongeBob, the 33-pound corpulent cat whose outsized girth made him a mini-celebrity in New York City earlier this summer, has died. He was 9 years old. The fat feline suffered from an ...

Doctors — as in, a team of — discovered the growth two weeks ago, but really couldn’t operate on Spongebob because of how enormous he was. It’s a shame, too, because ol’ Spongy was starting to get in ...

A ginger tomcat called Spongebob, who once tipped the scales at a whopping 33lbs, has died. The nine-year-old moggy had only recently been rehomed via New York City's rescue centre Animal Haven.

One of the city’s fattest cats has died — of a broken heart. Spongebob, the 33 pound tabby that titillated New Yorkers earlier this summer, has gone to the great kitty litter in the sky after ...