Cat Lives Off McDonald's for a Year

[joeybee12]

A cat addicted to fast food has been rescued by the SPCA and put on a health plan to kick his McDonald's addiction, according to New Zealand news website Stuff.co.nz.

The black-and-white tomcat, dubbed Frankie by McDonald's staff and customers, was only a kitten was he was abandoned by his owners. So the cat made his home in the parking lot of a local McDonald's where he would beg for chicken nuggets or fries from cars as they exited the drive-through lane.

But just as the human body can't properl function from a junk food diet, Frankie's couldn't either and the McDonald's staff became concerned for his health.

One day, Jessica Watson, a field officer with the Waikato SPCA and regular McDonald's customer, spotted Frankie. After noting his swollen face, eyelids that wouldn't properly close, and matted coat, she brought him into her care and launched a search for his permanent owners.

"I estimate he has lived in the McDonald's carpark for 12 to 18 months," Watson told Stuff.co.nz. "Everyone knew to keep an eye out for him. You would go through the drive-through and ask for a burger for you and an extra patty for Frankie. He would watch you and trot after the car, wait until you stopped the car and then you would toss him the meat. It was his little routine."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/pets/cat-lives-off-mcdonald-s-for-a-year-191236288.html

12-18 months? Kind of sad no one took him in all during that time.

[Skittles]

1. I had to leave my kitten Clancy with a friend when I had a familiy emergency

I left him a bag of cat food but when I retrieved my cat I noticed the cat food was untouched.....my friend, a stoner, said, "He likes cheeseburgers." Yup, he had fed my kitten cheeseburgers for a week. To this day, 15 years later, if I so much as bring a cheeseburger in my apartment Clancy goes ape-shit

[joeybee12]

3. Interesting that cats will eat that...they won't eat sweets...

They don't have the tastebuds for sugar apparently.

[Tempest]

8. My cat loves sweets

I can't keep any candy laying around or he'll get into it.

He's especially fond of marshmallows and gum drops.

[joeybee12]

10. Never been able to tempt any of mine with sweets...

Even cats that will eat anything...

[kiva]

11. I have a glazed donut junkie in my house.

I don't do it often - don't need the calories or fat - but she's hooked on Krispie Kreme.

[Tempest]

14. Mine likes the jelly inside of donuts

I came home one day to a box of jelly filled donuts with their insides licked away and a sick cat. He ate from the lemon, blackberry and cherry donuts.

Technicolor vomit. It was on the rug so I didn't take the time for a picture.

[kiva]

15. Oh, poor kitty!

And poor Tempest for a) having your donut snack catnapped and b) having to clean up the mess.

[KittyWampus]

6. I love this story.

[question everything]

2. Poor Frankie

Hope he is nursed back to health.

[johnp3907]

4. A friend of mine has an IHOP cat.

She found her living behind the IHOP, and apparently eating from their dumpster. To this day the cat loves breakfast foods.

[shenmue]

5. He can has cheezburger

And fries.

[KittyWampus]

7. ah, someone had to go there! LOL

[Incitatus]

9. 37 pounds! That is a fat damn cat.

http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/X58QupJ7L9hpcRNsTOXlmg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTMxMA--/

[pstokely]

16. How many jobs has that fat cat created?

How much does it give to the GOP?

[Initech]

12. No he cannot haz cheeseburger.

[progressoid]

13. ...

My first laugh of the day.

[PCIntern]

17. My dear departed cat loved olives and olive juice...

Hadn't thought of giving her a martini at the time!