I sent the email below off to a complete stranger on a whim. A slice of internet history for the curious, though:

Hi,

I came across your cat resource site by accident and noticed you bring up the infamous Tubcat on a page discussing feline obesity. On your site, you mention that the cat's weight is unknown. I figured you might be curious to learn more about the animal.

As it happens, I have a framed picture of Tubcat hanging over my desk, which was actually clipped from the publication the picture initially appeared in (here in the states, at least). My mom showed me the picture when I was a senior in high school (I'm now in grad school), and I've kept it ever since. This was well before Tubcat became an internet superstar.

First, the picture initially appeared in Us Weekly, p. 96, on October 1, 2001. The cat's name is Tulle, and the 12-year-old girl holding him is Tahabita (spelled Tabitha elsewhere) Pedersen. They're from Denmark, and Tulle was 6 years old in the picture. The caption also mentions Tulle's weight, which was 43 pounds when the picture was taken -- at the time, about 4 pounds shy of the then-fattest cat on record, an Australian tabby named Himmy.

My Dutch is awful, but it's my understanding that Tulle died in January of this year, of diabetes. Link below, if you're interested. Anyway, I thought I would send this along, since it looked like you'd poured a lot of time into writing that page.

http://www.kvp.se/nyheter/1.992641/varldens-fetaste-katt-ar-dod

DC Tedrow

RIP, Tubcat. Ye shall be missed.

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