Famed New Mexico fat cat 'Meow' dies
Source: STL Post-dispatch
A cat that got national attention for tipping the scales at 39 pounds has died from apparent complications of his morbid obesity, an animal shelter said Monday.
The orange and white tabby named Meow, who was between 2 and 5 years old, was taken to the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society last month after his 87-year-old owner could no longer take care of him.
The shelter put Meow on a diet and posted all his weigh-ins on a Facebook page that got national attention.
Meow had lost 2 pounds and was doing well when he began having breathing problems Wednesday, shelter Director Mary Martin said Monday.
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Like she took care of him in the 1st place. 
He was a bigger (much, much bigger) version of my cat, Tony.
Poor Meow!
Poor kitty, just when he had a chance at a healthier life.
And I relate to that because my 3rd cat, that I did not really want, but who decided VERY insistently that she wants me/us, an abandoned female that just started clawing at our door some 6 months ago or so, my third cat I was saying, whoc started by being a scrawny and pitiful looking little thing, is now at around 13 or 15 pounds! She is heavy, and I don'ty know what to do about it . Any suggestions? And please don't tell me to feed her less, because I do not feed her a lot, and I also have two otehr males, one rather scrawny (the one that the recently adopted female is probably stealing most food from) and another one with just the perfect amount of plumpness to make him irreseistibly cute. We are even trying to feed them kind of separately, but it's not easy...
I'd also suggest looking into a food that has a lower/reduced amount of grains in it. Grain is not supposed to be a regular part of a kitty diet--in fact if they are eating in a free state, grain consumption is pretty much limited to whatever is present in prey's digestive system when it gets eaten by the cat. Those little tummies, endocrine, and digestive systems are just not equipped for too many carbs on a regular basis. As always, talk to your vet before you do change anything--there may be something at work here that requires special diet for one of those cats. (MOST normal healthy cats should be good with it--but if they are older or have kidney issues a lower protein/higher grain content diet might be better for them in the long run...)
As my vet put it, carnivores were the first Atkins Dieters...
Laura
He also must be feeling bad about this. I liked him more, as well, seeing that he was an animal lover. 
RIP Meow...
TYY
He was really cute, too. So sad. RIP, Meow.
