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 ...

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 ...

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 ...