FELIX THE CAT

Southland Times, Issue 22146, 14 October 1933, Page 19

FELIX THE CAT

BONDI’S GRAND CHAMPION. Claimant for the title of world’s heavyweight cat is Felix, with his coat as glossy as the sheen of satin, owned, reared and petted by Mr Martin Humphries, of Roscoe street, Bondi. Since Mr Humphries read that the owner of a cat, weighting 171 b., claimed that it was the world’s biggest and heaviest cat, his desire to refute the assertion has become greater and greater. So to-day, he caught the ravencoloured Felix and, with the dexterity of a conjurer, thrust it into a bag and took it to a butcher’s shop. . “What’s in the bag?” queried the butcher, good-humouredly. “It’s not a pig, anyway, said Mr Humphries, as he dipped his hands into the bag. A me-ow or two signalized the temporary distress of Felix. Into the bag Felix was again thrust, while the butcher and his assistant adjusted and tested the scales. On the scales he was placed and the result —“With the bag, 241 b.,” said the butcher. “Then,” gleefully exclaimed Felix s owner, “it’s the world’s biggest and heaviest cat!” Deducting the weight of the bag the butcher announced the final weight of the Bondi cat as 22ilb. The black beauty was bom nearly five years ago, and it has grown so big and heavy that it can no logger scale fences. Each day Felix is fed with cooked meat—it disdains raw meat—and it is given two drinks of pure milk.