Hawk Snatches Plump Pussycat, Drops Her For Being Too Fat

Not Eddie, but an equally...curvy cat

Well, we have now confirmed that hawks cannot really carry 15-pound cats: this week, a hawk swooped down and snatched a chubby white kitty on the Upper West Side, leaving his owner frantically scrambling to find him...only to discover that the hawk had almost immediately dropped the cat a few doors down the block.

The News spoke to the unnamed owner of Eddie, the plump cat who was targeted by a red-tailed hawk earlier this week. The owner became aware of the abduction when she heard the "raspy kreeing of a red-tailed hawk capturing its prey" mixed with the cat's sad mews, and found evidence of the attack. The owner looked all over the neighborhood, and started putting up fliers, which gained their own attention by the Times for their blunt wording: “The sign said something like, ‘If you find the cat’s body, please give us a call’...I thought it was very odd, but it’s New York,” said Cathy Konciak.

But after seeing the fliers, a neighbor recognized Eddie, and let the owner know the hawk had dropped him in the garden of a building a few doors down, barely 50 feet away. Eddie, who was no worse for wear, must have fallen at least five floors: "I can only imagine Eddie bounced off the umbrella like in the cartoons," the owner said. She summed up the situation succinctly: "The moral of the story is essentially: Your flaws can be an asset. In Eddie's case, his chubbiness saved him." And now, we shall spend the rest of the day looking up photos of curvy cats.

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By Ben Yakas in News on July 16, 2011 2:15 PM

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felixthecat

damn, that is one FAT pussy.

AlexTheOriginalPartyDog

Aren't you going to attack the hawk for trying to harm a poor defenseless animal?

Guest

You've got the humor of a 14 year old boy. It doesn't surprise me that you never get laid.

hashedz

I believe the politically correct term would be BBP.

pete_mac

Yeah, fake. When hawks grab things they hit them really hard to stun them. The cat would have been hurt pretty bad.

Bernie_Geotz_Squirrel_Luv

I thought 15lbs is what a normal NYC indoor cat weighs. They're just big boned.

anotheranonymousgirl

This is not a photo of Eddie. I would like a photo of the actual fat cat featured in the story.

Emmily_Litella

Oh you would would you?

Miles Bader

Yes. Please some lawmaker introduce "Eddie's law."

buzzzzkill

not buying this story... what predator makes a kamakazi screech as it swoops in on it's prey? And a red-tailed hawk does not have the capacity to carry a fifteen pound anything.

roknrolla

Agreed. Not buying this story either. We have red-tailed hawks near us and we've never heard any "kreeing". And it would seem to not help the raptor's cause to "kree" whilst pouncing on it's prey.
Maybe the owner watches The Colbert Report and believes the sound effects of the eagle's descent in the opening.
I mean, really.