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New Zealand cat recovering from year-long McDonald’s diet

Anyone needing more evidence that McDonald's food can turn you into a junk-food-junky, behold Frankie the Kiwi cat, who lived off McNuggets and fries for more than a year before he was rescued and put through a kitty version of food rehab, according to the Waikato Times.

The cat's owners had abandoned him when he was a kitten, according to the story, so he wandered into a McDonald's parking lot in the suburb of Frankton, where he became a local celebrity and earned the nickname Frankie.

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An SPCA field officer named Jessica Watson told the newspaper that customers would order an extra patty for the cat, or toss him a chicken nugget as they drove past.

However, Frankie's McDiet was faring badly for his feline metabolism. The SPCA officer said she scooped him up one day, worried that he looked swollen and matted.

Bad as it was for him, the fast-food addict kitty didn't want to give up his greasy diet, according to the story. His foster mother told the Waikato Times that Frankie refused to eat the cat food he was offered at first, creating a frustrating transition that nearly led her to go out and buy him a burger, she said.

Someone better warn this other fast-food cat about the error of his burger-crazed ways.