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Mr. B, also known as BeeJay, is a 26-pound cat. Posts about adopting Mr. B went viral as people discussed his size.

Origin

On August 22nd, 2019, the Morris Animal Refuge tweeted, ^[1] "OMG, big boi Mr. B is a CHONK. He’s a chonk of a chonk. He redefines the term. Can you guess how much he weighs? More importantly, can you give him a home? Adopt this jumbo-sized package of fluff & love: https://morrisanimalrefuge.org/adopt/beejay. Please RT to help this sad-eyed guy find happiness!" The tweet received more than 40,000 likes and 12,000 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).

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That day, the Morris Animal Refuge shared the image on Facebook ^[2] as well. The post received more than 9,000 comments, 7,700 shares and 6,000 reactions.

Following the release of the photograph, the website for the Morris Animal Rescue crashed due to increase traffic to the site.^[3]

On August 23rd, Fox 29 in Philadelphia invited Mr. B onto the studio. During the interview with one of the Rescues representatives, Mr. B escaped their supervision and hid behind a couch. Fox 29's Alex Holley shared a video of the moment on Twitter, where it received more than 15,000 views, 300 likes and 65 retweets (shown below).

We heard BIG things about Mr. B…And so we had @MorrisAnimal bring him in! We just didn’t know this cat would steal the show lol pic.twitter.com/qirP1oCCEf

— Alex Holley (@AlexHolleyFOX29) August 23, 2019

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