Friends of BARC volunteers are looking for the owners of a lost 35-pound cat, KHOU-TV reported.

Dubbed “Tiny Tim” by volunteer Tim Hebert of southwest Houston, the cat was picked up by animal control officers late last month in the 10400 block of Kirkwood.

Rather than leave the obviously pampered, but dangerously obese, kitty in the city animal shelter, Friends of BARC intervened, the station reported.

Tim Hebert, one of those volunteers, got Tiny Tim out of the shelter and into the Southside Place Animal Hospital, where he’s been boarded ever since.

“He’s just so fat,” Hebert, who visits Tiny Tim every day at the animal hospital, said. “He’s just huge. I can tell you and send you a picture, but until you see him and pick him up, you have no idea how big a 35-pound cat really is.”

Hebert, something of a one-man clearinghouse for lost and found animals, said he had put signs all over the neighborhood where Tiny Tim was found and has talked to veterinarians, to no avail.

“We have not heard back at all – at all – from anyone about this cat,” Hebert said. “And he’s a very unique cat, just the hugest one I have ever seen.”

Dr. Alice Frei of the Southside Place Animal Hospital said the cat must be lost from a home, rather than a stray.

“It’s very unusual. This cat should weigh 12 pounds, and it weighs 35,” Frei said. “There’s no way a cat in this condition was living on the streets, so this cat had a very loving home.”

If you have any information on Tiny Tim’s owners, or if you are interested in adopting him, contact Tim Hebert at timh@friendsofbarc.org.