He was found in Voorhees, New Jersey, on July 26, 2008, by Animal Control, who nicknamed him "Captain Chunk".

After a search for his owner, it was found that his name was Powder and that he was abandoned by Donna Oklatner, an elderly Voorhees resident.

Oklatner claimed she could not afford to take care of the cat when she lost her home in foreclosure proceedings.

[2] According to the Guinness World Records, the largest tabby cat was forty-six pounds and fifteen ounces.

One paper reported that "shelter officials said they were perplexed by the discrepancy", after the Damiani family found that the cat weighed just over 22 pounds, "days after" receiving him.