Tiggy The Talking Cat

Tiggy (Cat)
Tiggy the Talking Cat (1990 - June 23rd 2010) was a unique cat who made a unique talking like noise. Tiggy is from Grimsby, England and was born in 1990; she passed away on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 at the age of 20.

Tiggy started making this strange noise at around the age of 8 and would only make it when she was alone and out of sight. After years of hearing the noise and never seeing it being made, in May 2007 out of curiosity as to what Tiggy looked like when making this noise (and also to show it to friends who didn’t believe the cat could talk) her owners set up a video camera and left it on record in a spot where Tiggy regularly "spoke", eventually footage was captured of Tiggy sitting in the hallway making the noise which sounded like "Hello" four times. This video was uploaded to youtube and was the first ever Tiggy video.
In the first Tiggy video she was quite a distance from the camera so the owners tried again, the second attempt was a great success with Tiggy walking up to the camera and talking for around 20 seconds. The video captured the second time was also uploaded to YouTube along with the first video and it became a huge it acquiring millions of views on YouTube turning Tiggy into an internet celebrity.
A further video was then filmed in the same house and uploaded to Youtube in June, no more videos of tiggy appeared on YouTube until August 2009 when videos of Tiggy playing and talking were uploaded.
Footage of Tiggy has made its way on to several TV Shows in Both the USA and the U.K. Tiggy's first T.V appearance was in the U.K. on channel 4's Richard and Judy show during the "funny five" segment of the show which consisted of 5 funny videos from the internet being nominated by a different celebrity guest each week, viewers then voted for their favorite online. Tiggy won the Funny Five competition for the 2007 series of the show and the crew visited Tiggy in her home and presented her with a plaque signed by presenters Richard and Judy, it was Tiggys apperance on this show which helped to make her popularity on YouTube so large with her being featured on the main YouTube page due to the huge amount of views the TV apperances caused.
Tiggy has then gone on to appear on a number of shows all over the world including: CBBC's Chute, BBC's Lenny Henry.tv, America's County Fried Home Videos, The Ellen DeGeneres and various shows on Animal Planet.

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