Grumpy Cat is DEAD TO MEOW

Aww, that makes me sad. RIP Grumpy cat.

Sad!

Oh, poor thing. Sad news.

She was a cutie. RIP.

Of course, the death announcement on the official IG neglects to mention that her real name was Tarder Sauce (as in retarded - nice owners, eh?).

Wasn't it just Tartar Sauce? Honest question.

She was introduced as "Tard" short for "Tardar Sauce" allegeldy because they didn't know how to spell it.

The cat was legitimately what people would be called "retarded", so no one bought it.

Jeez, that's an asshole name to give a cat.

And she ended up making them millions

The owners are scum.

“...to meow” is clever, OP. Thank you for the laugh.

Hmm, a telling tweet from Tom&Lorenzo:

[quote]We met that viral feline sensation a couple of years ago at Fashion Week and as long-time cat owners, immediately clocked that she should not have been exposed to that kind of life, we're sorry to say. We hope she felt happiness and peace in her time.

Always suspected as much. Her owners have squeezed every dollar out of her.

I'm surprised she was only seven years old. I thought the meme had been around for much longer than that.

I suspect she'd been in poor health for several years, since there hadn't been any new photos of her in a long time.

Tabatha did very obviously milk the whole thing to death, but it did earn her millions upon millions of dollars. That would be hard to resist, plus there are thousands of other pet owners who are doing the same thing, to a lesser degree. I am complicit since I follow several of those animals on Instagram. I love Crusoe the Celebrity Dachshund, but can't argue that he isn't being (lovingly) exploited.

Sad mews.

r13 Taking photos of your pets for Insta and maybe coaching them to do specific things for those photos that they sometimes don't want to do is one thing. But Tabatha constantly dragging Grumpy around all over the US to public events always made me cringe. Just doesn't seem like something a cat would enjoy.

Well the cat was retarded, so maybe it didn't affect her the way all the attention would affect a normal cat.

R16 I'm coming to shit on your porch!

R11, that’s sad if true. Rest in power Tarder (Tarter?)Sauce. Just going by own cats who do not have any major health issues, they could not handle the type of attention these viral pets get.

Someone on Twitter posted a photo of himself with Grumpy Cat that was taken in 2016, but I'm not sure how many recent appearances there had been. I'm sure the cat had physical issues.

The girl who owned him was very young and obviously a jerk but hopefully she wasn't mean to the cat.

some of the funniest memes came from that cat.

It seems odd that Grumpy Cat died from a urinary tract infection "complications" when she was only 7 years old.

Hope she's no longer suffering and I thank her for the laughs.

R21 I almost lost my one year old cat to UTI a couple of months ago. My vet said that some cats don't do well in dealing with UTIs. My cat was refusing to eat canned food and we end up having to feed him liquid foods through syringe. Luckily, he started eating on his own after two weeks and he was meds for almost a month.

This is an adorably clever and devastating title, OP

R7, UTIs are usually more of a problem for male cats. You have to spot the signs and react swiftly as it can kill a male cat within a day. I wonder if Grumpy Cat's dwarfism complicated the matter or was it solely the UTI. Cats can get all sorts of life threatening ailments from stress alone so the traveling and contact with strangers probably wasn't ideal for her. I was a fan of the memes and didn't have a problem with the owner capitalizing on the business opportunities, but disagreed with the travel and meet/greet shows for the cat. No matter how luxurious the travel, it's not a lifestyle for cats.

Wow it can kill in a day?

I've had my cat on urinary control food since he started developing crystals in his urine, and he's been fine since then.

Poor Grumpy Cat 😕

R23 in Europe it would be DEAD TO MIAOW

R22 So glad your cat is doing much better!

Guess I'm being judgmental of the owner, putting Tarder Sauce through all the stress of stardom. Hopefully her owner was attentive and did what she could for her pet's care and comfort.

My cats prefer kibble but from the day they were adopted (10 years ago), I made sure their primary food source was canned food. It's the most important factor in preventing UTIs. This is doubly important if the cats are male. Cats aren't big water drinkers so the moisture in canned food is the surest way to keep them hydrated. I even add water to make it a soupy mixture.

Let me clarify, if a cat has UTI BLOCKAGE, it could kill within 24 hours.

A woman told me how much she adored her male cat and that he went to the vet with a UTI blockage. She nearly lost him. But guess what, she kept feeding him kibble because she found canned yucky...I wanted to wring her neck.

So Sad.... RIP

Our elderly kitty's kidneys started to decline so we got him a kitty water fountain that he loved. It took him a few days to get used to it but he loved it.

It had to be cleaned weekly; that was a PITA, but worth it to keep him hydrated.

Seven years is way too young for a house cat to die. The extreme stress that traveling puts on a pet must have contributed to her early demise.

RIP cutie.

Water fountains are a PITA to keep clean. But yeah, I've heard they are great...if the cats use them. I bought a couple but my cats rarely drank from them. It turns out the soupy canned food they get 2X daily is all the hydration they need. My cat sitters tell me they do drink from water bowls when I travel and they only get canned once daily and eat more kibble.

One of the cats I sit for, loves to drink the faucet. He drinks tons of water that way. He's trained us all by jumping onto the kitchen and bathroom counters.

My cats love their fountain

I had a male cat that had two serious UTIs and we went with the surgery - penectomy. Now he's fine and no more worries. I feed them mostly canned food with just a small handful of dry once a day. Some male cats are more prone to developing the crystals in their urine but I hadn't heard of female cats having the problem.

My cats love their water fountain as well.

The Grumpy Cat movie was low-fi budgeted and looked it but I liked it. The reviews were largely negative but the movie had some good zingers without being mean-spirited and it didn't take itself seriously. I hope it becomes a Christmas movie staple.

That cat made them over 100 million dollars!

Anyone know how old she was?

Poor baby :(

R37 Grumpy was 7. I hope the stress of being dragged around didn't contribute to this cats health issues. Sweet little animal.

The meet and greets were off putting to me. Animals don't experience travel the way that humans do (as an adventure ). It is a stressor. And even some humans hate traveling!

How do you pronounce their daughter’s name? Chrystal? Cha-Rye-Stal? Christ-Star? Are they white trash?

My husband's cat died of a UTI a few years ago. My vet says it's a new thing - UTIs killing cats despite treatment.

We almost lost a female cat due to a UTI that didn’t respond to antibiotics and progressed to a kidney infection. After three days of hospitalization and lots of money spent, she pulled through with no permanent damage. Poor baby developed an aggressive oral cancer a year later. Shit happens.

UTI? Did her pussy stink?

I agree with you R24. I wondered if her dwarfism was a complication and agree the travel and exposure to all things playing a role.

But I loved looking at her and some of the tributes have been pretty funny. RIP Grumps.

Poor kittah. UTIs are painful and that's a sucky way to die. RIP, Grumps, now you can't be exploited anymore and the gravy train is over.

Traveling is bad for anyone, let alone a sensitive animal with special needs, and it dries you the hell out. This cat needed a calm, stable home with access to water all the time. Too bad the owner's greed took precedence.

It's my opinion, btw, what this owner is and how they treated this being. Most people consider their pets exploitable, so have at it and attack at will. It won't change how I feel about it.

W&W for OP. Another fun title under the DL's unique parameters for death announcements. Two in one week!

The flat face cats aren't usually allowed to travel by air because they have trouble breathing at altitude. I hope she didn't drag her along on planes too.

So we’ve determined that the owners permanently wounded GC’s self esteem by calling him “Tardar” and that he died under suspicious circumstances? Just trying to keep up.

I hear Grumpy Cat's owners have already sold the rights to his image to Cirque du Soleil for a tribute show!

What a sweet little thing. She deserved better owners than she got but then again, don't they all?

Poor pussy, poor pussy cat!

The original story that I tend to believe was grumpy was found with a starving litter of kittens. Two had the deformities of grumpy cat. The owner nursed them back to health and realized grumpy and her brother would need special care so they kept her and the brother was given to a family member.

I believe the story because it rings as true. I would have done the same thing.

Grumpy and her brother besides being physically challenged had issues with intelligence. Hence the name I refuse to call her by. If they had planned on making money on her I don't believe they would have chose the name they did.

So basically humans did a good deed and it happened to bring them money. Can't blame them for taking it. I hope it encourages others to do better by animals.

Grumpy was a working animal. There are a lot of them in this world. I hope she was as loved as she appeared but she had a cushy life for a working girl.

Cats don't have the same standards we do for what constitutes a "cushy life", r53.

He personally met and had a photo shoot with grumpy actress Aubrey Plaza. He was not impressed.

I would assume that Grumpy would have gotten the best of care, regular check ups etc, since he was bringing in millions of dollars for the owners. And Grumpy's vet also would have been well-paid so it would have been in the vet's best interest financially to inform the owners of any problems with Grumpy's health.

Grumpy Cat died because some DLers have not yet figured out he was a she.

In 20 years we'll find out in an unauthorized biography that he died of feline AIDS.

Grumpy cat died because y'all touch yourselves at night.

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a cat in a bad mood

Never knowing who to frown at

In a photoshoot

OP ......... That Title !

Despite my sadness, you made me giggle.

R56 Grumpy suffered from feline dwarfism and other ailments, a well documented fact. She had the best care, and was well loved not only by her owners, but by people all over the world.

OP ......... That Title !

Despite my sadness, you made me giggle.

Ha! I agree. That was a good one.

Well at least she got to meet some hotties along the way.

[quote]In 20 years we'll find out in an unauthorized biography that he died of feline AIDS.

It’s the number one killer of domestic cats.

Was she a Weinstein girl?

Aww. I loved Grumpy Cat.

I don’t know her.

So did the owners steal the joke? They sound kind of awful.

God bless her soul. I hope she is in kitty heaven.

R69- I thought it was the original video of Grumpy that went viral? That's the first thing that people saw of the cat and it wasn't until later that the memes started popping up. "I had fun once...it was awful" isn't the only caption on Grumpy's picture- there are a ton of them out there- "I hate mornings...and morning...and people", "Stop and smell the roses...I saw some on the freeway."

I think it's a bit much to assume that the owners "stole" this deliberately.

Grumpy is looking down on us from The Rainbow Bridge.

And she's smiling.

A few other gems from Grumpy .........

😾 "If you're happy and you know it, go to hell."

😾 "If I said anything to offend you, I meant it."

😾 "Scared of clowns? Good!"

😾 "I like the sound you make when you shut up."

[Quote] "I hate mornings...and morning...and people"

Lol something we have in common.

"There isn't enough coffee in the world to make me rise and shine."

Bitch stole my act!

It's being reported that they abused that cat. Drugged him all the time.

Well, that's a downer, R77. No wonder she was so grumpy.

I've just been to the shops, and I saw Grumpy Cat on the front of several newspapers. Quite a surreal moment.

All nine so soon?

R71, I read it was a picture of her that went viral. After people claimed it was altered or photoshopped, the owners made a video to prove it wasn’t. That’s when it supposedly took off.

R77, where did you read that?

Grumpy suffered from dwarfism, and also an overbite, thus giving her the appearance of a perpetual frown. I don't believe for a second She was abused. She was a very friendly cat toward strangers, and I do believe she was loved and cherished by her owner. You have to be a very special person to adopt an animal with birth defects & health issues, and I believe Grumpy's owner was such a person.

r82. It had health issues so what better to deal with it than drag the poor cat to countless conventions? I’m not saying I blame them for trading their cats health for millions of dollars, I mean who wouldn’t but cut the shit with how great they were.

People on Twitter who had pics taken with her said she was often lethargic and would barely ooen her eyes.

But as I said, I don't know that she did appearances after 2016 so they may have stopped because of stress or because it was hurting her. She had no appearances for her latest book, for instance.

Lesson for DL'ers: Your grumpy ass can't live forever! Grumpiness kills!

The owners did not adopt her, she was part of a litter of cats that was born in their home. They owned the mother cat, and Tard was from the second litter that was born in their home.

[quote] She had no appearances for her latest book

We are talking about a cat, right?

Pretty sure Millie had at least a few appearance for "her" book, r87, so cut the faux indignation. If it was good enough for your sister in cuntitude Bar Bush it's good enough for any other pet.

So you wrote something stupid. R88. It's anonymous. Take a deep breath.

So young.

Yes, R88, dogs are well-known for disliking new environments and attention from strangers.

I remember the year she was at SXSW the line to meet her was two city blocks deep.

No idea what r91 means by that, or why anyone would pretend to not know that animals featured in and/or who "write" books make appearances to promote it.

Even though more Grumpy Cat books were coming out recently, the cat wasn't doing promotions anymore, best I can tell.

My sister and her husband drove an hour, and stood in line longer to see this cat. I really don't understand why. I was hoping someone could tell me why. They are both educated, if not completely intelligent.

[quote]I remember the year she was at SXSW

Is this some sort of S&M club?

We may have something here.

South By Southwest. R95. It is a music and art festival in Austin, Tx. There is likely BDSM somewhere.

Everybody loves Grumpy. I sure did.

I'll miss my friend ^_^