Grumpy Cat

Grumpy Cat

By Mia M. Burkholder

Grumpy Cat is one of the most beloved cats in the history of google. Whether it’s just looking up her funny memes or frantically trying to find her real name, this cat has taken the world by storm and people worship her (or else!)

The famous cat was born in April 2012 as “Tardar Sauce” Bundensen, which was adorably misspelled by their six year old daughter. Her first meme (“I had fun once, it was awful”) had over 28,000 views in the first 24 hours and that was what launched Grumpy’s career.

Tardar Sauce is famous because of her grumpy expression due to feline dwarfism and a severe underbite. Grumpy Cat won the Friskies Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013, at only 1 year old.

Miss Tardar Sauce was born in Morristown, Arizona. Her owner, Tabatha Bundensen, worked as a waitress. At 29 years old, Tabatha had no idea that soon her kitty would be one of the most famous cats on this earth.

On September 22, 2012, Grumpy being less than a year old, Ms. Bundensen’s brother changed her life. He took a couple of pictures of the soon-to-be-famous cat and posted them on Reddit. It went viral and people across the nation started making memes of Tardar Sauce, the most common one being, “I had fun once, it was awful.” It had more than a million views on Ingur in the first 48 hours. Overnight, Tardar became a star. Her owner was able to quit her job only days after the famous kitty was revealed to the media. “The phone still hasn’t stopped ringing since.” Tabatha said in a magazine interview. The Grumpy Cat family has earned over $100 million in the past two years and they’re doing pretty well, considering Tardar has made more than Britney Spears and Lady Gaga in 2014 and 15. “We always knew she extremely unique, but we didn’t know that she would be this magnitude of special.” Tabatha tells the press at Tardar Sauce’s 2nd birthday.

Now Grumpy Cat gets to travel a lot for the press, but she likes to make separate stops sometimes to see her brother, Pokey, and visit family out of town.

Superstar, meme model, award winner, cat idol, Grumpy Cat basically has taken over the world- what else could she possibly add to this never-ending list? Of course- movie star. In late November of 2014 Tardar Sauce starred in her own movie, “Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever”. She acted alongside the amazing Megan Charpentier, who played Chrystal, Grumpy Cat’s friend in crime. Recently, she also released a book called “A Grumpy Book” (pretty fitting,huh?) and over 1 million copies have been sold. She also released a drink at Starbucks called a “grumpuccino”.

Although Tardar Sauce may look grumpy, and be nicknamed Grumpy Cat, really she is a very happy and cheerful cat who loves to play! Many people think that because of her grumpy expression she might as well be the meanest cat on earth-they are completely wrong! “She is one of the happiest cats I have ever met!” A friend of the Bundensen family said. “I’m sure she would smile so much if she could change that grumpy expression of hers.” another commented.

Besides feline dwarfism and an underbite, Grumpy is very tiny, the size of an older kitten, but tiny is anything but what you can use to describe this kitty’s fame. She has taken the world by storm and I’m pretty sure soon the earth will be ruled by Miss Grumpy Cat herself.  

If Tardar Sauce can take over the world in less than 24 hours then ANYTHING is possible. I guess we should all start preparing for the zombie apocalypse then.