Friday, 20 March 2015

Teddi in the spotlight

In an unexpected turn of events, my YouTube cat, Teddi, has extended his fame this week by appearing in at least six Scottish newspapers - two of whom laid claim to the talented boy by calling him a "Scottish cat" and even alleging that he "spent his formative years" in Falkirk.

He appeared first in the Falkirk Herald, and you can read the article here: 
click here to read.
And then I was contacted by another newspaper, the Daily Record, who also wanted to feature him in a funny news spot on their website: click here to read.


The Daily Mail was next (click here to read) and, before we knew it, the "cat who thinks he's a dog" angle went viral: the story was featured in half a dozen more newspapers, some of them making outrageous claims that I was going to enter Teddi in talent competitions or take him to see if he could make a name for himself in Hollywood! I began to get emails saying that people had spotted Teddi on news websites as far afield as Australia and India. A friend in the USA was reading a cat lovers' website and stumbled across an article featuring one of Teddi's videos and referring to me as Tobi and Teddi's "momma." One of Teddi's YouTube videos took a thousand new hits in just a couple of days, and got a couple of new subscriptions from people in China and Canada!! Meanwhile, my handsome boy is quite oblivious to his new found fame and is working hard on his piano practice for his upcoming music video.