What crazy cat lady doesn’t have a million nicknames that she calls her beloved furbabies? Well, I have taken to calling cats in general “puddy tats”, after Tweety Bird’s famous line from Looney Tunes, “I tawt I taw a puddy tat!” “Puddy tats” got shortened to “puddies” or “puds”, and then mutated into things like “pudsters” and “Mr. Puddy”.
However, I had no idea until recently that there was actually a song “I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat” that was released in 1950. It sold more than 2 million records and even reached No. 9 on the Billboard pop chart! Wow! In 2011, Warner Bros. made a 3D animated short for the song:
My sister and I came up with our own short little version that we sing:
I tawt I taw a puddy tat a-sleepin’ next to me
I did, I taw a puddy tat as cute as he could be! ♥
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