I found the name of the kitty from Roaring Kitty's profile picture

* mods - please don't ban - it's true investigative research, it is not AI

We all know this cat from u/TheRoaringKitty's profile picture. But until now, we didn't know its name.

To get into how I figured out the cat's name, we first have to look into the origins of the photo.

This iconic stock image of a kitten taken by photographer "jkfoto" in 2008 is available for sale on these 2 sites, iStock and dreamstime.

iStock didn't have any info on who jkfoto was, but on dreamstime, his full name is listed in the author credits, "Jiří Kasal".

This is where I thought I hit a dead end. dreamstime has no contact information. But his profile did have one clue to narrow down the search.

His location was set to Dačice, Czech Republic. I had Claude do an internet search for any Jiří Kasal's near Dačice and I found out that he is a lawyer now:

Luckily his website contained his contact information so I was able to reach out to him regarding the cat's name. I translated my question to Czech and sent it to his email.

For 3 days, nothing. Not a word back. I started to think that maybe he didn't use that email, maybe he thought I was wasting his time since I wasn't a client, maybe I had the wrong Jiří Kasal.

But the next day, I got an email in my inbox. He responded with the name of the kitten, which hasn't been public since the photo was uploaded in 2008.

"Hello, you've found me right.

This is a village kitten, born to my wife's parents in a village building, i.e. somewhere in a barn or attic. Most of these kittens were usually donated to someone in the surrounding villages, including this one.

We called this particular kitten "Tygr". It lived a village lifestyle, i.e. it walked around the area wherever it wanted, received food on the doorstep, an ideal combination of freedom and security.

I'm sending a link to the village where the kitten was born:

Best regards

Jiří Kasal"

And there we have it. Tygr (meaning tiger in Czech), is the name of the famous "Roaring Kitty" himself. A pretty big addition to the Keith Gill lore.

I have attached some proof of my findings to this post and you are welcome to contact Jiří to verify them as well, but please do not spam or harass him. He is a busy lawyer and was very kind to even acknowledge my request. Please keep it respectful if you do contact him. I have redacted his full email for privacy but you can easily find it online.