What Happened to Tika the Iggy?

Tika the Iggy died on November 4, 2025, at the age of 14, from complications following surgery to remove tumors from her liver. Her owner, Thomas Shapiro, announced it to her 1.6 million followers with the words that were always true: she was the dog that changed his life. Fashion lost its most quotable critic, and the internet lost one of its last great originals.

“Love it. Couldn’t wear it.”

Tika was an Italian Greyhound from Montreal with a wardrobe of more than 400 outfits and, more importantly, opinions about all of them. She had been a fashion account since 2016, but the moment that made her a household name came in 2020: Tika regarding an outfit while a voiceover delivered the verdict every fashion person has thought and none had compressed so perfectly: “I love it. I just… I love it, and I couldn’t wear it.”

The clip went stratospheric, CBC covered their hometown star, and the formula that emerged was flawless: Tika models a look, frequently custom-made, always immaculate, while the voiceover supplies the inner monologue of a diva who has seen everything and is only occasionally impressed. Fashion magazines profiled her the way they profile actual designers. Her front-row appearances were treated, correctly, as news.

The practical truth under the glamour

There was honest substance beneath the couture. Italian Greyhounds genuinely need clothes: whippet-thin, nearly furless, and heat-hemorrhaging, an Iggy in a Canadian winter without a sweater is a dog in real distress. Tika’s 400-outfit closet was functional gear that got fabulous, the exact combination Boo’s wardrobe pioneered, taken to its couture conclusion. And she visibly loved the ritual, which is the part that matters most.

Fashion’s dogs, together

Dog fashion’s two monarchs left barely a year apart: Bodhi the Menswear Dog in November 2024, Tika in November 2025. Between them they proved everything a dressed dog could be, his stoic professionalism and her theatrical judgment, and the entire pet-fashion world that thrives today was built on runway they cleared. Fourteen years is a full life for an Iggy, and Tika spent hers warm, adored, and impeccably dressed, which is to say: she had it all, and she could wear it.

She is remembered with all the internet’s famous dogs. Somewhere the two of them are being photographed right now, and the light is perfect.

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