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From the Muppet Show Fan Club newsletter

Foo-Foo is Miss Piggy's dog, who appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of The Muppet Show. She speaks only in barks and other typical dog sound effects.

From The Muppet Show Fan Club newsletter (vol. 2, no. 2): "Can you tell which is the live dog and which is the puppet? Miss Piggy's new dog, Foo-Foo, is not really one puppy, but two. The one on the left is a puppet, modeled on the live dog on the right. It took a long time to find a puppy small enough to be in scale with Miss Piggy. The live Foo-Foo was born on December 13, 1978. She is a special sort of toy poodle and is one of the last ten of her particular line, a line bred down to the smallest possible size from a standard poodle. Foo-Foo is still growing, and as she grows, the puppet Foo-Foo will be rebuilt to match. When fully grown, she will still be less than nine inches tall. Watch carefully when Foo-Foo is next on the show -- if she's running around, it will probably be the live version. If she's reacting in close-up, it will probably be the puppet... but you can't be sure...!"

Foo-Foo was performed by Steve Whitmire, but according to Whitmire:

I think [getting the part] was largely because Dave was going to do it but he didn't really want to do it. Foo-Foo was kind of a prop for Miss Piggy in a lot of ways. It was just something for her to play off of. [1]

The Foo-Foo puppet made a few appearances on The Jim Henson Hour, where Foo-Foo was called Freddie. She later made a cameo in Kermit's Swamp Years.

Filmography

Book appearances

• Two for the Show
• Miss Piggy Sound Board Book

References

1. ↑ Plume, Kenneth Muppet Central Interview