--- title: Meet Oreo the Ping Pong Playing Cat: Viral Video description: Oreo the cat plays ping pong. canonical: https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-26T12:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:09.745Z og:title: WATCH: This Cat Loves to Play Ping Pong og:description: Oreo the cat plays ping pong. og:url: https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0f220db9a42db5e/69868732e8524bd5d5601ff9/screen-shot-2014-03-25-at-4-29-33-pm.png?branch=production&width=589&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 589 og:image:height: 331 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-25 at 4.29.33 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: This Cat Loves to Play Ping Pong twitter:description: Oreo the cat plays ping pong. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0f220db9a42db5e/69868732e8524bd5d5601ff9/screen-shot-2014-03-25-at-4-29-33-pm.png?branch=production&width=589&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Cat Could Totally School You In a Game of Ping Pong by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 26, 2014 12:00 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 26, 2014 12:00 PM UTC This is Oreo. She is a cat who likes to sit in the middle of her humans’ ping pong table and do this thing where she sort of plays, but mostly just interferes and disrupts their game in the cutest way possible. When she does play, though, she’s rather dexterous, despite the fact that she doesn’t possess opposable thumbs. We’re impressed. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/"},"headline":"This Cat Could Totally School You In a Game of Ping Pong","datePublished":"2014-03-26T12:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:09.745Z","description":"Or at least, she could totally sit on the table and disrupt your match","url":"https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","cats","video","animal videos","oreo"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0f220db9a42db5e/69868732e8524bd5d5601ff9/screen-shot-2014-03-25-at-4-29-33-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0f220db9a42db5e/69868732e8524bd5d5601ff9/screen-shot-2014-03-25-at-4-29-33-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-25 at 4.29.33 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/37676/ping-pong-playing-cat/","name":"This Cat Could Totally School You In a Game of Ping Pong"}}]}] ```