--- title: Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail description: Hillary Clinton wants a barking dog to fact-check Republican presidential candidates, and she imitated the animal during a rally in Nevada canonical: https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-16T13:18:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:06:11.444Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail og:description: For real og:url: https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaefcf3683f4caa05/69887dc53c1639b5c445c0a5/hillary-clinton-reno-nevada.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Reno Ahead Of State's Democratic Caucus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail twitter:description: For real twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaefcf3683f4caa05/69887dc53c1639b5c445c0a5/hillary-clinton-reno-nevada.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 16, 2016 1:18 PM UTC  Democratic Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at Truckee Meadows Community College on Feb. 15, in Reno, Nevada. Democratic Presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at Truckee Meadows Community College on Feb. 15, in Reno, Nevada.David Calvert/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 16, 2016 1:18 PM UTC Hillary Clinton would like a barking dog to fact-check the Republican presidential candidates, so much so that [she imitated the animal during a rally in Reno, Nevada](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-barks-dog-condemning-republicans/story?id=36959846) on Monday. It started when Clinton told the crowd about a favorite political radio ad from her days in Arkansas. “The announcer said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if somebody running for office said something, we could have an immediate reaction as to whether it was true or not? Well we’ve trained this dog and the dog, if it’s not true, he’s going to bark,'” the former Secretary of State said. “I’m trying to figure out how we can do that with the Republicans, you know? We need to get that dog and follow them around and every time they say things, like, ‘Oh, the great recession was caused by too much regulation—'” she said, before imitating a dog’s bark. “I think we could cut right through a lot of their claims.” Clinton has turned her attention to campaigning in Nevada ahead of Saturday’s Democratic caucuses in the state, where her opponent [Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been closing in on her lead](http://time.com/4215117/new-hampshire-primary-results-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-fight/) in the polls. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail","datePublished":"2016-02-16T13:18:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:06:11.444Z","description":"For real","url":"https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaefcf3683f4caa05/69887dc53c1639b5c445c0a5/hillary-clinton-reno-nevada.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaefcf3683f4caa05/69887dc53c1639b5c445c0a5/hillary-clinton-reno-nevada.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Reno Ahead Of State's Democratic Caucus","caption":"Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Reno Ahead Of State's Democratic Caucus","creditText":"David Calvert/Getty Images","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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4225438/hillary-clinton-bark-dog-video/","name":"Hillary Clinton Barked Like a Dog on the Campaign Trail"}}]}] ```