--- title: Woman Teaches Dog to Meow Like Cat: Viral Video description: Because why not? canonical: https://time.com/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T18:00:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:16.675Z og:title: This Brilliant Woman Has Trained Her Dog to Meow Like a Cat og:description: Because why not? og:url: https://time.com/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Brilliant Woman Has Trained Her Dog to Meow Like a Cat twitter:description: Because why not? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Brilliant Woman Has Trained Her Dog to Meow Like a Cat by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 6:00 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 19, 2016 6:00 PM UTC Once you’ve gotten your dog to master basic commands like sit and stay, it can be fun to train them to perform more advanced tricks. Or maybe even train them to do [household chores](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Fyey4D5hg) like fetching the mail and loading the dishwasher. This woman, however, took a less useful but more entertaining route. She has trained her pup to meow like a cat. At first, when told to meow, he barks instead. Eventually, though, he masters the meow, and receives a treat for his efforts. Once he really gets the meow down, this could become a great parlor trick. ([h/t Daily Dot](http://www.dailydot.com/lol/dog-meows-like-cat/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/"},"headline":"This Brilliant Woman Has Trained Her Dog to Meow Like a Cat","datePublished":"2016-02-19T18:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:16.675Z","description":"Because why not?","url":"https://time.com/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4230510/dog-learns-to-meow/","name":"This Brilliant Woman Has Trained Her Dog to Meow Like a Cat"}}]}] ```