# Barking cat.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 21, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311 "2011-06-21T17:07:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/1 "2011-06-21T17:07:20Z")

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Cat’s are cats and dogs are dogs and never the twain shall meet…Waaait an second. [Barking cat](http://www.komonews.com/news/topline/124238159.html)  
Of course, it trys to keep it’s cross-speciesism secret, but it got caught.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/2 "2011-06-21T17:12:25Z")

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Love it, but I want to know what it was trying to communicate with and about!

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/3 "2011-06-21T18:31:18Z")

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My mother and I just cracked up for a good 5 minutes over that.

The YouTube title, Zapalili, apparently translates in a couple languages to “set on fire” or “burned.” I’m thinking it’s an idiom meaning “caught red-handed” or “busted,” can anyone confirm that?

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/4 "2011-06-21T20:28:07Z")

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In Russia…no doubt. Hmmm…what happens in Russia? There’s a funny meme in there somewhere…

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**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/5 "2011-06-21T20:52:41Z")

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In Soviet Russia, catdog burns you!

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**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barking-cat/586311/6 "2011-06-22T00:35:15Z")

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I had a cat we got from a shelter. He was rescued before his eyes even opened. Unfortunately he was placed in the shelter in a busy time of year. So this days old kitten was place in the dog room, because there was no room in the inn… err the cat room in the shelter. So in some ways he imprinted on dogs. He would sit in the window and bark at passerbys just like the cat in the video.

We named him cat. He seemed like he needed the reminder.