I had a cat who I could have full-on conversations with. She and I would meow back and forth for minutes at a time. She would usually initiate, but I would carry on with her. There’d be little meows and big meows. Some were drawn out while others were staccato. Nonchalant meows would be interspersed between deliberate and firm meows. Our conversations could sometimes become quite heated.

But she never sang. Nope, she was not a singing cat. Just a chatty one. I wish she sang! Oh, how wonderfully weird that would have been. That’s why 59-year-old Pam from Ohio brought her three-year-old golden retriever, Oscar, onto “America’s Got Talent” because apparently, this dog can in fact sing.