She tried

The dog wouldn’t stop barking. So I joined in.

The dog stopped barking for a moment, staring at me.

Then the dog joined back in.

A cat came by and tried to bark along with us, but it had a difficult time.

The dog and I barked a little slower, with annunciation, in order to help out the cat.

The cat struggled for a while to match our barks. But it only ever sounded like a rough-hewn meow.