Meowl The Owl Cat

Meowl, also known as Cat Owl or Owl Cat, refers to a Photoshop edit of a cat and owl hybrid creature with an owl's body and a cat's head, seen standing on a branch. The original image was created in 2013 by Chinese Weibo user zhumaokele. Similar photoshops spread on the internet throughout the 2010s and 2020s. The Meowl image received increased attention in 2024 and 2025, when Meowl memes spread on TikTok and Twitter / X, among other platforms.