in reply to A first one-liner

Here's a one-liner that will do much the same thing:
perl -pale '$_=join"\t",@F[2,0,1]'
Or, to match the behaviour more closely:
perl -pale '$_=join"\t",@F[2,0,1];@F^3&&last' >> OUTFILE INFILE
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print