They're Breeding Cats and Dogs

DSP · (#1 (**permalink**))

Brazilian student Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, holds her cat Mimi together with what Cassia claims are Mimi's own offsprings born with dog traits last Friday, three months after mating with a neighbour's dog, in the southern Brazilian city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, November 15, 2006. A geneticist from the Passo Fundo University plans to take blood samples from the animals to verify the claim by Cassia and her husband Rogerio that the puppies are part of Mimi's litter of six, of which the three that were born with cat features died soon after birth, leaving the surviving three dog-like offsprings. REUTERS/Edison Vara (BRAZIL)

jett Black · (#2 (**permalink**))

If there is even an iota of truth to this story folks better start stocking up on cannned goods and water from now!!

Canine and Feline producing successful off-spring??I'm no geneticist but I think not.

DSP will you remember to follow up this story when the tests come back from the lab please.

Thanks.

YankeeJamaRican · (#3 (**permalink**))

C'mon now... i would understand if it was some Mengele-esque super secret genetics lab in Stockholm or something but...

some poor folk who tried to breed a dog with a cat? naaaaaaah

methinks mommy cat was just doing a little foster carefor the pups

DSP · (#4 (**permalink**))

jett Black wrote:

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If there is even an iota of truth to this story folks better start stocking up on cannned goods and water from now!!

Canine and Feline producing successful off-spring??I'm no geneticist but I think not.

DSP will you remember to follow up this story when the tests come back from the lab please.

Thanks.

I would hope this wasn't true. I read aboutfailed attempts of Russians post WWI kidnapping women in Guinea and trying to breed them with apes, so I would hope this wouldn't work either.