It is possible to find a crossbreed between a lion and a tiger, they are called Ligers or Tigons. I bullsh*t thee not - http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/ligers.html
If the same were to happen with cats and dogs, would they be called dats or cogs? And would the babies be called cuppies or dittens (awww how cute!)
Would you feed them tins of cuppy cog or ditten dat (as opposed to kitty kat for cats)?
2006-12-12 03:11:55 · 11 answers · asked by Cale 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Dogs and cats can't breed. You'd need to do it at a genetic level. And who's going to do that? Mind you, someone got a research grant for dunking biscuits..............
I should add that ligers and tigons are genetic freaks, and don't live long.
2006-12-12 03:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by big_fat_goth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dittens and cuppies? Hmm cute maybe but impossible as far as we know. Ligers or Tigons were only possible because both species are in the same genus but they dont breed true - the ligers are infertile - its the same with mules.
Domestic cats and dogs arent just different genuses. They're different families.
If genetic engineering creates something like that in the future im sure you could feed them 'cuppy cog' or 'ditten dat' as you saw fit.
2006-12-12 08:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty story, but genetically impossible. Cats and dogs have a common ancestor, sure, but so do cats and people, and dogs and mice, and every single mammal that's around. Cats and dogs belong to different taxonomical families - they have different chromosome nubers and different genes on different chromosomes that mean that no such thing as pittens or kuppies could be produced. Yes, horses and donkeys can breed to produce a STERILE offspring - the mule or hinny, but that's because they're extremely closely related members of the equus family with very similar behaviour/courtship. Cats and dogs aren't even that close.
And puppies couldn't be born from implantation in a cat's womb - the DNA would be rejected by the mother as completely foreign. Its being tried between camelids (alpacas/llamas etc) and an embryo doesn't implant even between these two very closely related species, so there's no way we can implant two such diverse species as a cat and dog, who are as closely related as a human and a lemur, or a horse and a rhinocerous.
As I have, for my shame, copy and pasted this from the answer I gave to the last person who asked this, I'll also add that lions and tigers are as closely related as horse and donkey, rather than the cat/dog or human/lemur relationship.
2006-12-14 04:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by caladria 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dats would have dog fathers and cat mothers. Cogs would have cat fathers and dog mothers. I'd say a dat baby is a pupten, and cog baby is a kitpy. Pupty dat, kitpy cog.
2006-12-12 03:18:27 · answer #4 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Animals coming from different genus do not mate, let alone produce an offspring. Cats belong to the Felis genus, while dogs are on the Canis genus. Any news claiming success of such is a hoax.
2016-05-22 23:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tigers (Panthera Tigris) and Lions (Panthera Leo) can reproduce (same genus) but it would not create a new species as they say that the Liger or tigons cannot reproduce.
as for dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and cats (Felis sylvestris catus), they are not able to reproduce (closest relation at the sub-order level)
2006-12-12 03:53:22 · answer #6 · answered by MaRTIN 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dogs and cats cannot breed they need to have the same number of chromosomes for this to happen, then the genetic content should be compatible so that a cross can actually develop beiond the blastocist stage
2006-12-15 05:44:46 · answer #7 · answered by Prof. Hubert Farnsworth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You couldn't breed a domestic dog and cat together, the DNA won't splice.
Whilst lions (feline: Retractable claws) and tigers ('canine: Non-retractable claws) can breed, the offspring would be sterile, like mules (donkey and horse hybrid).
2006-12-12 03:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hear this is possible....in cartoons.
The thing with lions and tigers is they are both big cats. Cats and dogs are too different, I'm not sure they would ever "mate" so to speak, LOL.
Very interesting proposition though.
2006-12-12 03:14:55 · answer #9 · answered by strawberrycrush 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In answer to the last part of your question they would eat either mabbits or rice
2006-12-12 03:21:19 · answer #10 · answered by dsoc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋