if you mate a dog and a cat what would you get....(is this even possible)?

Question

a lesson in experimentation......!

Answer 1

it isnt possible but i dont think it would be a good idea even if you could.:-)

EDIT: here is something i found from someone on another site



No, it is not possible.

The definition of a �species� is the ability of two organisms to mate, and produce fertile offspring (that is, the offspring are themselves capable of mating and producing further offspring). If two organisms can do this with one another, then they are of the same species.

Sometimes, organisms of two very similar species can mate, and produce an offspring, but the offspring produced by such a mating, called a �hybrid�, is sterile, and cannot produce any further offspring. *

A mule is an example of such a hybrid. You cannot breed mules with each other to get more mules; mules are sterile and cannot reproduce. You get a mule by breeding a horse with a donkey. A horse and a donkey are two different species, but they are close enough to breed and produce a sterile hybrid offspring � a mule.

Cats and dogs are not nearly that close.


* There actually is a very, very, very small chance of a hybrid organism being able to mate and produce offspring. This has to do with the manner in which the hybrid's chromosomes are shuffled in producing gametes (sperm or egg cells). There is a very small chance of producing a gamete which has all the same chromosomes which that hybrid got from one parent; and such a gamete would be compatible with a mate that is of the same species as the parent whose chromosomes are in that gamete.

The odds of this happening are one in (2 raised to the power of N), where N is the number of pairs of chromosomes that the organism has in each cell. I only know this N for humans. We humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. If there was some other species, that was similar enough to us to mate with us and produce a hybrid, then if that hybrid mated with either a human or the other species, and conditions were otherwise right for this mating to be successful, the chance of success in this case would be one in (2 to the power of 23), or 1 in 8,388,608.

Answer 2

No, it's not possible. If it was, it would have been done long ago.

You can interbreed several cat species together, and breed several of them with domestic cats. For example, it is possible to cross an African serval with a domestic cat...the offspring looks like a big domestic cat with long legs and leopard spots.

You can also interbreed dogs and wolves. The offspring look like huskies and other sled dogs.

Cats and dogs both belong to the order Carnivora, but belong to different suborders. That means the split between the ancestors of dogs and the ancestors of cats occurred very early in the Carnivora family tree.

Seriously, it would be easier to cross a dog with a bear or a cat with a hyena than it would to cross a cat with a dog. They're that different.

The common ancestor of both probably looked more like a modern mongoose or weasel than either a dog or a cat. Here's a pic:
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Answer 3

You can't mate a feline with a canine.

Interspecies mating sometimes works in similar species such as a donkey and a horse, but there would be no offspring for a cat and dog.

Answer 4

It is impossible. It wont work because they are not in the same species. Humans can only mate w/ humans because we r homo sapiens (a species). A dog and cat r in a different species then each other. Therefore they cannot mate and produce offspring. Do u understand??

Answer 5

Dogs and cats are of different species, and part of the definition of species is that they are reproductively isolated from one another--they can't produce viable offspring together. At this point, we are unable to breed a dog with a cat to produce a litter of either pittens or kuppies.

Answer 6

its not possible most animals dont breed out of there own species....unless in captivity like lions and tigers make a liger but outside in the wild the liger would not be able to survive because tigers and lions come from totally different habitats.......and even in captivity a cat and a dog would not breed and if they did the female wouldn't get pregnant.

Answer 7

they have different number of chormosones.
Dogs, coyotes and wolfs have 78 and can mate.
A chicken also has 78 chromosones but would not mate with a dog.

A cat has 38 chromosones as does a lion and also a pig.
To successfully interbreed animals have to be closely related and have the same number of chromosones.

Answer 8

I don't think it would take. But you'd have to do it invitro. A boy cat has little barbs on his thingy. When he pulls out, these barbs stimulate ovulation and then conception.

Answer 9

It would be just a thing.......it would be cruel and inhumane to do that because the offspring wouldnt live very long and have major deformities. It would be in pain from day 1 !

Answer 10

It is not genetically possible to mate a canine with a feline, their DNA strands are incompatible.