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Cat gives birth to puppies

news.yahoo.com — Cat mates with dog... and gives birth to puppies.

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  • mhuggins, on 10/12/2007, -138/+23Whatever, they just copied off that cartoon Catdog.
    • CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -15/+158April 1st already!?
    • pvtjohndoe, on 10/12/2007, -10/+73Hmm.. I don't think I'd mind having a couple of Meowoofs running around the house.
    • aa3000, on 10/12/2007, -11/+418Nice cleavage
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -139/+4@CharlesDarwin, others:

      Way to abuse the comment system. None of your comments had anything to do with catdog.
      Are you new to the Internet?
    • retral, on 10/12/2007, -8/+56"last friday" - That means the 'puppies' can't be more than a week old - In other words they wouldn't have grown much, and those are some big puppies to be coming out of that cat.

      Probably BS.
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40Look, all I know is that that cat looks like it's about to kill someone if its babies are crushed by the girl's hands. She doesn't know how to hold a cat and it's genetically improbable offspring!
    • Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -29/+14You all say it's BS, but I believe!
    • rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -19/+9Interspecies. That is a HUGE step above Interracial.
    • raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+30This is absolute BS and it must be dugg down before it reaches our naive grandmothers, god only knows what will happen then.

      Inaccurate.
    • PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -11/+61@aa3000:

      Two words: "Brazilian…18."
    • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -27/+7why the hell is it getting dugg? Our you guys really that dense?
    • PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Since when did digg become "Weekly World News"?
    • garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25I don't know... "Our" we?
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -18/+12For all those complaining about different chromosome counts, could you provide more details. Because mules exist.
    • c5mjohn, on 10/12/2007, -18/+107I was laughing at some of these comments pretty loud. My girlfriend came over and wanted to see what was so funny. I let her read some of the comments. She is not very smart and didn't really get them at first. But then she started laughing. And then I started laughing. And then I punched her.
    • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Shun the non-believers!
    • mlwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -10/+75Sorry, but only on digg could something this wrong be marked as news.

      Here is what happened. Cat has three kittens, which all die. Cat goes out during the night and finds baby puppies, and because of maternal instincts, she brings them back to nurse. Stupid people go ape-*****, article is submitted to digg, more stupid people go ape-*****. Meanwhile the geneticist who hadn't finished his work, finally proves that this is not possible.

    • super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29All i want is a simple cowdog MOOF!
    • ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14It really depends. Zebras have anywhere between 40 and 60 chromosomes based on species and they're fully capable of mating with donkeys.

      Hybridization is completely possible with significant chromosomal difference as long as embryonic development is possible.
    • Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8@Hackwrench

      Why are you putting the burden of your ignorance on others? "Someone tell me or I'm just going to sit here in the dark and imply you're all wrong..." Do you have some mysterious kind of computer that gets Digg but doesn't get Google?

      You managed to figure out the complexities of the English language and, even better, the labyrinth that is learning to post on Digg. So now go onto Google and do a little reading on why making a mule or a liger is juuust a little different from making a catdog, or a monkeyperson, or even a whalagator.

      Then again, if this is a scheme to troll by impersonating someone with no intellectual curiosity whatsoever, then my hat is off to you sir -- mission accomplished.

    • Wartyboskfapped, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23mlwarrior is dead on the money, I know this because this exact thing happened to one of our cats years & years ago. She had kittens, only a few because she got pregnant very young. They all died & she went out that night, the neighbour's spaniel had had puppies around the same time, she took three of the puppies back to nurse in her box out of strong maternal instinct.

      *****.... or not!
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Let's review what everyone should know about reproduction.

      1. Cells in both a male and female split through the process of Meiosis. The resulting cells have half the chromosomes. In males, these cells become sperm; in the female, eggs.
      2. In order for the sperm's DNA to enter the egg, the protein coating surfaces of the sperm and the egg have to be compatible. I don't know how unlikely this is, but it seems to me to be a bigger factor than the number of chromosomes issue.
      3. Once the DNA is in the egg, the egg must then have sufficient instructions to reproduce. Much more is required for the descendant cells to produce a living organism. I don't see how the DNA count of the donating animals plays a factor.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis
      This is a starting point from which to determine whether a cat/dog hybrid is possible. So far, it hasn't been ruled out, but someone can continue from there and point out where in the stages it becomes impossible.
    • TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37"Nice cleavage"

      You're not seeing cleavage, you're seeing boobs resting atop a gut.
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@Humptydank
      I am "putting the burden of my ignorance on others" because "others" seem to think that all that is necessary for lifting the veil of ignorance is to shout out little more than "The chromosomes don't match!"
    • t3hNinj4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@jus1haz2
      I'm digging purely to spite you.

      And also because, I mean, a cat gave birth to puppies! This is a huge advancement in science, and I for one would love to have a cat/dog. With any luck, some day we may have tiger/lions, polar/grizzly bears and horse/donkeys! What a crazy world that would be!
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@mlwarrior and Wartyboskfapped
      Yeah, it does seem much more likely that is what happened in this case. However, it's a long way from that to cat/dog hybrids can never happen.
    • eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Actually tiger/lions exist, and they are called "Ligers," and can happen as tiger and lions belong to the cat family. They have been bred for circus acts. Zooligists and conservationists frown heavily on this.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger

      I suspect that the cat/dog combination is false, as cats need very specific conditions for ovulation and fertilizing that a dog would not be able to provide. More than likely this cat picked up some puppies and added them to her own litter. Or the dog next door was a very scruffy looking cat.
    • Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22In a related story, a local Brazillian man shows off monkeys that flew out of his ass.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check out the other pics.. there's 6 of them. http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/111606catbirthdogs

      ..sorry the other ones don't have Brazilian boobs though.
    • fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Cog? Dat? Caline? Fenine? Kuppy? Pitten?

      I'm so confused...
    • KniteWulf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7the idea that it is impossible comes from the fact that cats and dogs are not of the same species or family. it is possible for donkeys to mate with zebras because they are both relatively closely related, coming from one ancestor. cats and dogs, however, are not related in the least bit, and this would make it impossible for them to mate. learn some science.
    • mwosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah, how is this even remotely possible?
    • Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11BREAKING NEWS..Dog gives birth to Brazilians.
    • matthewaaron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@PatrickFisher

      You meant to say National Enquirer right?
    • Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@eclectro

      Congradulations, you are officially immune to sarcasm. It is now your duty to spread your ignorance among the other people of the world! (He was saying mules, ligers, tigons, and polar/grisley bears exist)
    • zeroFiftySix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Horses have 32 chromosomes while donkeys have 31 chromosomes. During meiosis, the diploid cells (normal cells - which in the horses' case would have 32x2=64 chromosomes) split into two haploid cells with only 32 chromosomes and same with the donkey. Mules are produced because the chromosomes (the 31 chromosomes on the horse and donkey haploid cells) are compatible enough, but the extra missing chromosome from the donkey is what is thought to make mules sterile because they're not complete. Well, they're not a complete horse (missing one chromosome) and not a complete donkey (has an extra chromosome) so they're inbetween in infertile.

      A cat has 38 chromosomes and a dog has 78. This is clearly not the same case as the mule where there was only one chromosomal difference. Something is afoot and thus this is why I believe it is wholly impossible.

      (zebras and donkeys are able to mate because some species of zebra have 31 chromosomes also - although it varies.)

      Also, keep in mind that a zebra and donkey can be considered to be somewhat genetically related and a human and an ape are genetically related. Also, horses and donkeys are pretty genetically related also. But, think about it, a dog and a cat? One is canine and the other is feline. Tigers and lions are felines so they're related also. I know, let's try to mate an alligator with a buffalo. They have four legs, right?

      pfft

      PS. SoupsMan's comment - it sucks. Like, a lot. Better if you go ask some one who didn't take high school biology twenty years ago. Genes are ON chromosomes. Chromosomes are MADE OF genes/DNA. Like letters in a word in a book, nucleotides in a dna strand in a gene in a chromosome. Man, its the same thing. right on.
    • Nuhkka, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0not sure but cant a tiger and lion mate and have babies? so why not dog n cat
    • bliz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4why dugg zeroFiftySix down? his comments about the chromosome number disparity is the most informative.
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would think that mules are infertile because meiosis divides the number of chromosomes and not the chromosomes themselves in half, which would break down without an even number of chromosomes.
    • Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2c5mjohn wins!
    • t3hNinj4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@eclectro
      I was joking; I'm a big Liger fan (tiglons are mediocre). Horse/donkeys do to, and they're called mules, and Polar Bears occasionally mate with Grizzlies.
    • ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ Mrkamikaze
      BREAKING NEWS..Dog gives birth to Brazilians.

      That is one huge litter. I think the world record is something like 16.
    • dBLiSS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The cleanliness of a dog and the loyalty of a cat!
    • longboarder543, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the link to all 10 photos.

      http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/111606catbirthdogs/im:/061117/ids_photos_wl/r3792466973.jpg
    • digg0digg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmmm. .
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfD8h0BeoBo
  • patrickbwells, on 10/12/2007, -6/+116This has got to be a hoax.
    • MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41At this point I'd like to quote the esteemed parapsychologist, Dr. Peter Venkman in saying, "Mass Hysteria!!"
    • inbred, on 10/12/2007, -28/+6Dude...this totally proves evolution!

      /obligatory evolution comment
    • Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5Evoltution? I was thinking global warming.
    • Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15Yeah, this is pretty much ***** impossible. For the cat to have given birth to total dog puppies (like it supposedly did), there must have had to have been another set of genes for the sperm to mix with (im oversimplifying the biological process, obviously), and that cat does not have dog genes.

      When was the last time you heard a human had sex with an ape and the ape had human babies? Oh yeah, never. (not to mention that we're closer relatives on the evolutionary scale than cats and dogs are). There is a reason why cats and dogs aren't in the same species: THEY CANT MATE AND PRODUCE OFFSPRING
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -5/+95This is not at all feasible. Cats have 38 chromosomes, dogs have 78. Reported as inaccurate.
    • tvc15, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17I was thinking 'Sign of the Apocalypse'. Isn't there something about dogs lying with cats somewhere in Revelations? ;-)
    • MrPerfect, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59no it's totally true I ***** out a zebra this one time..
    • dbug, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19"When was the last time you heard a human had sex with an ape and the ape had human babies? Oh yeah, never."

      Hmm. Now you made me wonder what human-ape offsprings would look like. Is that even possible?
    • culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Given how difficult it is to interbreed large cats in the same genus, the feasibility of the cat / dog offspring is nil +/- nil.
    • Asvetic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39If I was having sex with an Ape I don't think I'd be talking about it, let alone showing off our mutant babies to anyone...
    • Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14@ dbug
      "Hmm. Now you made me wonder what human-ape offsprings would look like. Is that even possible?"

      Dick Cheney.

      Jimzip :D
    • slicedoranges, on 10/12/2007, -31/+3@ dbug

      Sure, just plow a black chick.
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Given that humans with similar genes mating result in birth defects, while humans with more varied genes don't, I don't see how the difficulty of breeding similarly gened cats has any basis on the breeding of a cat with a dog.
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2When was the last time you heard a human had sex with an ape? For me. never, which would kind of be a prerequisite before I heard of heard a human had sex with an ape and the ape had human babies.

      Could the reason that we've never heard of a cat and dog having babies before is that humans haven't mated them and the times that they've been together they've never shown much interest in each other?
    • hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"the dna has to be directly spliced and injected."
      Somehow that doesn't appear to describe the process of meiosis.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiosis
    • irieKEN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21This is the kind of crap that happens when animals don't drink responsibly...
    • elShaggy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ignignokt01 says: "When was the last time you heard a human had sex with an ape and the ape had human babies? "

      Dude, when is the last time you heard of a human having sex with an ape, period?
    • NuclearBunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually, to fully quote Dr. Venkman. "Human sacrifice... dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria..."

      Oh. My. God.

      THE END IS BEGINING!!
    • KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"I was thinking 'Sign of the Apocalypse'. Isn't there something about dogs lying with cats somewhere in Revelations? ;-)"

      Ah yes, Venkman 12:10
    • SoupsMan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"Given that humans with similar genes mating result in birth defects, while humans with more varied genes don't, I don't see how the difficulty of breeding similarly gened cats has any basis on the breeding of a cat with a dog."

      OK, first, Genes and Chromosomes are COMPLETELY different.

      Genes are things that determine stuff like hair color. the details.

      Chromosomes are the building blocks in the nucleus of every cell that reproduces by division. Kind of like...LEGOs I guess, or like socket sets. Let me explain:

      2 species mate and the sperm and egg get together, they form a Zygote or something similar. It turns into a cell. In order for a cell to reproduce, it needs 2 matching sets of chromosomes from both parents to set off the chemical reaction when the nucleus from the egg and sperm form together. humans have, say 32 (I dont know, i made up a number). 32 in the egg and 32 in the sperm combine to 64, then split evenly to 32 again and go reproducing untill the DNA, or genes, say so.

      That is a very basic way of it working. Take freshman biology in highschool and its alot more complex and eaiser to learn.

      to explain mules, using made up numbers, Horses have 56 chromosomes, and donkeys have 57. Apparently when the chromosomes are only 1 appart AND the DNA is almost the same (those two things usually correspond to each other) they can mate BUT there are defects. Mules are Sterile. Cant mate. Unic. Asexual. This happens 99.9% of the time. Although im sure its 100.

      Humans and all other primates have more than a one chromosome difference. Chromosomes can vary in any species. But only in the reproductive organs, and only by chance. Sperm and eggs some times have an extra chromosome attachted by random mutation. while the skin, liver ect. have the normal chromosomes needed to keep regenerating.

      And if any one pays attention to the whole Neandertal/homoerectus stuff, untill we get living cells to determine the chromosome count, we will never know if they could mate. DNA is a good, but not 100% indicator. Neandertal and Homo Erectus cam from the same species, but were seperated by roughly 100,000 years when a group headed north in a migration and did so well enough to differ. Same applies to donkeys and horses. a group of early horses migrated away from the middle east/africa and were seperated for 100,000+ years. Mutations happened.

      Geeze, i hope this makes sense.

      And if you want to get really technical and learn stuff, wiki it! google it! GO TO A LIBRARY! thats what i did. reading is fun! stay in school, because knowledge is power!
      /school house rock
    • evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i just read about 20 people talking about human-ape hybrids and just thought id let you all know. HUMANS ARE APES. we are a part of the great ape family (hominids). go look it up if you dont believe me.
  • kevincupp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51I know a thing or two about Biology, and I'm sure the cat could not give birth to puppies without it having some sort of major genetic defect (if it would even work at all). During conception, the chromosomes from each parent are put together, and I'm pretty sure you can't mix DNA with instructions on how to make a cat and DNA with instructions on how to make a dog. Interesting, but it sounds like someone just wants attention.
    • kevincupp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Though it did say a few of them died and had cat-like features, it's still pretty sketchy.
    • zenmouse, on 10/12/2007, -13/+11If you knew a thing or two about biology, you'd know that different species are often cross-bred in order to create favorable offspring. For example, mules are the offspring of horses and donkeys. "Mixing DNA" is exactly what happens. That said, I doubt this is true. There is only so much genetic variability that can occur before the animal's body would reject the fertilized egg- that is if the egg were somehow fertilized by a kind of sperm it's not programmed to receive.
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18@kevincupp:

      See my comment above. Cats have 38 chromosomes, dogs have 78. You're totally right. This person is a moron.
    • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The chromosome count is the #1 issue.
    • nbx909, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5yeah it's impossible, two different species can not mix just out of regular sex, the dna has to be directly spliced and injected.
    • zenmouse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Actually chromosomal count isn't always indicitive of genetic compatibility. A lot of "hybrids" are spawned from parents with different chromosomal counts. There of course are usually some odd characteristics associated with ummatched chromosomes, the most common being sterility or in plants lack of seeds. Oh, and yes plenty of species can have hybrid offspring without in-vitro fertilization.
    • hplasm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Nickleodeon. they are behind this...

      http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/display_show.jhtml?show_id=cat
    • scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2EXACTLY what I was thinking. I don't know a whole lot about biology. But I would think that if they were somehow able to create an offspring, it would be a very bizarre creature with defects (if it got very far past the embryo stage that is) and not a cute "cat-dog."
    • PeteSalty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@ zenmouse

      If you knew anything, and I mean ANYTHING, about biology you'd know that both donkeys and horses are part of the Equidae family.
      Cats are however not part of the Canine family, nor dogs part of the Feline family.
      Which is why, when you breed horses and donkeys you get mules, but when you breed cats and dogs together all you get is one ***** off cat. You ***** moron.
    • VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5PeteSalty is correct. The mammals have to be at least in the same ballpark to have a chance of conceiving without artificial help.

      People digging him down are morons, or fundamentalists (although the latter pretty much implies the former).

      What's next? people start thinking a bird ***** a turtle and creates Gamera?

      So many imbeciles....Zenmouse cheif among them.
  • fuknuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+69pig and elephant dna just won't splice
    • nottidredd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16yea haven't you ever heard that song by loverboy?
    • Harbinger67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25If you get them good and drunk they will.
    • 47f0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5@fuknuck
      "pig and elephant dna just won't splice"

      Yeah, but donkey and elephant does sometimes - witness the last elections.
    • niczar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Interesting factoid I read I don't remember where ... from DNA analysis, the closest known extant species to elephants is the elephant shrew -- which is a few cm big.

      It's called an elephant shrew because it has a little trunk as a nose.
  • HisLordUberdude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2They managed to get an African and Asian elephant to mate...but what the heck is up with that dog?
  • Shayer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14This is creepy, to say the least
  • Keropipi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37isn't that impossible?
  • HisLordUberdude, on 10/12/2007, -20/+10I know a guy who claims to have been bitten by a dog when he was a baby, and now his doctor says he has certain bone 'growths' that are only found in dogs...

    ...this may be slightly more feasible.
    • poet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Haven't you ever heard of Peter Parker? Who cares that the spider was radioactive, it bit him and changed his DNA.
    • SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Only in a lab...
    • UnderWurlde, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Well, Mr Know-it-all, isn't that what happened with Spider-Man? The boy got bitten by a spider, and the DNA morphed... : )
    • hplasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1...if only to werewolves.
    • HisLordUberdude, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@Jimmygoon

      I didn't say I believed him. Just that he claimed it.
    • niczar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2There's a sexually transmitted disease among dogs, which is not a virus nor a bacteria or a fungus ... it's actually a doggy cervical cancer that's gone autonomous.

      I, for one, welcome our new caninous cancer overlords!
    • zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DOG JAW!
  • mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6First the fake Steve Jobs interview and now a Cat that gives birth to puppies!
    The rapture is coming!!!!!
  • ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28I'll wait for the DNA tests...
    • TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24sign them up for Maury
    • slack3r17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"You are NOT the father"
    • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You are the father pause not.
    • KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Man, I watched Maury the other day and it was sick; a dude and a chick who had a kid needed a paternity test, but not for the kid. They had to find out if they were brother and sister AND THEY WERE!!!
      I think seeing that ***** scarred my brain.
    • dgendreau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@slack3r17
      Yessssss! *does touchdown dance*
    • cello, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"You are (pregnant pause (pun intended)) not the father of 2 year old Brittney-Sue."
  • shad0w, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
    • yuutokun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Is this some ongoing joke or something? I've seen this in several posts and it always gets buried. Please someone fill me in.
    • TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yahoo does not need a mirror
  • Fairchild, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8*cough* BS *cough*
  • nemoder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
  • EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4All pray to the Algorithm God, that he may save us from the flood!
    • EbowUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to say hi to all the myspace users that dugg that down.
  • Berkana, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Man, f'ing horny dogs. . . there's something profoundly wrong with this. But if true, they should get a geneticist to look at it.
  • UCFartstudntJON, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3LOL Brazil, LOL
  • koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3They look beautiful...
    ...
  • WhitePanda, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Shenanigans!!!!!!
    • eecue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says 'shenanigans!'
    • MalaysianMafia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Hey Favre! Whats that place you like to eat with all the goofy posters on the wall and the mozzarella sticks?
    • prgmctan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Shenanigans!
    • dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hey, are you guys talkin' about Shenanigans!?
    • Renork, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Shens!
    • rockmusicnerd, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1damn someone beat me to the quote
    • DaJackall, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0OMG, I love that movie.
  • oskite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11So can it be called bestiality when there's no human involved?
  • unncola, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This isn't possible... for things to mate they have to be of the same genus or is it family...
    • fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't think this is possible but I'm pretty sure that "genus" and "family" are just words we use to categorize life, and while they might be used to describe trends, it's not like the sperm goes up to an egg and says:

      "are you in the same genus as me? the rule is that we have to be in the same genus. or is it family?"

      no, it does not work like that. weird crap happens with life. life is weird!

      this has GOT to be fake though (like someone said 30 some chromosomes vs. 78?)
    • aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3>>I don't think this is possible but I'm pretty sure that "genus" and "family" are just words we use to categorize life

      For an animal to be in a different species they have to be incapable of of mating and producing offspring either by mechanically or chemically means.

      Cats and dogs aren't remotely related, its very unlikely that a dog mated with a cat to have puppies, anybody can make claims, we'll see when test results come back.
  • missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Yeah, I call shennanigans. I might believe that a cat and dog mated (highly unlikely and nearly physically impossible), but I sure as hell am not going to believe that there were any offspring as a result.

    Sorry, nope.

    Ask anyone with more than a high school knowledge of biology and they'll tell you it just isn't possible.

    Also, those puppies are larger than newborn kittens. If that cat could even physically carry six of those (which I highly doubt, there's got to be some limit to how far that uterus will stretch), she'd be -enormous-.
    • VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"anyone with more than a high school knowledge of biology"

      Apparently you're expecting a lot of our fellow diggers, based on how high this got dugg...
  • squirrelza, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15That is one sweet pussy
  • Jack9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Why do people digg obvious internet drivel?
    • stvspl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30what, Reuters is "internet drivel" and a vision of Jesus on a dog's ass isn't?
  • ZombieFrog, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Uh... isn't this one of the 7 signs of the apocalypse? I'm headed to the store to buy bottle water right now!
    • elShaggy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2only the bottled water will save you when the time of tribulation comes.
  • NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Ohh...
    Whatabout a Condor? Wouldn't that be cool?

    Then you'd have flying puppies.
  • modian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24There are definitely some puppies in that photo.
  • napier, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Cats? Dogs? Where are they? All I could see was the set of twins in the background....
    • uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3dude, she's only 18
    • napier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@uptown
      Look, John, I'm sorry
      I'm not sorry, okay?
      I'm not gonna apologize.
      I'm a *****.

      And A) 18 is legal and B) I was merely stating that they are quite prominent and distracting in the photo
    • reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1_only_ 18? well im _only_ 21... so fair game
  • venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11ABOMINATION! They must quickly be killed to prevent the rise of the Cog or Dat, or whatever other weird combination of letters it might become.
    • hplasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0isn't DAT officially dead now anyway?
    • VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cthulinoid bird: "Awk! Polly shouldn't be"
  • groovehouse, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I call shenanigans!
  • Lahonda, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Democrat election ad! That's it.
  • 703_KN33, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18Nice cleavage!
  • psygnisfive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1... The cat would have been split in half. Let's be serious.
  • blankman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8This is definitely fake. You can not interbreed different species. While it is possible in some special instances (horse+donkey=mule), you can't mix dog and cat. There's not even the slightest chance at making a baby. Even humans and chimps, who share 90+ % of their DNA can't conceive a child.
    • 47f0, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5@blankman
      "Even humans and chimps, who share 90+ % of their DNA can't conceive a child."

      uhhh - you might want to reconsider that:
      http://www.philosophiste.com/images/bush_chimp.gif
    • duality, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think you're right. For one thing, feline DNA has 38 chromosomes and canine DNA has 76 chromosomes. Even if you tried to do this in a lab with cloning technology, whatever you came up with is not likely to resemble either a cat or a dog, assuming it possesses any quantity of life at all.
    • VorpalK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@47f0: Wow that's so fresh and original. That's the first time I"ve heard that oh so clever joke.

      When the same stupid ***** is happening 6 months from now now that the opposing party has control of congress, maybe you'll realize that it has more to do with ALL politicians being self-serving attention whores than any particular party affiliation. I'm older than 12, so I already know that from experience.

      You keep on holding on to that frothing hatred of a person's name you can barely spell, based on what your teacher told you though. That's sure to make things turn out all right.

      Keep on wishing, bucko.
  • lazyman0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I call B.S. I am a biology major and there is no effing way this could happen. Its also awfully convent that the puppies look like the cat. If anyone has every experience a litter of kittens they generally look totally different.
    • stvspl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i'd call it pretty "convent" that you're not a spelling major
      :) just kidding, but yea. BS it is.
    • retral, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"convent"? The whole fact that you totally butchered convenient kinda nulls your "call".
    • MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7why is it that these "majors" always have to resort to "I'm an effin this, or I'm an effin that"
  • Talus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10How did this tripe make it to the front page?
  • fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Those just look like newborn puppies, coloring similar to the cat, but that's not strange.
  • rasbill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe because i didnt say 1st post my post got erased, but ill say it again,

    *****
  • d0zy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is what most likely happened...

    the dog may have dry humpd the cat
    but some other cat is the father of those kittens
    but the kittens obviously have some genetic problem
    some of the litter died because of this
    but those that survived will live out the rest of their days with kitty down syndrome

    we had a litter of puppies that came out all retarded like...
    all died within a week except for one blind one dat died about a month later
    pretty freaky looking at a blind dog/pup
    • hplasm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you had a 'dat' also? It's spreading...!!
  • omoishugo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8maybe they are just ugly kittens
  • Dignin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5His Holiness the Flying Spaghetti Monster saith this in reference to Brazilian born pussy-pups: All dogs go to heaven; cats, not so much so. For further information please consult the FSM handbook under the section titled, Brazilian: A Section for Women.
  • zdiddy85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15are they going to chase themselves?
  • lazyman0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Yeah, spelling isn't my thing.
  • eMuleDude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19That woman had nice puppies alright. ;)
  • ghoulie4458, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4catdog has nothing on wholphin. seriously, say wholphin out loud, i bet you can't do it without laughing.
  • esojz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think its more likely that that cat went and found some puppies and added them to her litter after her kittens died. Its not that uncommon for one species to "adopt" another species young.
  • bigstinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Dog plasma, People plasma....Betty, I can't eat this slop...Fix me some ham-n-eggs"
    • KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Is that from The Far Side or something?
    • tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you're a good kid.
    • bigstinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's from an old Hannah-Barberra cartoon where an ambulance shows up and mixes the plasma of a dog with a person. tehmoth nailed it with the, "you're a good kid." Ah, the memories. Thank you tehmoth, I didn't think anyone else knew.
  • simpleprimate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So what would you call this a cog or a dat or maybe fake?...Maybe we should wait till the blood samples come back.
    • lazyman0, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Alright, I see your point science is high and mighty, but can’t explain everything and really doesn’t explain everything. Honestly no one should trust anything science has to offer. They are all theories that will remain theories till they are disproved. However, with that said and you disregard all views of genes. What would the adaptive or evolutionary benefits to the cat-dog hybrid? What do cats need that dogs have? Cats are more evolved then dogs. Look at the big cats around the worlds. A tiger would totally kill any canine. “But dogs travel in packs”… So do the big cats. Lions travel in packs. Now I am not saying dogs are dying off in our lifetimes. I am just saying that cats are a bit better off evolutionary wise. I actually prefer dogs for one they are always happy to see you. You really have to work for a cats attention. Not to mention if dogs and cats started making hybrids they couldn’t breed and would eventually die off.
      -ignore grammer errors this is digg not a term paper.
    • Humptydank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@lazyman0

      You're high, aren't you.
    • missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lazyman0, you make me laugh. You have some silly ideas.

      By the way, gravity is a theory, too. Just so you know. Go ahead and disprove gravity for me, buddy.
    • MeatBiProduct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1gravity is an objects desire to be reunited with the earth - duhhh!
  • lutzlstein, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is true! I want there to be cat dogs, and can't you Bio majors just admit that sometimes we can't explain everything with our current scientific knowledge? Let's just say for a second (and this is totally just an example and never ever happened and was never the bases of an entire field of scientific exploration) that the universe orbits the Earth, or that the changing seasons are a direct result of the Earth moving closer and farther away from the Sun.

    Oh wait...

    And no, I'm not saying that cats and dogs have always been able to mate and we just haven't realized it, but let's just assume that this might be an interesting topic for genetic research, even if it's just to prove that the whole thing is a hoax. You know, just because you are alive today doesn't mean that today is the apex of existence. There ARE still things to discover, and I thought that's what scientists were here for, assholes.
  • coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That lady has big boobies.

    Also that's totally genetically impossible.
    • ray901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not genetically impossible, plenty of women have big boobies
  • bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I declare shenanigans on whoever believes this!
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