will science ever successfully cross a cat with a dog?

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and why haven't they yet?

― cogs & dats, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Was Dog a Doughnut?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Your search - "crossbreeding cats and dogs" - did not match any documents.

― cogs & dats, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Mass Hysteria!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

Crossbreeding, no. Cats that will substitue as dogs, no. But dogs that will substitute as cats, sure. You can get a mellow, furry lapdog that, apart from having to walk it, will exhibit none of the behavior that cats owners usually despise about dogs. WEitness the shi tzu.

'Course, it still won't purr.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Somewhere in the world -- probably China -- cats are being trained to operate animatronic dog suits, and vice versa.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Cogs and dats

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

i can't take the word science seriously since this year's Big Brother.
"see, if i get haf of a cat and haf of a dog and mash dem up and get some glue on it, I MADE A CROSS BETWEEN A DAT AND A COG, YA GET ME???"

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geforce.dk/archive/Pics/catdog.jpg
They're working on it, have a little patience...

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

come on, arent we really just talking about a fox?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

What would be the benefit?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

convenience!

― latebloomer: i hate myself and want to fly (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

the loyalty of a dog, the picky eating habits of a cat.

― latebloomer: i hate myself and want to fly (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

The stupidity of a dog and the malice of a cat.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

http://img.lj.com.ua/dashing/1218_cat_dog.jpg

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I would prefer that the scientists spent their time creating the permakitten before moving on to cogs and dats.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

hmmm. (WMV video)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Gareth Keenan to thread.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Anyone know the chromosome numbers? Anyway, we already have cogs and dots and DATs, so they'd legally have to be called cags, which is just unpleasant, so there is no point.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

and why haven't they yet?

Actually they have. I can't be arsed to look up the thread on another board, but they posted a pic of the creature. I believe it. Others say it's a just some urban legend or whatever. I *want* to believe. ;)

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Why would you want to? And cross-species breeds are usually infertile, I think I've heard (mules e.g.?), so you wouldn't get a second generation of pupptens/kitpies, which would surely be the best thing about it.

― spontine (cis), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Jordan about permakitten. Also, would like to see an baby panda whose growth would max out at, say, 25 lbs.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Now I want a puptten! and a kitpie!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I refer to my kitten as a puppycat, especially when he begs for food and follows me around the house.

― elmo (allocryptic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22crossbreeding+dogs+and+cats%22

― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

i love how stoically the cat is taking the dog-humpin' in that photo upthread.

― latebloomer: i hate myself and want to fly (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

"successfully"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/truth_about_cats_and_dogs.jpg

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

http://www.members.cox.net/city_of_arkham/catdog.jpg

"Merril Runcible, with painstaking genetic manipulation and a little help from a Certain Book created the Catdog, which had a short-lived reign of popularity in 1971.

Unfortunately, due to its having both canine and feline genes, it would chase itself into exhaustion at the least opportunity."
(http://www.members.cox.net/city_of_arkham/famous42.htm)

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

arent cheetahs a weirdly doggy type of cat? something abt their paws (non retractable claws maybe??) and their faces look a bit doggy too

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/bigbrother/media/latest-pics/day53/d53_1330_sciencepose_g.jpg

oh wait not that Science oops

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

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