Just logging off AOL & this story caught my eye. If you can look at AOL Lifestyle, this brazilian woman claims her cat mated with the dog next door. It gave birth to 3 dead kittens & 3 live puppies. Just checked the date & it is the 17th Nov. & not the 1st of April, isn't it? There is a lovely picture of the cat suckling the puppies, but I don't believe a word of it!!

She's been on the pop! That's totally physically impossible.

Oh yeah!!!   I wonder how long a tie they achieved :rolleyes:

As they say in Brazil "puxe outro - seus sinos começados sobre!"

or do they say "¡tire el otro - sus campanas conseguidas encendido!" ......I'm never sure which is the language of Brazil :D :D :D

Margot

It's a genetical 1 over 8,000,000 chance of them producing 1 viable hybrid off spring let alone three +

Don't queen's only ovulate after they have been mated something called reflex ovulation, so have to be mated at least twice

Yes that's right MM, so a queen always has to be mated at least twice for there to be any possibility of pregnancy. Also the spikes on the male's penis helps trigger ovulation and a dog don't have them!

Interesting point: one of the pups appears to have been docked?!

Thanx Marrianne I thought it had something to do with the tom as well which dogs don't have but(semior moment)couldn't remember,

So the possiblity which is already extremely remote is even more unlikely !

This is the story, I hope they do follow it up with the results of the blood tests :)

A Brazilian woman claims that her cat has given birth to three puppies after mating with the dog next door.

The Daily Mail reported that Cassia Aparecida de Souza, an 18-year-old student, said that her cat Mimi had given birth to a litter of six.

Three looked like kittens but they all died, leaving three which resembled dogs, she told the Mail.

Scientists had taken blood samples to determine to see if the remaining trio really were half cat and half dog.

However, experts told the Mail that they were very sceptical.

"You could never say never in science, but it seems very implausible to me," Professor Robin Dundar, an expert in evolution from Liverpool University said.

He believed there were two potential explanations: Mimi had suckled the pups after she had lost her own litter and the pups had been orphaned or the offspring were mutant cats that just resembled dogs.

Some queens (quite commonly!) suffer from what is referred to as "the bigger, better kitten syndrome". She will see somebody else's kittens, older and therefore bigger than her own, and think that as they are bigger than hers, they must be better -and so she steals them. I've had this happen. They really do seem to think bigger is better. So my thought is this queen nicked the puppies somewhere (stray bitch that ahd hidden her pups whilst out looking for food?), and her own kittens simply died because they were smaller and could not compete for the milk with the pups.

Beats me why anybody can be stupid enough to think there is any doubt of them being anything but puppies, and wasting money on bloodtesting....... :rolleyes:

Yes, that sounds pretty viable, looking at the photo's of those pups??? Well, they are pups aren't they, not some hybrid.  It is a complete wind up, well I'm 99% sure it will turn out that way.

After all despite what has already been said with regards to cats breeding, I'm pretty sure if a dog would ever :-D tie with a cat the screeming, scratching and halabaloo from the cat would have woken up the whole neighbourhood.

I'm guessing that it will be very difficult for a little cat to nurture these puppies without a great deal of assistance and supplimenting so I hope the exposure of the bunkum it surely is, does not come too soon and remove the incentive for this owner to bother to help them and keep them alive.

Funny comment on the Daily Mail site saying if postmen are frightened of dogs what are they going to be like when they start jumping down from trees at them :)

Many years ago I went to see a litter of pups, the bitch had decided to whelp in the airing cupboard and her owners had left her there with her babies. Within in 48 hours of the pups being born, the owners two cats moved into the airing cupboard and both had a litters of kittens. All pups and kittens cross suckled, and neither feline dam nor canine dam seemed to be bothered which was which. It was the most bizarre thing to see.

I have seen two cats sharing their kittens,a and also heard of two Finnish Spitz sisters that had been mated to the same dog and they shared their pups too.

Years ago, we had two cats that had litters within a day or two of each other and they shared their litters the whole time they were rearing them.

We also took in a stray cat once who gave birth a couple of weeks after she arrived (total shck as we'd thought she was male previously...so Bob became Roberta overnight :D).  We kept a couple of kittens from the litter and after they'd been weaned off Mum, they would suckle off our neutered male cat.  Obviously they weren't getting anything but they would spend ages padding his stomach and sucking his fur   He seemed to enjoy it and would let them do it for as long as they wanted

I had a Golden bitch who suckled a rescued puppy and 2 litter of kittens all at once. :D

And friends of mine had a little Dachshund who ignored her own first litter of puppies but next year diligently "mothered" a clutch of chicks.  It was so cute to see the 20 or so little balls of yellow fluff all snuggled up next to Elsa's long tummy.

Let's see if dogs have 78 chromosomes and cats have 38 what do you think cogs would have? 58? :-D :-D