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From: jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (John Donald Collier)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Cats and Rabbits
Message-ID: <592@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 29 Apr 91 11:23:52 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.152146.1353@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:
>I have just been told that cats and rabbits can mate under 
>domesticated situations, producing offspring called "cabbits".
>I was uder the impression that rabbits were rodents and cats were
>felines, and that such a mating could not be successful.  If this
>correct?  Could someone please comment on "cabbits".

Yeh, they showed a picture of a cabbit on the local TV news program 
in London Ontario about 13 years ago. It was raised by a local farmer.
It sat on the rear steps, eating a carrot, with a bunny's tail, and
pointy cat ears. It was clearly a hoax, but the local station was 
taken in. They published a retraction about a week later. I don't 
know which I found funnier, this cat's face gobbling down the carrot
(cats might eat carrots, but they don't gnaw and gobble) or the realization
that the station had been taken in. Cabbits are actually a common rural
phenomenon, along with unicorns.


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