People are interested in domestic cat hybrids because they look different. This cat is basically a Maine Coon with curled back ears and some vague pointing on the coat. But …
3-way cat hybrid: Maine Coon, American Curl and Siamese Read More »
The best source for information of this kind is Sarah Hartwell’s messybeast.com. She is quite clear on this. While lions, jaguars and leopards can all mate with each other to …
Can tigers mate with: leopards, jaguars and lions? Read More »
Yes, domestic cats can and do mate (breed) with wildcats. There is a slight complication in answering the question to do with definitions. The word ‘wildcat’ means the species of …
Hybrid cats can be divided into three categories, entirely domestic cat hybrids (domestic cat x domestic cat), wild cat hybrids (wild cat x wild cat) and wild cat/domestic cat hybrids …
Hybrid cats – domestic x domestic, wild x wild and domestic x wild Read More »
Ligers are real but unnatural. The liger is a hybrid from a mating between a female tiger and a male lion. The lion and tiger don’t meet in the wild. …
Recent research tells us two things about the Chinese mountain cat aka Chinese desert cat: they are hybridized and they were not involved in the cat domestication process. Hybridization Hybridization …
Chinese mountain cat is hybridized and was not domesticated Read More »
This is a photograph of a cat which is the result of a mating between a serval and a caracal. They are called Caravals, as I understand it. This is …
We know that the Scottish wildcat is either extinct in the wild in Scotland or very nearly so because of long-term hybridisation with domestic and feral cats. These two species …
European wildcat in western Switzerland threatened by mating with domestic cats Read More »
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