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The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence

The 5 Coolest Pets Humanity Has Bred into Existence
Scientists love themselves some genetic engineering. Like all uses of science, selectively breeding animals can result in creepiness -- we recently covered a handful of designer pets that seem specifically designed to haunt your dreams. But domesticated gene meddling isn't completely immune to awesomeness. Sometimes, just sometimes, what comes out of the test tube is less Cthulhu and more like the kickass pets you always wanted as a kid. For instance ... #5. So Pets Unless you're a circus performer or a member of a Vegas act, chances are your interaction with big cats is limited to visits to the zoo and the occasional tiger rampage. Take the wild-ass serval, an African wild cat that is ridiculously inappropriate for snuggling: Wikimedia CommonsSeen here hungrily eying your liver. But what if science somehow combined that thing with, say, a regular house cat? Funny Pet Wallpapers Because that's what they totally did. Newspaper.liShortly thereafter, it was elected Emperor of Cats. #4. #3.

Kitten Care Basics | How to Care for a New Kitten | Caring for a New Kitten Raising a kitten is one of the most fun things you’ll ever do, but it’s also a big responsibility. The following guide will walk you through the basics of how to take care of that playful, purring bundle of fur. Kittens are so cute, it’s understandable that cat owners sometimes wish their kittens could stay kittens forever. 1. Though it’s not something you have any control over, your kitten’s age is more than just a number. 2. If you don’t have a vet in mind already, ask friends for recommendations. One of the first things you should do with your new cat, if not the very first, is take him in for an exam. 3. Have your vet recommend a type of food, how often to feed, and portion sizes. 4. Feeding a kitten isn’t as easy as grabbing a bag of cat chow at the nearest convenience store. 5. To keep up with your kitten’s appetite, you’ll want to establish a daily feeding routine. Get advice on the best way to litterbox train your kitten. 6. 7. 8. 9.

best animal photobombs ever… Photobomb - (verb) to drop into a photo unexpectedly. An otherwise normal photo that has been ruined or spoiled by someone who was not supposed to be in the photograph. hahaha! so THAT’S why I love cats!! via www.buzzfeed.com Like this: Like Loading... Filed under animals, art, family, funny happenings, life Tagged as animals, camera, cats, dogs, funny, horses, Kodak moments, pets, photobomb, Photograph, photography, pictures

Good Morning Kitten - Cute Kitten Pictures and LOLs The Most Photogenic Dog on the Internet The 17-year-old photographer Jessica Trinh shot her dog Chuppy. This lovely golden retriever is very likable.In addition to great photography, I think it is very harmonious relationship of Jessica and Chuppy, otherwise it is very difficult to shoot such a warm photo. Source ,Source Catlicious Caturday: Your necessary dose of Cat GIFs is here Cats are perhaps the funniest of all pets. And thanks to the magic of GIFs, we can now pack cute little cat-doings in a GIF animation and serve it up to you. Check out the following hilarious cat GIFs to fulfill your Caturday requirements.

Liger.org - Photos and Videos of Ligers and Tigons BBC News | SCI/TECH | Zebra hybrid is cute surprise A Shetland pony on a UK farm has surprised its owners by giving birth to a half-zebra foal. The hybrid animal, now a week old, appears healthy and is bouncing around its paddock at the Eden Ostrich World, at Langwathby Hall Farm, near Penrith, Cumbria. The owners of the pony, called Tilly, had no idea she was pregnant when they bought her from a wildlife park, where she had been kept in a field with a male zebra. "She was fairly fat when we received her and we thought that she was getting fatter," Karen Pete said. "It really was a bit of a shock when we got up one morning and we saw the foal that was there. We realised then what had happened." Genetic difference A cross between a horse and a zebra is rare but by no means unheard of. The Cumbrian foal would probably be called a zorse, although some commentators have suggested it might better be termed a zetland. Hybrids are an interesting curiosity. Hybrids are not easy to create, however. A horse has 64 chromosomes; the zebra has 44.

Hybrids Between Leopards and Lions Leopons are the offspring of a male leopard and a lioness. They have been bred in zoos in India, Japan, Germany and Italy (this latter was more correctly a Lipard - offspring of a lion and leopardess). Karl Hagenbeck, who produced many different hybrids, recorded the birth of leopons at the Hamburg Tierpark in Germany, but none survived to maturity. A leopon "flat study skin and skull" from the Kolhapur Zoo in India (bred in 1910) was donated to the British Museum of Natural History by Lt Col FW Wodehouse of the Junior United Services sometime before 1940. The leopon is documented in R I Pocock's letter to The Field of 2nd November 1912 and the 1913-14 Vol. of the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. "So far as I am aware there is no published description of a hybrid lion and leopard. The most successful and famous leopon programme was at Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan. In terms of size, the leopons take after the lioness mother and are larger than leopards.

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