Cat gives birth to dogs?
Cat gives birth to dogs?
I saw this in The Sun, so take it with a pinch of salt!
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Blood tests debunk cat-puppy birth claim
Blood tests have refuted a Brazilian woman's claim that her cat had given birth to three puppies, geneticist Adil Pacheco says.
Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, from a poor neighbourhood of Passo Fundo in southern Brazil, said last Friday that her cat Mimi had given birth to the three puppies as well as three kittens, which did not survive.
"People who aren't experts often imagine things," said Dr Pacheco, director of the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University of Passo Fundo.
"All the facts contradict her."
Mr Pacheco, who was asked by a local newspaper to conduct a chromosome test to check the spectacular claim which gained wide media attention, said mammals sometimes nursed the young from another species.
- Reuters
Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, from a poor neighbourhood of Passo Fundo in southern Brazil, said last Friday that her cat Mimi had given birth to the three puppies as well as three kittens, which did not survive.
"People who aren't experts often imagine things," said Dr Pacheco, director of the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University of Passo Fundo.
"All the facts contradict her."
Mr Pacheco, who was asked by a local newspaper to conduct a chromosome test to check the spectacular claim which gained wide media attention, said mammals sometimes nursed the young from another species.
- Reuters