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alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I have 4 more cats thanks to a brother/sister encounter before I got them fixed... :/

Didn't they come out with like 2 heads and 8 legs and stuff?

Nope. Contrary to popular belief, offspring from related persons don't always exhibit deformations.

Also mating cousins and siblings is common in animal breeding. The social stigma aside, the main reason inbreeding / line breeding is both good and bad is that it can get you recessive genes in the progeny.

Many recessive genes are bad, but some are very desirable esp in the animal market.
 

DaShen

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Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I have 4 more cats thanks to a brother/sister encounter before I got them fixed... :/

Didn't they come out with like 2 heads and 8 legs and stuff?

Nope. Contrary to popular belief, offspring from related persons don't always exhibit deformations.

True, It is just a higher probability that they will exhibit something, not neccesarily that something will happen. But even still.... <shudder>
 

irishScott

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My Aunt had two cats that I caught doing it at 2:00am Kinda strange. They just stared at me, didn't move at all for abou 2 min while I got some food and went back to sleep. Then the mewing continued.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: moshquerade
just cause they're fixed doesn't mean that don't still want to do the nasty does it?

It should more or less (it's castration rather than a vasectomy for the male and an ovario-hysterectomy for the female, removal of both the ovaries and uterus; rather than the typical removal of the uterus only in an hysterectomy).

However; if done early enough they don't learn certain behaviors normally. If the animal learns certain actions bring a nice feeling they are going to try and repeat.

An animal though is not self-conscious really, if they learn something feels good they will usually repeat it (sometimes bringing it's owner to beat them moronically). Usually animals that get good amounts of attention (this doesn't have to be 24/7, but it can't be a non-daily event) do not develop self-destructive or problematic habits.

 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Bootprint
Time to get them spaded, or you'll end up with kittens.

It's spayed.

However OMG that kitty is a food finding machine now ;) My eyes teh goggles do nothing I SEE, I SMELL da food!

I hope it lives a nice life.
 

yowolabi

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Jun 29, 2001
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I have 4 more cats thanks to a brother/sister encounter before I got them fixed... :/

Didn't they come out with like 2 heads and 8 legs and stuff?

Nope. Contrary to popular belief, offspring from related persons don't always exhibit deformations.

yea you can survive it once pretty easy, but if you do it generation after generation like royals then the defects pile up and it goes to sh*t.

Which is why dog breeders have such a high rate of abnormalities. They routinely breed dogs with relatives to ensure that they can maintain a certain look.

 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: yowolabi
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
I have 4 more cats thanks to a brother/sister encounter before I got them fixed... :/

Didn't they come out with like 2 heads and 8 legs and stuff?

Nope. Contrary to popular belief, offspring from related persons don't always exhibit deformations.

yea you can survive it once pretty easy, but if you do it generation after generation like royals then the defects pile up and it goes to sh*t.


Which is why dog breeders have such a high rate of abnormalities. They routinely breed dogs with relatives to ensure that they can maintain a certain look.

huh? most real breeders won't let themselves have abnormalities. They may have a few, but not a high rate....if they did why would anyone buy their stock.

stick with things you truly understand. Quoting hemophilia was teh funney in inbreeding discussion though.
 

Mark R

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Originally posted by: ADDAvenger

Edit: Look at this guy and then look at his ancestry thing. I'm giving a :cookie: to whoever can explain it to me. I've figured that he had two sets of great-grandparents (instead of the usual four) but after that I got lost. Suffice it to say, his family tree resembles a stick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_Austria

His parents were double cousins. Marriage between first cousins isn't universally taboo, although some cultures do discourage it.

It is slightly unusual to have marriages between double cousins. In this case, his mother and father are related, are cousins not only because his father's father and mother's mother are brother and sister, but also because his father's mother and mother's father are also brother and sister. (Hence double cousin).