# Could you mate a tiger with a kitty?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-mate-a-tiger-with-a-kitty/395349 "2007-03-10T04:22:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-mate-a-tiger-with-a-kitty/395349/21 "2013-02-18T08:23:37Z")

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I do regularly mate a cat with a lion. The end product is me getting a lot of scratches.

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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-mate-a-tiger-with-a-kitty/395349/22 "2013-02-18T10:18:17Z")

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> [@AaronX](#):
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> But would the result win in a fight with a lion?

I’m sure there are links out there that will settle the question. Now if only someone would start a thread to provide them.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-mate-a-tiger-with-a-kitty/395349/23 "2013-02-18T15:31:51Z")

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Might it be easier to cross a cougar and a tiger? Cougars and housecats are both about equally separated from tigers, by lineage, but a cougar is at least closer to tiger-sized.

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