The pictures on that site are horrible, but I’m betting they’re a breed of cat known as Munchkins. As others have said, no actual rabbit/cat offspring. Someone’s yanking your chain on the cabbit thing.
Where did you think Easter eggs come from, then? 
Also, FWIW, the Twisty Cat.
In the class Mammalia, cats are in the order Carnivora and rabbits in the order Lagomorpha.
As I wrote earlier, rabbits and cats are not even in the same order.
Sorry wood, you’re right, it was just a brain-fart. Still, there has never been a cross-family breeding, or a cross-order breeding.
This question was bumped up to the higher authority a while back. Dex? Any word?
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And they’re not on each others Christmas card lists.
RM: <<This question was bumped up to the higher authority a while back. Dex? Any word? >>
Huh?
On the jackalope, please note that Cecil recently did this one to death in a column.
The pix on the site are either deformed cats… or someone got themselves a copy of Photoshop. Or both!
Current thought is that wolves and dogs actually are the same species, and that what we thin kof as Canis familiaris is simply a domesticated variety of Canis lupus. African wild dogs and Aussie dingoes are thought to be all in this species as well.
Also, animals do crossbreed (rarely, when forced) but plants are known for lots of cross-breeding, naturally. This is how we got several citrus fruits, different species of corn, and so forth. I must admit I’ve no idea whether there have been interfamily crosses or not, though I’d suspect not.
LL
I can accept that, but I’ll still point to the phenomenon of coydogs - the coyote is Canis Latrans, and can hybridize with the domestic dog. The hybrid is not nearly as common as some people think, but is at least possible. A coyote-wolf hybrid may be possible, too, apparently. Coyotes have turned up in the Eastern US in the last few years, and the Eastern ones are bigger than their Western counterparts. You can find opinions like this on the reason for that:
Quoted from “The Cape Cod Times”:
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/archives/1999/aug/8/coyote08side.htm
http://www.geocities.com/b120282/pictures/easter.jpg
Makes me wonder if Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner were really ‘just friends’.
As far as I’m concerned, the inbreeding of deformed animals to create or propagate the deformity is an example of the worst kind of human arrogance, and the reason I got my Manx cat spayed. (We had a Manx when I was a kid, and I bought one as an adult. The further I looked into breeding her, the more horrified I became. It changed forever the way I feel about inbreeding pets for deformities and pedigrees.)
In regards to another aspect of this discussion, why some species of plants or animals tend to hybridize and others do not:
The concept of “species” is a human invention, and necessarily somewhat arbitrary in its application. As organisms evolve, they follow no codified rules; they just change over time. The point at which enough changes have accumulated for them to be designated a different species is not a distinct one, and taxonomists just do the best they can, like the rest of us.
So hybridization is just an illustration of the inexact nature of taxonomy. This is not to say that if two species hybridize, the taxonomists got it “wrong” and they should be one species; only that the concept of “species” has soft edges and gray areas.
I received an email from you timestamped Sat, 20 May 2000 16:58:17 EDT from the TheStrDope@aol.com address, asking about my question “Are there cabbits?” You said you were screening the questions for Cecil.
I was under the impression that one of the simplest points when deciding who goes in what species was whethter they could breed - all animals who can interbreed are one species. So all dogs, coyotes & wolves are on e species. Cats and rabbits can’t interbreed - different species.
But perhaps that was merely a simplified way of describing clasification, and not hte basis for classifications?
mer: close- species are those which do not normally interbreed in the wild. Thus, some species could interbreed under unusual circumstances.
RM: << I received an email from you timestamped Sat, 20 May 2000 16:58:17 EDT from the TheStrDope@aol.com address, asking about my question “Are there cabbits?” You said you were screening the questions for Cecil.>>
Oh. Sorry. I didn’t associate. When Cecil’s mail gets overwhelming, I have helped screen from time to time… Like, weeding out the questions Cecil has already asked, weeding out the solicitations (“You too can earn $10,000 a week in your spare time!”), the obviously frivilous or unanswerable questions, etc. Recognizing your name, RM, I did pass the question on to Cecil… but I dunno the status of it since them. And I didn’t remember about that, sorry, must be senility setting in. I’ll see if I can find out what happened with it.
Some questions that do get through screening, Cecil decides he’s not interested in. Some get put in a pile where Cecil knows the answer, of course, but staff needs to do some back-up research to be able to PROVE the answer and cite sources. So, the process can be a long one.
Personally, I think the question is frivolous enough not to deserve Cecil’s attention. And I’d hate for the breeders of those poor deformed cats to get any more publicity.
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