Cat and dog lovers, would you agree a dog-cat hybrid could be the best pet ever?

A dog that uses kitty litter box. Cat that actualy gives a crap about me instead of considering me as replacable staff.

No, I would not agree.

I’m having a hard time thinking of any dog features I want in my cat… except maybe large size and trainability.

Well . . . actually . . .

I guess I would want a big cat (panther, lion, tiger, jaguar, etc) that was trained as well as an obedient protective guard dog.

And I would want a dog that didn’t smell like a dog, didn’t annoyingly bark at things, would bury its poop discretely outside, was self-sufficient and not needy and had a more cat-like demeanor.

Actually, I have known a dog or two that behaved largely like a cat.

A dog that sprays all over the house? No, How about a cat that craps on the floor? A dog that coughs up furballs? Maybe a dog that doesn’t give a crap? No…I like cats to be cats and dogs to be dogs.

Nope. I really like specific features of both species (sorry for the redundancy) so I would prefer to have both.

It sounds to me like you are describing the poor misunderstood hyena. Their bodies and overall behavior are more like dogs, but they are genetically closer to cats and have an important subset of behaviors that are more feline (specifically, their grooming, marking, mating, parenting, and defecating behaviors). Unfortunately, hyenas cannot be domesticated. Apparently, that’s why they were never used in circuses.

Cats are purrfect the way they are.

You mean like a fox?

Let’s see…A pet that climbs all over the furniture, claws the crap out of it, coughs up hair balls, digs holes and shits all over the yard, barks/yowls all night, fights with the neighbor’s pet, and bites people…
Sounds like the perfect pet for the mother-in-law.

One could set aside a whole room in the house for a litter box.

Rick actually had to do that with his big cats. The entire laundry room was a litterbox the size of a sandbox.

@ragingloli The fox, although canid, certainly has feline traits, and can behave and move like either a cat or dog. Unfortunately, when domesticated, they become more like domesticated dogs and far less like cats

I have thought about this question many times before, and usually conclude that I like both dogs and cats, and there are dogs that behave like cats—- but I’d rather have both dogs and cats and condition them to get along, rather than have a hybrid.

The problem with having both is, the dog(s) demand(s) much more attention and gets jealous; the cat cannot bond with the human because of the dog. And the dod(s) often see cats as unwanted competition, to be done away with.

Foxes start changing colors when they’re domesticated, too.

It seems I remember that even their ears start to become doglike. A domesticated fox is usually just like another breed of dog. But if you google images of foxes that look like cats, they certainly are sleek and elegant in their catlike form when wild. Arctic foxes especially.