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When can I buy a tiger the size of a cat with the character of a dog?

In the USA alone it is estimated at least 10.000 of these animals live in captivity so there must be a market for a more civilized version. Are we on the path to engineer pets to our own wishes or is this pure sci-fi?

How much investment/breakthroughs are needed to get there?



A tiger? You can't, well unless you commit to a few generations of trying to domesticate them.

Or you could get the next best thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Coon

I call em catdogs cause they're probably the closest thing to a dog in cat form.


AFAIK it hasn't been done with mammals yet, but transgenic pets are here now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish

Most PetSmart and Petco stores in the US stock these animals. If you live in the United States, you can almost certainly take one home today.


The personality most dogs have may be attributable to Williams Syndrome[1]. So you just need to engineer some tigers to have the same syndrome!

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700398


Toygers are real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyger


It's still a cat.




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