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NickB79

(20,104 posts) Sun Sep 14, 2025, 02:37 PM Sunday

Domestic Cats Keep Making Hybrids. That's A Problem, And Yes - That Includes Some Pets

https://www.iflscience.com/domestic-cats-keeping-making-hybrids-thats-a-problem-and-yes-that-includes-some-pets-80764

Why is this a problem? Wildcats in Scotland are under threat from “hybrid swarms” as domestic cats started interbreeding with them 60 years ago. This kind of genetic swamping is a relatively new problem, as a 2023 study revealed that domestic cats have been living alongside each other for 2,000 years, but they only started getting it on in the last half-century or so.

A combination of persecution and habitat loss has pushed European wildcats to the brink in the UK. They were scampering around England and Wales until the late 19th century, but now you’ll only find them in the Scottish Highlands and even there, the population is fragmented.

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Domestic Cats Keep Making Hybrids. That's A Problem, And Yes - That Includes Some Pets (Original Post) NickB79 Sunday OP

Many Native American tribes have thinned their numbers (or disappearing) by intermarrying with Europeans. Norrrm Sunday #1

benefit of the doubt, but. Ummm? You do realize .... stopdiggin Sunday #2

Valid point..... Remember Trump calling immigrants 'animals'? Norrrm Sunday #3

Indeed. But, we here at DU do not subscribe .... - -(nt)- stopdiggin Sunday #4

Yep! That's the point. Trumps and his MAGAts do subscribe to the 'animals' comments. Norrrm Sunday #6

What, and I mean this in the nicest way, NickB79 Sunday #5

Norrrm

(2,965 posts)

1. Many Native American tribes have thinned their numbers (or disappearing) by intermarrying with Europeans.

Reply to NickB79 (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:03 PM

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White supremacists worry about it with mingling of the races.

Some blacks and Jews feel the same way of their cultures not being fully preserved.

France has that worry about 'foreign' words corrupting their language.

At times, royalty has interbred to the point of damage to the progeny.
See the Hapsburg Jaw.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=habsburg+jaw&form=ANNTH1&refig=68c70c0726da4097bdb586aff77f3fe7&pc=U531&pq=hapsburg+jaw&pqlth=12&assgl=12&sgcn=habsburg+jaw&qs=OS&sgtpv=OS&smvpcn=0&swbcn=4&sctcn=0&sc=4-12&sp=1&ghc=0&cvid=68c70c0726da4097bdb586aff77f3fe7&clckatsg=1&hsmssg=0

stopdiggin

(14,397 posts)

2. benefit of the doubt, but. Ummm? You do realize ....

Reply to Norrrm (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:20 PM

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That the OP was speaking of inter-species breeding? (with the possible disappearance of one?)

Whereas your own post .... ?
(you have to be a little careful ... )