Cat Puppies?

Okay, first things first. This is hoax city (read the story). Somebody somewhere is playing a joke on someone. Either the lady holding the, (uh, kippies, puppens, kuppies, pittens?) whatever is seeking publicity, or her husband thought he'd play a joke on her and now that it's been publicized, is finding it a little hard to come clean.

Now just for fun, if it were true, this would be cool. How would a dog cat mix behave? What if it had the best traits of both animals? A dog that would use a litter box, a cat that would want to obey you? Or maybe it would be bad to have a dog that used a litter box. What if it had the worst traits? Basically a dog that acted like a cat?

One thing I hate about stories like this is that you almost never see a follow up report. Someone's is running genetic tests, but we'll never see the results.