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It sounds like they are starting to bond, so I wouldn’t separate them. Breaking a rabbits bond can be fatal.
Gender is irrelevant when it comes to rabbits mounting each other as a show of dominance. It is best to discourage rabbits from mounting backwards as this can cause injuries to their necks.
In any case, you should discourage mounting, but short encounters (a few seconds) shouldn’t worry you. You don’t want to completely forbid them from communicating and resolving their relationship problems because they need to.
It’s possible that the cat picked up mounting behavior from the rabbit; the rabbit most likely mounted the cat first. Male rabbits are typically a little more obedient than female rabbits. If it didn’t bother the rabbit, he would like to be friends with the cat and accept that the cat is in charge. Relationships are complex, this is an oversimplification.
The rabbit will fight back if it disagrees with the behavior or the message of dominance. The most aggressive rabbit move is hip nipping. It is time for both of them to go to their own rooms for a time out if you witness the rabbit spin around and attempt to nip the cat’s hip.
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Another correspondent reported seeing a real-life “cabbit”—a hopping cat with a cat’s front and a rabbit’s back—belonging to her neighbor. Since “the genes that make a rabbit a rabbit or a cat a cat have only one copy and there are several proteins in the body that may require an interaction between the two copies of genes from the same species,” her brother in medical school came to the conclusion from a biology text book that it was genetically possible to have a first generation cabbit, but that it would not breed and would likely suffer from severe deformities and health problems. “.
Chinese researchers tried to clone panda embryos in rabbits in 2002 (newborn panda cubs are roughly the size of rabbit kits). Despite introducing panda DNA into 2300 rabbit ova, none of the embryos produced viable offspring. They then tried using cats as surrogates. Ten panda-rabbit and ten cat-rabbit embryos were implanted into 21 cats in order to test the viability of rabbit ova implanting in a cat’s uterus (cat DNA in an ovum). None lasted longer than 48 days; in contrast, a typical cat gestation lasts roughly 65 days (Biology of Reproduction, vol. 67, p. 637) Since the nucleus of these non-viable cat-rabbit embryos only contained cat DNA and would have produced cats with rabbit maternal mitochondria, they were not “cabbit” hybrids. The experiment shows that non-rabbit DNA ova do not develop in a rabbit’s womb and that rabbit ova cannot develop in a cat’s womb. As a result, even if cat-rabbit hybrid embryos were created in a test tube and inserted into a cat or a rabbit, the pregnancy would not succeed.
I got the following in response to the first iteration of this cabbit article, despite the overwhelming evidence refuting the cabbit myth. The writer’s defense of cabbits is riddled with errors, and most veterinarians and cat breeders who have seen it believe it to be a hoax.
I have to say that after reading your article on your website, you are a bunch of liars. I have owned and bred cabits, and they are a common breed in Ontario. As you mention in your piece regarding certain veterinarians, nobody has become well-known. It’s not very difficult, and nobody will win a Nobel Prize for it. They are an accepted species in Ontario. I can tell you everything you want to know about them and I have pictures to prove it. They resemble cats in appearance but have the appearance of a rabbit’s hind legs. They are silent, do not meow, and walk or hop in a similar manner. Some species may cross-breed; it’s just not a very common occurrence. You really should research before you go spouting off. In any case, what the devil are your credentials? Both my parents and I have been CKC registered breeders. Additionally, I can tell you that only two animals—the rabbit and the cat—are engaged in mating when babies are born, eight weeks after the animals first mate. They are not manx, and before you criticize those of us who genuinely know what we are talking about, you really ought to hang a few certificates on your wall.
“Regarding the VERY ignorant assessment “Cabbits – What Are They?” In 1991,my own cat showed ALL the symptoms of pregnancy. She would eat only tomatoes, green beans and lettuce. Weeks passed, her belly getting bigger, and she started looking for quiet places in the dark. She showed every indication of pregnancy, but we were unable to determine why. She didn’t engage in any sexual activity and was exclusively an indoor cat, save from our male bunny. But she and Bruno were regular sex partners! At first, we found it “cute” and “funny.” Who would have thought that a cat and a rabbit would fight for it? When I asked my biology professor in college how likely it was that something like that would happen, he said that since their chromosomes are linked, even in the unlikely event that they are not in a predator-prey situation and have been domesticated together and have no other available sexual partners of the appropriate species, propagation is possible. She had a baby. It was breech. We made an effort to assist her in giving birth, but unlike a “kitten,” what she had required actual pulling out. It suffocated, and the veterinarian determined that a caesarian section would be necessary if there were any more pregnancies. For the record, the infant resembled its father in that it had folded lop ears, a bunny nose, rabbit-like back legs, and a very short tail that curled up to its back—about half an inch. So why dont you explain that know-it-all? I saw it. And better than that, plenty of others did as well. “.