[Seany (OP)]

Would anything happen?

[Seany (OP)]

Sorry for the sick thought []

[DoctorBeaver]

"Put the dog down and step away!"

[another_someone]

Would anything happen?

I think that under the current law you would probably get arrested.

If you mean would the dog get pregnant - despite all the folk lore regarding hybrid half man half beats animals, there has been no documented case of such actually happening, and it would run counter to everything we know about genetics and chromosomes (dogs have a very different number of chromosomes to humans, and so it would be difficult to see how the human sperm could fix its chromosomes to the chromosomes in the dogs ova).

[Seany (OP)]

But there is a possibility that it may get pregnant?

[DoctorBeaver]

But there is a possibility that it may get pregnant?

Unequivocally no.

[Seany (OP)]

Oh.. So if it's not possible.. Then why against the law?

Animal abuse?

[eric l]

... or the danger that you might get bitten ?

[Seany (OP)]

LOL.. []

[paul.fr]

As a general rule, you wake up still drunk and your friends have a good laugh...

[Seany (OP)]

*Smacks forehead* []

[another_someone]

Oh.. So if it's not possible.. Then why against the law?

Animal abuse?

Until very recently, I believe sodomy was illegal, but that too has nothing to do with the risk of pregnancy - merely politicians deciding what public moral tastes should be.

Certainly, there is an argument that might be put forward as to whether a dog might be considered competent to give consent for sexual activity with a human (there is no reason that one might assume the mental competence of a dog to in any way be superior to that of a 12 year old girl).

[DoctorBeaver]

...(there is no reason that one might assume the mental competence of a dog to in any way be superior to that of a 12 year old girl).

You haven't met my Jack Russell!  []

[another_someone]

...(there is no reason that one might assume the mental competence of a dog to in any way be superior to that of a 12 year old girl).

You haven't met my Jack Russell!  []

Tell that to the judge.

[DoctorBeaver]

...(there is no reason that one might assume the mental competence of a dog to in any way be superior to that of a 12 year old girl).

You haven't met my Jack Russell!  []

Tell that to the judge.

I did

[Seany (OP)]

LOL!!

[Soul Surfer]

The definition of a species is that animals can interbreed (although this may not be possible between extremes in the dog population which are all the same species)  a different species of animal cannot usually interbreed but there are exceptions.

Horses and donkeys can interbreed and produce mules and hinnies (according to which sex is the horse)  These animals are usually infertile and cannot themselves breed.

There were two subspecies of humans the Neanderthals and us and it has been suggested that we did not exterminate or displace them rather we interbred with them and they lost their identity. 

As to whether humans could interbreed with their closest relatives the great apes this topic is not considered to be socially acceptable to reasonable people although stories do exist of things like this happening

[kdlynn]

would it be possible for humans and apes to produce a child though? i'm not saying it would be right... but could it be done?

[DoctorBeaver]

I don't believe so. Although, of course, humans are actually apes themselves; so, technically, the answer is yes.

[kdlynn]

ok now i'm confused.. a lot of that going on today. if we ARE apes then why are we not able to mate with them?