The creation of a kangaroo cat is incredibly interesting in my idea. Being a amateur geneticist it fascinates me. But please, get over the unnatural part of things. I know a wide variety of college students who are doing everything from engineering new types of carnivorous plants, to breeding bizarre new types of lizards. I even know of one polydactyl owner who's cat has a opposable thumb that can grip and it grips your knee when it sits on your lap.
College students are very curious and very inventive.
Theyre figuring out how to genetically engineer things in their kitchens by being very resourceful. The continuation of life as art is going to continue regardless of anything anyone tries to do to stop it. All sorts of weird science is going on, there are scientists who have switched the heads of two monkeys and they survived although quadripalegic. We will eventually be able to do the same in humans by transplanting the head of a person dying of multiple organ failure onto the body of a vegetable. Lots of weird and bizarre stuff is going to happen and people are just going to have to get used to it.