u/Snake_of_the_South

The way I thought of is that anthros of the same taxonomic order can have children. The offspring would be the same species as the mother but could inherit some traits of the father. So a snake and a lizard could have children but a dog and a horse could not. For example, one of my characters is a horned rattlesnake. Her father is a western diamondback and her mother is also a horned rattlesnake. Her scale patterns and coloration are mostly that of a horned rattlesnake but does have some faint coloration of a western diamondback.