Enhancing the bengal s wild appearance is a short thick pelt that feels luxuriously soft and silky.
Bengal marbling belly.
A bengal cat s fur is very soft and short.
The contrast must be extreme.
The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.
It starts with the asian leopard cat.
Some bengal cats have chin straps and necklaces too.
The spots and marbling is randomly distributed with no set patterns.
In the early 1960s a breeder cross bred a black domestic shorthair cat with a wild female asian leopard cat.
Bengals have a spotted belly some even have rosette bellies.
Their eyes look like they have eye liner around them.
It comes in several colors and patterns including brown tabby seal mink tabby black silver tabby and seal silver lynx point.
What is a bengal cat.
But bengals have no white on their body other than possibly in their chin or whisker pad area or on their belly.
Bengals and domestic tabbies both have spotted bellies.
The leopard cat is a small wild cat found throughout the forests and jungle areas of asia hence the name asian leopard cat or alc there are many subspecies of the leopard cat.
The marbled pattern consists of contrasting horizontal swirls along the side of the cat.
That means the pattern on each side of the cat is very different.
Some brown bengal kittens are shades of gray when they are born.
The resulting f1 generation 50 percent asian leopard cat and 50.
The bengal marbling is a unique patterning of horizontally aligned swirls that are not found in the other breeds who tend to have bull s eye patterning.
The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.
It is a recessive gene and is highly desirable in the bengal.
The goal of each subsequent breeding is to perpetuate desirable traits as much as possible such as a horizontally aligned pattern whether spotted or marbled smaller ears thicker tails with black tips solid bone structure egg shaped heads black paw pads.
As we all know the very first bengal originated from a cross between the asian leopard cat alc with the domestic shorthair tabby.
They warm up starting around 6 weeks and can continue to warm up for months.
Bengal cats carry the glitter gene believed to have been introduced by millwood tory of delhi the kitten jean mill imported from india.
When a bengal rolls over you can see that another characteristic is a spotted belly.
