The bengal cat is a hybrid breed formed by crossing the local cat with an asian leopard cat.
Marble bengal cats characteristics.
Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons.
Their fur is amazingly soft.
To identify a bengal cat look for a spotted coat since all bengal cats have one.
The desire of such cross breeding is to make a domestic cat looks like a wild feline but has the temperament of a local cat.
A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat.
Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched.
Bengal cats are so sought after that a british woman paid over 50 000 for her bengal cat in 1990 dubbing them the rolls royce of feline companions.
The beauty of wild cats has always been attractive to people so efforts were made to breed one of the wild cats to a domestic cat in order to have a wild appearing but gentle tempered domestic cat.
From this list here we have reviewed the common characteristics traits of the bengal cat personality.
The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.
To this end the first hybridization of the asian leopard cat and domestic tabby cats were undertaken in the early 1960s in the united states.
Plus they re cute and unlike larger exotic cats they probably can t cause any super serious injuries to humans.
Bengal cat personality is wonderful and has such a wild beauty that we could spend hours contemplating it.
Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too.
You should also note the color of the coat which is typically brown or gold in bengal cats but sometimes also gray charcoal silver or blue.
The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.
Bengal cats are hybrids of domestic cats and asian leopard cats.
Some bengals even have a layer of glitter.
They can be rosetted spotted marbled or different colors such as brown silver snow melanistic blue just to name a few.
The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl.