Is My Cat A Marble Bengal

The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.

Is my cat a marble bengal. This is often called a marbled pattern variation. All the other breeds we mentioned have a symmetrical pattern on both of their sides but bengals don t and this is unique to the bengal breed. Bengal cat rescue and bengal breeders are frequently asked by individuals to help them positively identify the breed of cat of a cat with an unknown heritage. Additionally shelters too to determine if the cat just received is a bengal will often contact rescuers and sometimes breeders for breed identification assistance.

This breed has darker swirls all over its body which can stretch from the head all the way down to the cat s tail. This makes it quite easy if you re wondering whether or not your marbled fur baby is a bengal. Foothill felines cosmo at 5 months photo by owner sharon rogers. Bengal cats also have a striped black tipped tail.

In 1987 jean mill millwood cattery produced the first marbled bengal kitten in a cat named millwood painted desert. A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat. Since there are no naturally occurring marbled asian leopard cats the marble gene had to have come from some or one of the domestic cats originally used in the early days of envisioning and creating the bengal breed. Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too.

As you can see he has contrasting pattern on his legs tummy around his neck and his mouth and chin is white. Adore cats forest back the photo below is of one of our adult marble patterned bengal cats fyi he is forrest s father. Sometimes the spots link together to resemble more of a striped patterns but these are still considered bengal cats. In the same way that spotted bengal cats have asymmetrical markings marbled bengal cats do too.

Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons. But even if your cat shows all of the above there are other domestic breeds that exhibit these traits too. Marble bengal cats this is the third type of bengal cat coat which is often undesirable.