Is My Cat A Marble Bengal

The marble bengal cats make for great pets but aren t much appreciated in pet shows.

Is my cat a marble bengal.

Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons. 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 makes it quite easy if you re wondering whether or not your marbled fur baby is a bengal. Adore cats forest back the photo below is of one of our adult marble patterned bengal cats fyi he is forrest s father.

Bengal cats also have a striped black tipped tail. This is often called a marbled pattern variation. Foothill felines cosmo at 5 months photo by owner sharon rogers. But even if your cat shows all of the above there are other domestic breeds that exhibit these traits too.

The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. This breed has darker swirls all over its body which can stretch from the head all the way down to the cat s tail. 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. In the same way that spotted bengal cats have asymmetrical markings marbled bengal cats do too.

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. A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat. His name is adore cats lightening. Sometimes the spots link together to resemble more of a striped patterns but these are still considered bengal cats.

Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too. Marble bengal cats this is the third type of bengal cat coat which is often undesirable. A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat.