Bengal Kittens for Sale

The Bengal is a unique and captivating breed, 

The Bengal is one of the few breeds selectively bred to emulate traits of wild felids.

Point Score, total point allocation

Originally written as a standard that would split the points equally between type and coat elements, CFA’s standard does place more emphasis on the coat than any other association.

Rosettes or spots running together vertically forming a mackerel tabby pattern. 

Bengals are a long and energetic breed; 

The Bengal breed has managed to evolve from single spots to amazing rosetted patterns reminiscent of giraffes and leopards in a relatively short amount of time.

The goal of the Bengal breeding program is to create adomestic cat which has physical features distinctive to the small forestdwelling wildcats, and with the loving, dependable temperament of the
domestic cat.

While you can train a Bengal to have "good manners", they are an active, inquisitive cat that loves to be up high.

This was the first effort to use hybrid offspring to create a breed of domestic cat with the loving nature of a favored fireside tabby and the striking look associated with Leopards, Ocelots and Jaguars.

Loved by those who appreciate its inquisitive and loving nature, the Bengal is a medium to large cat renowned for its richly colored, highly contrasted coat of vivid spots or distinctive marbling.

The first Asian Leopard Cat documented by Western Europeans (Kerr, 1792) was captured swimming in the Bay of Bengal (hence the latin name). That cat was taken back to camp and was bred to Kerr's domestic cat resulting in the first documented hybrids.

Specifying and Sustaining Pigmentation Patterns in Domestic and Wild Cats.

The dark cat is phenotypically similar in coloration to a charcoal bengal

These two cats are littermates produced from a melanistic Jaguar father and lion mother

Recent genetic analysis has discovered several cat species have evolved unique ASIP, Agouti Signaling Protein

Domestic Cats of many breeds were used as outcrosses throughout the breed's history for temperament and special attributes.

Use the terms second generation domestic backcross and third generation domestic backcross

Small wild cat species, from 5-15lbs living in Asia from the Amur region south to Indonesia, from Philippines west
to Pakistan

Bengals revolutionized TICA by being the first breed 

Spots on body running together vertically forming a mackerel tabby pattern on spotted cats

Smaller size, in balanced proportion of females

Rosettes showing two distinct colors or shades

All variations of brown are allowed.

Bengal Breed Seminar: Body

Medium to small, relatively short, with wide base and rounded tops.

The goal of the Bengal breeding program is to create a domeestic cat

The Bengal Cat Breed Committee was conflicted?

Presented by the TICA Bengal Breed Committee (2015-2018) for the illustration and understanding of the Bengal Cats Standard, Bengal History.