Marble is rarer than spotted and therefore can be considered more desirable.
Bengal cat spotted or marbled coat.
We have compiled photos of several different wild cats that help show the patterns and wild look that bengal breeders are working towards in the above photo album.
All bengals will without exception have a spotted coat.
Bengals have a wild appearance.
The marble the background and the centre.
Odds are if you ve seen a bengal cat or are learning about what a bengal cat even is you ve seen this cat in spotted form.
The snow bengal cat is a man made breed of the bengal cat that was created back in the 1980s and 1990s by two breeders who wanted to expand their gene pool.
The bengal cat is a domesticated cat breed created from hybrids of domestic cats especially the spotted egyptian mau with the asian leopard cat prionailurus bengalensis the breed name comes from the leopard cat s taxonomic name.
Provided in this article is a complete guide on snow bengal cats.
A spotted coat bengal cat is the most popular style of coat.
The bengal breed s most distinctive physical feature is their beautiful spotted coat though sometimes their coats will be marbled.
An accumulative gene is a very precious asset to the breeder since if you breed two kitties which are well glittered then the offspring will have.
Their golden shimmer comes from their leopard cat ancestry and their coats may show spots rosettes arrowhead markings or.
It was due to the overwhelming popular demand of cat show judges and audiences clamoring to see this amazing marble kitten in madison square garden and all over the country that jean mill began campaigning to add the marbled pattern to the bengal breed standard.
Originally her intent had only been to produce a domestic spotted bengal cat.
The blue and the silver both come in spotted or marbled patterns.
Marbled kittens start with blackish grey coats with small streaks of lighter colored fur scattered about their coat.
This is a very common marbling pattern.
By breeding bengal cats with siamese cats they produced bengals with a white fur coat and blue eyes.
The brown spotted tabby was recognized for championship status tica in 1991.
Check for a spotted coat.
Large random two tone rosetted markings are particularly prized.
The spotted bengal has characteristic small to medium sized spots all over their coats.
Odds are if you ve seen a bengal cat or are learning about what a bengal cat even is you ve seen this cat in spotted form.
There are several different types of marble patterning on bengal coats.
Much like the snow or marble bengal gene glitter was at first concluded to be a recessive gene.
Tri coloured marbling is where three colours are present in the pattern.
A spotted coat bengal cat is the most popular style of coat.
More recent evidence seems to point to the possibility that glitter is actually an accumulative gene.