The contrast must be extreme.
Bengal marbling belly.
But bengals have no white on their body other than possibly in their chin or whisker pad area or on their belly.
It starts with the asian leopard cat.
Enhancing the bengal s wild appearance is a short thick pelt that feels luxuriously soft and silky.
Bengals and domestic tabbies both have spotted bellies.
The bengal breed has an interesting history.
Their eyes look like they have eye liner around them.
Some bengal cats have chin straps and necklaces too.
The spots and marbling is randomly distributed with no set patterns.
Bengals have a spotted belly some even have rosette bellies.
The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.
The bengal marbling is a unique patterning of horizontally aligned swirls that are not found in the other breeds who tend to have bull s eye patterning.
Some brown bengal kittens are shades of gray when they are born.
It comes in several colors and patterns including brown tabby seal mink tabby black silver tabby and seal silver lynx point.
The leopard cat is a small wild cat found throughout the forests and jungle areas of asia hence the name asian leopard cat or alc there are many subspecies of the leopard cat.
Bengal cats carry the glitter gene believed to have been introduced by millwood tory of delhi the kitten jean mill imported from india.
The marbled pattern consists of contrasting horizontal swirls along the side of the cat.
That means the pattern on each side of the cat is very different.
It is a recessive gene and is highly desirable in the bengal.
What is a bengal cat.
The goal of each subsequent breeding is to perpetuate desirable traits as much as possible such as a horizontally aligned pattern whether spotted or marbled smaller ears thicker tails with black tips solid bone structure egg shaped heads black paw pads.
As we all know the very first bengal originated from a cross between the asian leopard cat alc with the domestic shorthair tabby.
A bengal cat s fur is very soft and short.
The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl.
The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.
In the early 1960s a breeder cross bred a black domestic shorthair cat with a wild female asian leopard cat.
When a bengal rolls over you can see that another characteristic is a spotted belly.
