Hi All

I'm an avid cat lover but I've not had a cat for a good 6 yrs.

I've grown up with cats, mainly moggies but adopted a Turkish Van in my 20's when I lived out in cyprus.

I am not a single mummy with 2 boys and I work from home. I've spent over a year searching for the perfect type of cat to give a forever home to. I didn't want a kitten as I'm already running around after young kids so I thought I would hold out until I could find a kitty that was a few years old, which led me to cat rescues etc.

Since a friend homed 2 bengals a few years back, I've been interested in them. They're beautiful loving, intelligent and damn right cute So I looked around and then found a local breeder who was wanting to re-home a 6yr old ex-breeding queen. Just seeing a photo of her, I knew she was the one. I went to visit the breeder this weekend gone and that was it, my heart stopped and I found the new addition to our little family home.

She is a brown rosetta (that spelt right?) and simply stunning. She's been neutered, so I am looking to give her a new lease of life.

I've gone out and bought all the little nick-nacks, food/water bowl, litter tray, a few treats and a treat ball thingy, harness etc. I plan on taking her for walks around the neighbor hood, with the plan that it will get her use to the area, familiar with the streets to an extent. I'm hoping it will bring the risk down of her getting lost, might not be worth it but I feel safer in knowing that's she's been 'out' before she gets to go out, if that makes sense? I also have a large outside aviary enclosure that a neighbor kindly gave me yesterday, that I can hook up to the back end of my house, letting her come in and out as she pleases via the kitchen window.

Jeez, look at me, writing an essay! I suppose you can tell I'm excited

Anyway, looking forward to getting to know you all!

Please excuse my typos

Welcome to the forum. Thanks for rehoming a Bengal.

Pictures are required

"I am not a single mummy with 2 boys and I work from home." ? Do you mean "now" instead of "not" I confuzd

"been 'out' before she gets to go out" Do you plain on letting her out without a harness? I advice agents letting your cat roam free. Just keep using the harness you and your kid could walk her.

All the "little nick-nacks" I didn't see you mention DaBird its a required Bengal toy.

Yeah my typos lol

I would walk her on a harness every day for a good month before letting her out. She comes with some toys, so was going to wait til she finally comes home before I bought more things.

I'm a single mum, just to clarify that part, just call me the typo queen

I couldn't get a good picture of her, so here is the picture that her current owner placed on the ad;



This is her (honey) with her daughter playing at the breeder's

There's many sad stories on here of people who let their cats out. Its sad because there are many supervised alternatives activities you can do with your cat. My biggest issue is letting any pet free the impact on local wildlife and respect to your neighbors. Its actually illegal were I live. I beg you to considered an alternative.
I'm not going to harp on it anymore you got yourself a beautiful cat I don't want to see anything bad happen, please read this viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15868&hilit=why

I know exactly what you mean, had cats all my life.

My area has a lot of cats in, as it is. pretty much an animal friendly area and a big nature reserve out the back of me.

This is why I am wanting to use the bird aviary I was given, it's 4.5mtrs high by 7mtrs x 3mtrs. I've got a few potted plants that I will place in there with branches she can climb on etc.

She's a beautiful kitty! Welcome to the forums.

I don't think you'll regret getting a bengal. They're so much fun! (Even when they're being mischevious!)

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Katrina

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