Fur pattern and colors are those classical in tabby cats as I learned during my studies (yes, that was part of my cursus ! genetics of cats and dogs colors... and it's not easy !)

Tabby cats :


(blotched, mackerel, spotted and ticked tabbies)

As for the behavior, other cats can share it it's not exclusive to Bengals ! My moggie likes water even better than my Bengal (who's still afraid for the moment )...

Hi Jakafe,

Don't worry about it, you have a nice cat of which you deservedly feel very proud . There is nowhere in the rules say that you have to have a Bengal in order to be a member of this list. Not everybody here has a Bengal, quite a few have crossbreeds that don't look like Bengals either, some don't have a cat at all.

A lot of the topics raised here, will apply to any cat, not only Bengals.

Just enjoy her as she is, a very lovely cat with a beautiful coat.

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Something I learned today also makes me think that this breeder would be interested in him as a Maine Coon is that the "book" is open, meaning any cat looking like a Maine Coon can be part of a breeding program as a "foundator", so maybe that was what your breeder was aiming at .

I guess the Bengal book is also open as we can still breed it with the ALC, F1, F2 or F3 (who are not "registered Bengals" as such) but I don't see what contribution this cat would make to the Bengal breed . Nowadays Bengals are no longer crossed with other breeds such as the Egyptian Mau or other spotted, short eared and such cats... as they have all the genetic material they need already.

I'm showing the photo to a Maine Coon lover who'll tell me if she thinks so .

I've had an answer : she thinks he looks like a perfect Siberian cat

I'm here with the same question.. Sorry! haha! I've read through and I bet there's some part of Bengal in Bella. I have 4 dogs and I know what all of them are, so the mystery I have found in Bella is why type of cat she is. I want to find out more about her so this is why I'm asking.

She's very playful, and OMG is she talkative. She's VERY, VERY affectionate and loves my dogs and I to death. She's my only cat (at this time) but I don't think she minds. Sometimes I think she's part dog by the way she plays with them. Here she is with my other two babies.







And here's a picture I took today..


Any help is greatly appreciated!

Aww kandice what a sweetheart you have there! The dogs are cuties too! We had a tabby that looked just like that. We named him Meowser cuz he talked so much. He grew up to be very large and was a complete sweetheart. My bengal, which is also part tabby, is relatively small and very svelte. My bengal had "fuglies" when he was a kitten that fell out to reveal fine glittery fur. Bengals tend to not be lap-cats so much, but mine is maybe cuz of the tabby in him. He's affectionate but not as affectionate as Meowser was. I am inclined to think yours may be a tabby.

Well thank you very much!! Well you have satisfied my curiousity.. BUT.. after looking at the pictures in the picture gallery.. I'm thinking, I want one. They are so stunning.

I agree with Toastie . Your cat looks just like Onyx, the moggie brown spotted tabby in my signature, who's not part Bengal at all (in France, not a lot of Bengals running wild so even if he WAS born some 60km from Chaos' breeder, as her stud is kept in an enclosure, that isn't a likely coincidence ; also, the person who gave it to me told me the father was likely to be a big white cat), but happens to be more Bengal like in caracter than Chaos (talkative, likes water, playful, affectionate when he likes to (eg in the morning at 6 o'clock ), jumps, etc...).

Bella is still very beautiful .

Last thing, if dogs are very easy to recognise as "part breed" as there are virtually no "moggie dogs" (meaning, a dog that has no traits selected by humans in order to fix a breed, dogs and breeds are a very old thing : sheepherd dogs, retriever dogs, hunting dogs and so on), the same does not apply for cats as cats' breed are more recent (beginning of the 20th century, end of the 19th for the more ancient) and people had cats without bothering to select some traits, and that's why moggies are so varied in colour, pattern and shape... (depending of the part of the world you find them, the climate selecting some, like big long haired cats in Scandinavia that are the ancestors of the Norvegian cat, sleek big eared cats in North Africa that were used for Orientals and so on).

For eg., wild cats in North Africa :



(sorry photo isn't very good but you can still notice the big ears)