That is very true! I just see on other bengal sites, forums, etc. people posting pictures of their bengal and it's obviously NOT a bengal! They believe it is probably because they were told it was. Perhaps someone paying a couple hundred dollars for a cat they are told is a bengal, is fine, but many people pay $1,000 and up for a purebred bengal and I personally would in no way part with that kind of money and not get papers with the cat. I registered Raiden when he was six years old -- his previous owner handed me the papers two years ago when I took him and they were blank except with the parents pedigreed names and TICA numbers. I guess it was just important to me to go ahead and register him. Yes, the pedigree ends with him since he's neutered, but it gave me the opportunity to research his pedigree all the way back to the ALCs (there are five different ones). I realize a lot of people don't care about that and that's fine. I was fascinated by the breed and took three months of my spare time to research hundreds of cats in his pedigree. We get the question "is my cat a bengal" constantly here. And what can you tell them? Maybe the pictures looks like a bengal. But how do WE know for sure? We don't! Someone will say, "bengal" and someone will say, "looks like a bengal mix". Someone else will say "looks like a regular tabby". Nobody knows for sure without knowing the parents of the kitty and we basically confuse the member who asked the question in the first place. If these kittens came with registration papers, there would be no need to ask the question in the first place.