Foothill felines likita of fire n ice bengals foreground.
Bengal marble vs spotted.
Sparbling isn t really an official pattern category but in breeder lingo it is used to describe bengals who possess both rosettes and marble markings or spotted bengals with marble ish patterns.
The coat color of bengal cats.
Sparbled bengals have a mixture of spots from spotted bengal cats and swirls from marble bengal cat the swirls are often found on the legs or tail of the cat.
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.
In the early 1960s a breeder cross bred a black domestic shorthair cat with a wild female asian leopard cat.
Photo by owner wanda mcdonald here is a little more background information and detail about the marble pattern in the bengal cat which is genetically referred to as a tabby.
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.
Enter the sparble pattern where spots and marble collide.
Some brown bengal kittens are shades of gray when they are born.
Bengals have a wild appearance.
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 marble bengals must have spotted bellies.
Their golden shimmer comes from their leopard cat ancestry and their coats may show spots rosettes arrowhead markings or.
Showing unique spotting within her marbling pattern.
The resulting f1 generation 50 percent asian leopard cat and 50.
More recent evidence seems to point to the possibility that glitter is actually an accumulative gene.
What is a bengal cat.
Bengal kittens change a lot over their kitten hood and can improve in appearance up till a year old.
Much like the snow or marble bengal gene glitter was at first concluded to be a recessive gene.
While there are only two patterns under which bengals cats are shown spotted or marble there are descriptive terms used to define the types of pattern seen.
Whenever people think of a bengal cat they imagine a brown cat with dark brown spots.
In the picture below we see various types of rosettes but they all have the similarity of having a dark outline and a brown tone in the inside.
Bengal leopard spotted the leopard spotted nowadays has stricking rosettes known as donut rosettes with high contrast placed on a light cream base coat with rich chestnut tones.
