A Michael Broad Blog
This article on how to buy a Bengal cat covers some of the things that I would do if I were buying a Bengal cat. This is a very popular cat breed and there are very many breeders particularly in the United States. And nearly all of them are going to be good. But …
The Bengal is still a very modern cat; full of bling and zing despite being created in the 1980s. There was a time when there was a surge in interest in wild cat hybrids resulting in the motivation to create fresh breeds. There are several wildcat hybrids in addition to the Bengal, the best …
The Wildheart Trust has launched a campaign to ban the breeding of wild cat hybrids. I’m referring to the cross-breeding of wild cats with domestic cats to create a hybrid which at the first generation is half wild cat and half domestic cat (first filial). At subsequent generations there is less wild cat blood …
This seems to be a fairly new development to extend the range of coat types for this popular wildcat hybrid. They are a monochromatic Bengal. There are 50 shades of grey, the breeders say. They appear to be quite rare and they come in a spectrum of slight variations from charcoal in silver, snow, …
I think that one very good reason why it is inadvisable to allow your wildcat hybrid such as the Bengal or Savannah cats outside unsupervised is because, at a distance, and if an observer is unsure, they look very much like a genuine wild cat. Perhaps the observer lets their imagination run wild and …
Jean Mill of the Millwood Cattery is the American breeder who created the Bengal cat. She had two goes at it; firstly, in the 1960s when against advice she created a female Asian leopard cat x black domestic cat hybrid female that she called ‘Kin Kin’. She bred this female back to her father. …
I like pictures of cats. The photograph shows a male Bengal cat with an all-gray female (with a very thin coat), who are the parents, with their ‘kids’, a mixed bag with one a carbon copy of his ‘dad’. We don’t know why the female’s coat is so thin. She appears to be suffering …
Sheffield, UK-news and views: Barbara Neal claims that her neighbour’s Bengal cat attacked her savagely without provocation (see my comment at base of page, she did provoke the cat without realising it). She says that her neighbour’s Bengal cat is allowed to wander freely and had been coming into her home. She says that …
