A Michael Broad Blog
I’ve spotted a peculiar anomaly in the story about HCM in Bengal cats. In case you didn’t realise it, Bengal cats are said to be predisposed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Maine Coon cats have the same problem by the way as do some other cat breeds e.g., Ragdoll and British Shorthairs. I will take …
While doing some research on pet health insurance I noted that one insurer increases their insurance premiums because Bengal cats are predisposed to developing an inherited disease (in my opinion) called “Flat-chested Kitten syndrome (FCK)”. It’s a disappointment to me to read about this because you have to add this disease to the others …
This article looks at how Bengal cat owners perceive the behaviour and health of their cats. A study looked at the relationship between 256 Bengal cats and their owners. They lived in Flanders, Wallonia (Belgium), and the Netherlands. This is a European outlook on the Bengal cat. These are the findings (I have added …
I have some information provided by Tesco Bank Pet Health Insurance concerning the Bengal cat and it makes interesting reading in comparison to pet health insurance claims for the Maine Coon cat. They are quite different. Whereas the claims for the Maine Coon relate to diseases of internal organs, the claims for the Bengal …
Although I have a page on Genetic Diseases in Purebred Cats (gathered together from reliable and what I thought was complete source material), I have recently discovered that the much loved Bengal Cat can inherit Distal Neuropathy. In fact the Fabcats.org website says that about 9% of Bengal cats are affected, a large percentage. …
People ask quite a lot of questions about the domestic cat’s nose by which they mean the nose leather or the tip of the nose. Another similar question is whether a cat’s nose should be wet or dry. These questions apply to healthy cats as clearly a cat with an upper respiratory infection will …
Svetlana lives (or lived) with an F4 Bengal cat in Canada. She commented on the Bengal Nose page. She says this about the effect the mandatory vaccines had on her cat: As far as the vaccines goes. Before I neutered mine I had to get the mandatory vaccines in Canada prior to the surgery. …
Elvis was doomed to die young! The Bengal cat is not doomed to die young. However, some Bengal cats carry a genetically inherited trait that gives them a predisposition to a heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Research on one of Elvis Presley’s hair strands that was saved by his barber and which was …
