Marbled Tabby Bengal

Kinda like you stretched out the bullseye and made it long and broken now with the ocicat the spotting on the sides should resemble a bullseye but not a definate one.

Marbled tabby bengal.

Patterns should be symmetrical on both sides of the body and the pattern should swirl and flow around the body like the colors in a glass marble. The marbled pattern occurs nowhere else in nature while called a brown marbled look for the tricolor marbled kitten. I took a stray cat in last july 2013 i thought t was a tabby but in fact was a marbled bengal confirmed by two vets and a expert cattery owner. Tabby cats and bengal cats can often look very similar.

Above picture are two of my blue bengal s from sundari and mercedes both these blue females sire is sno bound he carry s the blue gene and he him self is the color of sepia sundari sire is ver sachi he carries the blue gene and her dam is mercedes also carries the blue gene. Marbled bengal cats are quite often somewhat symmetrical. My motto about a bengal cat is be prepared and read up on this breed. If it is a bengal people won t except it without papers.

Also take a look at the cat s physical build. Marbled british shorthair marbled oriental tabby marbled manx tabby on our bengal cat facts page we explain lots of different facts about us bengals which may help you if you want further information about the breed. Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too. And quite a few marbled breeds like the marbled manx cats the marbled british shorthairs.

The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. In this article we re going to be more specific about what makes bengals different to the other cats we ve mentioned. The marbled tabby is a long horizonal type of marking. A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat.

Without a bill of sale. Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons. To identify a bengal cat look for a spotted coat since all bengal cats have one. The majority of cats actually have what is referred to as ticked fur rather than fur which is all a solid color and in the majority of cases the ticked fur alternates with solid color fur in a pattern which is called tabbying.

The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors. You should also note the color of the coat which is typically brown or gold in bengal cats but sometimes also gray charcoal silver or blue.