Marbled Tabby Bengal

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 tabby bengal.

And quite a few marbled breeds like the marbled manx cats the marbled british shorthairs. My motto about a bengal cat is be prepared and read up on this breed. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too.

The marbled pattern occurs nowhere else in nature while called a brown marbled look for the tricolor marbled kitten. Marbled bengal cats are quite often somewhat symmetrical. A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat. 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.

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. The marbled tabby is a long horizonal type of marking. Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons. Tabby cats and bengal cats can often look very similar.

To identify a bengal cat look for a spotted coat since all bengal cats have one. 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. Without a bill of sale. The kitten on the left is a spotted and the other one on the right is a blue marble.

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. 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. 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.

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 marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns.