Sepetang d KKM CAT SHOW

Alhamdulillah, n wat pertama kalinya D Maya join show yg d buat oleh KKM (kelab kucing malaysia) d SEREMBAN n alhmdulillah jgk coz dr 4 ekor kcing yg D Maya bwak 2 drpdnya telah menang d pertandingan trsebur n trasa amat brtuah coz slah sekor ank2 bengal D Maya mndpt "most clourfull kitten"
n sekor lgi mndpt tmpt ke 2 dlm ketegori trsebut (kira adik beradik yg berentap) hehehehe....



                                       so ni ler pic2 msa pertandingan 2 brjln.

                                                      

ni plk adik kpda c tomy yg jga mrupakn pesaing kpd c tomy

            

Pic2 Kenangan Semasa Cat Show Di Putra Jaya 25-26 May Yg Lepas.

                                        

                                            pic2 Indera Petra smasa d judge.

                                            pic brsma "otai" n geng2 bengal

                                                       me at the SHOW

MATING SEASON part 2

ANTARA:

                                                     INDERA PETRA
                                                               X
                                                 BIDASARI MAS MERAH

HOPE smuanya brjalan lncar  

MATING SEASON

Kali ni smpai pulak msa utk D Maya Cattery mmproduce kitten d mna utk mndptkn kitten2 yg lgi hebat

n kli ni  D Maya Cattery cuba utk mngawinkn:

                                                     Andika jinnga
                                                              x
                                                    Miss Lady Snow

   

Alhamdulillah slepas proses mating brjln lncar n ni ler HASILNYA:

 

*kini Miss Lady Snow tngh sarat n hnya menunggu msa utk mlahirkn baby2nya (hope sngt, ank2 snow sehat n comel2 smuanya) amin.

so tnggu kmunculan pic2 kitten dr miss lady snow k.


 

ALHAMDULILLAH.... syukur kpda mu ya ALLAH.

Time utk produce kitten yg hebat utk D Maya Cattery

 

                                                       ANDIKA JINGGA                   
                                                                 X
                                                   BIDASARI MAS MERAH

Setelah bberapa lama mmiliki kucing BENGAL, kini KEGEMBIRAAN mula trgmbar d wajah ak n D Maya Cattery d mna kami telah pn mmiliki 3 ekor kitten yg comel2 hasil perkongsian hidup  ANDIKA JINGGA + BIDASARI MAS MERAH

ini ler pic2 kitten utk  D Maya Cattery:

                                     pic2 ni d snap pd umurnya x smpai sebulan



so lpas ni tnggu lgi pic2 3 beradik ni k. 



 

Cerita Tentang Bengal Ku

Dari Persian, aku mula bertukar arah kepada kucing BENGAL, gara-gara cuaca yg x menentu di tmpat tinggal baru ku (pnas yg brpnjangan & tramat pnas).
Aku mula bralih arah dan mula mmiliki kucing Bengal, kucing BENGAL yang ada dlm simpanan @ koleksi aku semuanya dr breeder besar nmanya iaitu dr Kittunkatz bengal.
ALHAMDULILLAH atas Kepercayaan yg d bgi oleh owner Kittunkatz (k.Reen), kini aku mmiliki 4 ekor (2 pasang) bengal yang cantik2 belaka.......
tntu kalian pn nk tngokkn pic2 kucing BENGAL ku, hehehehehehe.....

                                                      
                                        ni ler pair BENGAL yg mula2 aku miliki

                                      my HERO > Kittunkatz Andika Jingga.

                                   my HEROIN > Kittunkatz Bidasari Mas Merah



Lpas tu, ALHAMDULILLAH rezeki yg d bg oleh yg maha ESA mncurah2 & dpt ler aku mmiliki spasang lgi BENGAL dr Kittunkatz.
  
Ni ler pic2 BENGAL bru utk D Maya Cattery 

                                    My NEW HEROIN > Kittunkatz Miss Lady Snow

                                      NEW HERO> Kittunkatz Indera Petra


*HOPE SNGAT2 smuanya sehat & dpt  "produce" ank2 yg cntik.

Ciri-Ciri Yang Di Cari Oleh Hakim

Charting the Genes

A simple way to work out what kittens your cat might have, is to build a simple chart, and work out the combinations of genes.

I’ll continue to use the short and long hair genes, as they are the simplest example to start with.

Start by drawing a chart that is 3 boxes wide and 3 boxes deep. Ignore the top left hand box. Now fill in the the top row with the stud’s genes, and in the left hand column the queen’s genes.

In the example below, both the stud (at the top) and the queen (at the side) have one short hair gene and one long hair gene. The symbol for the short haired gene is ‘L’ and the symbol for the long haired gene is ‘l’.

Notice that the dominant and recessive genes use the same letter, but the dominant gene is in upper case (L) and the recessive gene is in lower case (l).

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)
	Long Hair (l)

Now take the symbol from the left hand male box (L), and combine it with the top one from the female (L).

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)	L L
	Long Hair (l)

Now add the symbol from the left band male box with the bottom one from the female.

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)	L L
	Long Hair (l)	L l

Now do the same for the right hand two boxes:

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)	L L	I L
	Long Hair (l)	L l

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)	L L	I L
	Long Hair (l)	L l	l l

You should end up with:

		Male
		Short Hair (L)	Long Hair (l)
Female	Short Hair (L)	L L	I L
	Long Hair (l)	L l	l l

Top left, you have L L - two short haired genes (L) - this kitten will be short haired (homozygous)

Top right, and bottom left - you have one L and one l - one short haired gene and one long haired gene - these two kittens are short haired but carry long hair (the short hair gene is dominant, so the long hair gene is ‘invisible’)

Bottom right is l l - two long haired genes - so this kitten is long haired.

So the average that you would get from this mating are half the kittens being short haired, but carrying long hair (heterozygous), 25% being Long Haired (homozygous) and 25% Short Haired (homozygous).

Remember though, that these are only averages. Some eggs may die before they are fertilised, some sperm may never get that far, and then fertilised eggs may not survive. And you never know which ones will actually go full term.

So don’t expect to always get one long haired kitten in every litter of four. You have to repeat several matings before the ‘averages’ start to show up.

You can use this chart to work out the coat type, pattern or colour of any of the genes below - though the chart gets rather big and complicated if you try to chart more than one gene at a time - as you have to allow for every combination that might occur.

To work out the combinations of one gene, there are four possible combinations (the male carries a pair, and the female carries a pair). But to work out the combinations of two genes together (e.g. marbled or spotted, and snow or brown), there are sixteen possible combinations. As you might guess, the boxes get a bit big and complicated, and it is easy to lose track if you try to do too many combinations at a time.

Just as an example, here is a box where both the male and the female are brown spotted, but where they both carry marble and snow. Marble is recessive to spotting, and snow is recessive to brown.

		Male
		Spotted & Snow	Marble & Snow	Spotted & Brown	Marble & Brown
Female	Spotted & Snow	2xspotted genes 2x snow genes = snow spotted	1 spot + 1 marble 2x snow genes = snow spotted	2xspotted genes 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted	1 spot + 1 marble 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted
	Marble & Snow	1 spot + 1 marble 2x snow genes = snow spotted	2x marble genes 2x snow genes = snow marble	1 spot + 1 marble 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted	2x marble genes 1 brown+1 snow = brown marble
	Spotted & Brown	2xspotted genes 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted	1 spot + 1 marble 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted	2xspotted genes 2x brown genes = brown spotted	1 spot + 1 marble 2x brown genes = brown spotted
	Marble & Brown	1 spot + 1 marble 1 brown+1 snow = brown spotted	2x marble genes 1 brown+1 snow = brown marble	1 spot + 1 marble 2x brown genes = brown spotted	2x marble genes 2x brown genes = brown marbled

So out of the mating of two brown spotteds who both carry marble and snow you would get (on average for 16 cats):

3 snow spotted, 2 of which carry marble
9 brown spotted - 2 carrying snow, 4 carrying snow and marble, 1 carrying marble and one homozygous
1 snow marble
3 brown marbles, 2 of which carry snow

Bengal Genes

These are the main genes that affect the Bengal, with an explanation of each of them. As said previously, research is still taking place and new genes are being discovered all the time, so if you know more, please let me know (contact details at the bottom of the page).

I have included some genes that do not relate directly to the Bengal, as they help clarify how other cats differ.

Dominant	Recessive	Notes
A Agouti	a non-agouti	Agouti is the tabby/patterned cat Non-agouti is the self coloured (solid colour) cat A is dominant to a, though not always completely - you can sometimes see the shadow of the tabby pattern on a solid coloured black cat that is heterozygous (i.e. on one that is Aa) a in combination with the Inhibitor gene (I) can cause smoke (see more at the bottom of this page)
B Black	b chocolate	b is the chocolate gene - all of the black is replaced by a rich chocolate brown B is incompletely dominant to b Bb can result in a black cat with rusty coloured shading b is incompletely dominant to b1
	b1 cinnamon	b1 is the cinnamon gene - where the black is replaced by a rich cinnamon brown A cat that is b1 b1 will be cinnamon, but where the cat is b b1, they are often a pale shade of chocolate, as b is not completely dominant to b1
C Full Colour	c albino	The albino cat with no colour and pink eyes (not relevant to the Bengal)
	ca blue-eyed white	The blue-eyed white cat (does not relate to the Bengal - this cat is white all over)
	cs siamese	Ivory background, coloured points and blue eyes -the blue-eyed snow (seal lynx point) Note that reddish blue eyes may be a sign that this cat also carries chocolate
	cb burmese	Ivory background, darker (sepia) coloured points, with brown, yellow or green eyes (seal sepia)
		If you have a Bengal that has one cs gene and one cb gene, then the two genes ‘mix’ - neither is dominant or recessive to one another. The result is the Seal Mink - with turquoise eyes. This combination of genes is referred to as the ‘Tonkinese’ colour
D Dense Colour	d dilute colour	Dense colour is fully dominant to dilute colour. A combination of BBDD gives a black cat, but BBdd is a blue cat A brown cat (bb) with dilute (dd) is a lilac A cinnamon cat (b1b1) with dilute (dd) is a fawn A sex linked Orange cat (OO) with dilute (dd) is a cream The combination of Agouti (A) and dilute (d) causes a cream base coat rather than the usual Agouti yellow base coat.
Dm Dilute Modifier	dm normal dilution (maltese dilution)	The Dm gene only takes affect where dd is also present. On blue, lilac and fawn cats with Dm = caramel Red cats with Dm = apricot
I Colour Inhibitor	i normal colour	The standard description of the Inhibitor gene is that it is a completely dominant gene which inhibits all colour in the coat - i.e. causes silver. However, it appears to be either incompletely dominant, or is affected by rufousness - as we have all seen the ‘tarnished’ silver who has some hint of brown in the coat. A combination of Agouti (AA) with the inhibitor (I) causes smoke in some cases. Some believe that both the Inhibitor gene and the Agouti gene come in varying ‘strengths’, and that an excess of Inhibitor with insufficient Agouti causes the smoke. However, it is possible that other, as yet unidentified genes are coming into play. See below for more details on silvers
L Short Hair	l long hair	The short haired gene is completely dominant to the long hair gene. The sources I have read say that ‘the length of hair is determined by selective breeding’ - however this comment in itself indicates that another gene (or genes) may be present which affect hair length - and the ‘selective breeding’ is selecting cats with this other ‘hair length modifier’ gene(s).
Mc Vertical flow	mc circular flow	The Mc gene gives a vertical stripe or pattern, but the mc gene causes a swirling/circular pattern
	mz horizontal flow	Currently a theory only - believed to cause the horizontal alignment of the pattern found only in Bengals and believed to be inherited directly from the ALC
Mi Not glittered	mi glittered	Another ‘theoretical’ gene - causing the glitter on the Bengal coat. The designation of Mi is only ‘temporary’ - I have also seen this gene referred to as Gi or Gl. The glitter is caused by the tip of each hair shaft being hollow, so that the light passes through the hair tip.
Rf Normal colour	rf rufous	Originally thought to be a series of polygenes (blending genes), the rufous gene is now thought to be a separate gene that causes red in the coat. There is still some work to be done here, as another theory believes that the rufous colouring is caused by the ‘extension’ gene. However, the amount of red in a Bengal coat varies considerably from cat to cat, and not in direct relationship to the width of the colour bands. My personal opinion is that this gene may come in varying ‘strengths’, or is affected by another gene that changes the amount of red in the coat.
S White spotting	s no white spotting	Incomplete dominance in that Ss will have some white spotting SS     = Harlequin or Van       >2/3rds white Ss     = Bicolour                    2/3rds white So what causes the locket? Is the locket caused by another variation on this gene, that hasn’t yet been identified? Or is it just an Ss with very little white.
Sa Normal hair	sa satin/silk fur	Another ‘theoretical’ gene - No or minimal undercoat, with a satin finish to the coat I has been suggested that this gene is another or different cause for glitter (see Mi), however I think most Bengal breeders will agree that this is unlikely as Bengals that have silky fur with no undercoat are not always glittered.
Sp Pattern Interrupt	sp normal tabby (Classic or Mackerel)	Now identified as a separate gene affecting the tabby pattern by breaking up the pattern to cause spots rather than lines. It is still not known what causes the variance in spot shapes and colours (i.e. rosetting)
E Extension Gene		Determines the width of the colour banding on a patterned (agouti) coat
O Sex linked orange	o not orange	I have only included this one because some of the early Bengals did carry sex-linked orange (notably Millwood Pennybank). The male is an xy, and the femal is an xx, and the o gene can only ‘attach’ to the x gene, so a male can only ever carry one o gene, but a female can carry a pair. xxoo     = female not red or cream xyo       = male not red or cream xxOo    = female tortie/tortoishell xxOO   = female red (or cream with dd) xyO      = male red

Birth Defects

Flat Chest	There are very mixed feelings as to whether this caused by a recessive gene or by environmental affects, or a mixture of both.
Kinked Tail	Possibly caused by a recessive gene There is a possibility that there is a link between tail faults and spina bifida.
Cleft Palate	Opinion varies as to whether this is caused by a gene, by immaturity at birth, or a congenital birth defect caused by some outside influence during pregnancy.

Smoke, Charcoal and Melanistic Bengals

I have read and heard so many things about the smoke, charcoal and melanistic bengals, and I think there is quite a bit of confusion over these colours.

What I would like to do here is clarify what we do know, and what we don't know, as at May 2013.

Smoke, melanism and charcoal are different colours. A melanistic cat is not a charcoal, or a smoke, any more than a blue lynx point is a seal lynx point.

Smoke

I think it is fairly clear in most people's minds that the Smoke bengal is a (non-agouti) Black Silver Bengal.

a/a - homozygous for non-agouti
I/i or I/I - heterozygous or homozygous for inhibitor

Most Bengals have two agouti genes (the gene that causes the pattern in the coat), but there are some that have one agouti gene and one non-agouti - so they are A/a.

If you mate two cats together that carry non-agouti (a), there is a 25% chance of getting a solid coloured cat (no pattern). And if one or both of the parents is silver, there is a chance that solid coloured cat will be a smoke (a combination of Silver and non-agouti).

They are easy to identify, as at least one parent must be silver, and if you part the hair, although it is black down most of it's length, the base of every hair is silver.

Charcoal

So, what causes 'charcoal'?

At this point in time (May 2013) nobody knows what causes charcoal, as they have only recently started to search for the cause of this colouration. So any statements about the 'charcoal gene' are pure speculation at this point in time.

It may be a single gene, or it may be a combination of genes, or it may just be a variation in an existing gene (such as the variation in the long hair gene that causes various lengths of long hair).

A charcoal is not a silver cat, and does not have to have a silver parent. It may or may not carry one non-agouti gene.

The cat is genetically a brown (black) bengal, but it is very dark in appearance and there is little or no rufous colouration.

So my own personal opinion is........ that the charcoal bengal is simply the other end of the 'brown scale' to a sorrel bengal. We don't hunt for a sorrel gene, we just accept that this is a brown (black) bengal, where the markings are brown, rather than black, and the coat has heavy rufous colouration.

So perhaps a charcoal bengal is a brown (black) bengal where the markings are all black, with no brown, and there is no rufous colouration.

Just my opinion, and only based on me looking at the pedigrees of the various 'charcoal' cats that I have seen. Only time (and lots of research) will give us the answer.

Melanistic

The melanistic bengal is simply a solid black cat (a non-agouti cat).

It is not silver, is not snow, and is not homozygous for any of the dilute genes.

Sometimes you can see a shadow of the pattern in the coat (often called 'black on black'), and sometimes you cannot see any pattern.

Bengal Cat
Coat Patterns and Colors

Bengals come in two basic patterns - spotted/rosetted and marble.

There are as many variations of spotted/rosetted and marble patterns as there are cats. The most important thing about both patterns is that the markings should be very clear and sharp appearing with strong contrast with the base color of the coat.  Spotted/rosetted bengals should have random markings with no stripes or bars.  Marble bengals should have a very flowing and random pattern.

spotted/rosetted	marble

Bengal Cat Markings

ROSETTES

There is a great range of shapes of  two-toned spot markings called "rosettes". 

Rosettes can be described as being of 4 major types - arrow, pawprint, donut, and cloud - in addition to single spots.  Some cats have a connected row of donut rosettes running parallel to the cat's spine on each side.  This is called "chaining"

A cat may have some of each type of rosette or the markings may be more uniform.

	Arrow rosettes
	Pawprint rosettes
	Donut rosettes
	Donut rosettes with "chaining"
	Cloud rosettes

There are four basic "marble" bengal patterns

	Horizontal flowing marble
	Reduced pattern horizontal flowing marble
	Chaos pattern marble
	Closed pattern or "sheet" marble
	Bullseye pattern - NOT DESIRED

In addition to the rosetted or marble pattern, there are three other factors that come into play when describing the color and pattern of a bengal.  "Glitter", "Patina" and "Ticking."
GLITTER - is the term bengal breeders use to describe a cat that has translucent hair shafts.  This translucence results in the cat appearing to be sprinkled with gold glitter in the gold bengals, cream-white glitter in the snow bengals and silvery-white glitter in the silver bengals.  It is most apparent on the paws as a translucent satin look or if the cat is in direct sunlight, the coat sparkles.  It is hard to capture in photos.  "Glitter" is inherited as a recessive gene and was introduced into the breed from one of the founding bengals - Millwood Tory of Dehli.

Glittered light gold bengal - notice satin looking paws

Glittered gold bengal - notice some "sparkle" on the sides and legs

PATINA- Any color & pattern of bengal can have black or dark tipped hairs that lay over the pattern blurring the pattern and giving the impression of having a black "patina" washed over just the shoulders and back of the cat.  This is different from "TICKING" that blurs the markings all over the cat.

	Gold-arrow rosettes with black patina
	Dark gold-arrow rosettes with dark brown patina

TICKING - is the result of the bands of color on each individual hair shaft being distributed on the hair shaft in such a way that it "BLURS" or causes a lack of sharp contrast between the ground color and the markings.  This occurs all over the body of the cat.

	Beige-brown arrow rosettes with ticking
	Dark beige-arrow rosettes with ticking
	Sorrel-arrow & pawprint rosettes with ticking

The Brown  or Ebony Bengals

Brown or ebony (spotted, rosetted or marble) bengals are the most common color. This color is accepted for showing in TICA and several other cat associations. 

There is tremendous variation in the range of coat colors that are all "brown or ebony" bengals.  Some are nearly steel gray with black markings and others are bright beige with rust markings.  All shades of brown Bengals will have black tail tips.

These two bengals demonstrate the extreme range of "brown or ebony" tabbies.  The rust colored - deep sorrel - marble bengal looking at us, is laying on a grey - tawny - black spotted bengal.  Genetically their basic color gene is the same -"B".  The fact that one is rust colored and the other grey/black is due to "multigenetic color modifiers" called "rufous polygenes."  The possible variations in tone from greyish to deep rust are almost endless.The difference in their pattern - one spotted and one marble - is controlled be a separate gene. The following are just some of the possibilities.

BEIGE BODY COLOR

1. beige-tan arrow rosettes	2. beige-black arrow & donut rosettes	3. beige-mixed black rosettes
4. beige-black arrow rosettes & spots	5. dark beige-mixed brown rosettes	6. dark beige-brown mixed rosettes
7. dark beige-brown donut rosettes	8. dark beige-rust arrow rosettes-ticking	9. dark beige-brown arrow rosettes with patina

GOLD BODY COLOR

1. light gold-black mixed rosttes	2. light gold-black donut rosettes	3. light gold-mixed rosettes
4. light gold-black cloud rosettes	5. light gold-pawprint rosttes	6. light gold-mixed donut rosettes
7. light gold-large donut rosettes	8. gold-large pawprint rosettes	9. gold-large pawprint rosettes
10. gold-mixed arrow rosettes	11. gold-donut rosettes	12. gold-mixed arrow rosettes
13. gold-mixed rosettes	14. gold-arrow rosettes	15. gold-mixed arrow & donut rosettes
16. gold-donut rosettes	17. gold-arrow rosettes with patina	18. rusty gold-small cloud rosettes
19. rusty gold-mixed arrow & donut rosettes	20. rusty gold-donut rosettes	21. rusty gold-small cloud rosettes
22. dark gold-donut rosettes	23. dark gold-large donut rosettes	24. dark gold-mixed arrow rosettes

25. dark gold-arrow rosettes	26. dark gold-donut rosettes with chaining	27. dark gold-arrow rosettes
28. dark gold-sm donut rosettes	29. dark gold-large donut rosettes	30. dark gold-arrow rosettes
31. dark gold-cloud rosettes	32. dark gold-pawprint rosettes	33.dark gold-arrow rosettes with patina

LIGHT RUST OR "SORREL" BODY COLOR WITH DARK RUST MARKINGS

1. light sorrel-arrow rosettes	2. light sorrel-arrow rosettes	3. sorrel-mixed arrow & donut rosettes
4. sorrel-mixed pawprint & donut rosettes	5. sorrel-arrow rosettes	6. sorrel-pawprint rosettes
7. sorrel-donut rosettes	8. sorrel-single spotted	9. sorrel-spots & arrow rosettes-ticking

10. dark sorrel-cloud rosettes	11. dark sorrel-donut rosettes	12. dark sorrel-donut rosettes with chaining
13. dark sorrel-large donut rosettes with chaining	14. dark sorrel-arrow rosettes	15. dark sorrel-donut rosettes

TAWNY - GREY BEIGE TO GREY - GROUND COLOR

1. light tawny-pawprint rosettes	2. light tawny-arrow rosettes-ticking	3. tawny-arrow rosettes
4. tawny-large pawprint rosettes	5. tawny-donut rosettes with chaining	6. tawny-mixed arrow & pawprint rosettes

7. tawny-donut rosettes

CHARCOAL BENGALS ARE VERY DISTINCTIVE WITH THEIR COLD GREY BACKGROUND COLOR, DEEP BLACK MARKINGS WHICH INCLUDE BLACK NOSE BRIDGE WITH VERY LIGHT EYE RINGS, AND ALMOST SOLID BLACK ALONG THE TOP OF THE BACK

1 charcoal-arrow rosettes	2. charcoal-arrow rosettes with ticking	3. charcoal face pattern
4. charcoal arrow rosettes with patina

MARBLE BENGALS COME IN ALL THE SAME COLORS AND SHADES AS ROSETTED BENGALS.  THE MARBLE PATTERN IS CAUSED BY A RECESSIVE GENE.  THESE ARE ALL "BROWN OR EBONY" MARBLES.

1. beige-open pattern marble	2. tawny-open pattern marble	3. gold-horizontal flowing & chaos pattern tri-color marble
4. gold-horizontal flowing tri color marble	5. gold-horizontal flowing tri color marble	6. gold-horizontal flowing tri color marble
7. light gold-black reduced pattern or sheet marble	8. gold-brown reduced pattern or sheet marble	9. sorrel-reduced pattern or sheet marble
10. beige-brown chaos pattern marble with chaining	11.beige-black chaos pattern with chaining	12.light gold-tri colored mixed flowing & chaos pattern
13. gold-brown chaos pattern	14. gold-tri colored chaos pattern	15. gold-black marble TOO BULLSEYE

The "Snows"

The so-called "snow" bengals come in actually 3 slightly genetically different colors: Seal lynx point, seal mink and seal sepia. It is often hard to tell the difference between the seal minks and the seal sepias in person or in photos.  There are now genetic tests that can be done to help breeders define which color they have.  The easiest to tell is the seal lynx point because they must have blue eyes.

Seal Lynx Point -- which have a very light cream ground color, dark chocolate markings and, usually, slightly darker legs, tails and ears.  These cats MUST have blue eyes.

Seal Sepia -- which have a cream/tan background and very dark bitter chocolate markings. These cats have green eyes.

Seal Mink -- which are actually a genetic blend of the above two colors--a cream background with slightly warmer brown markings and, often, blue-green or aqua eyes.

All three "Snow" colors can be shown in TICA and several other associations.

1. seal lynx - arrow rosettes	2. seal lynx - donut rosettes	3. seal lynx - arrow rosettes
1. seal mink - arrow rosettes	2. seal mink- pawprint rosettes	3. seal mink - mixed donut rosettes
1. seal sepia - donut rosettes	2. seal sepia - pawprint rosettes	3. seal sepia - donut rosettes
1. seal lynx-marble -flowing pattern	2. seal lynx-marble-partial bullseye
1. seal mink - marble - chaos pattern
1. seal sepia - marble - partial bullseye	2. seal sepia - marble - chaos pattern

The Silver Bengals

Silver bengals have a nearly white ground color with black markings.

1. silver-black arrow rosettes	2. silver-black donut rosettes	3. silver-black donut rosettes with chaining
4. silver black arrow rosettes	5. silver-black mixed rosettes with patina	6. silver-slate sm cloud rosettes
7. silver-slate mixed rosettes	8. silver-slate donut rosettes with chaining	9. silver-light slate mixed rosettes
10. silver-light slate mixed rosettes	11. silver-slate donut rosettes with tarnish	12. silver-light slate mixed rosettes with tarnish
11.silver-marble-black partial bullseye pattern	12. silver-marble-slate chaos pattern	13. silver-black smoke

The Solid Blacks

Solid black bengals occasionally occur in litters.  Since they can not be shown for championship points, they are not as popular with breeders.  However there are several breeders working on developing exquisite appearing black bengals. Just think about how beautiful black leopards are and you can see why many people enjoy owning one.

black bengal kittens at 9 weeks	black 16 week old kitten

The Blue Bengals

Blue bengals rarely occur in litters. They can not be shown for championship points, so, again, most breeders do not breed for this color.  Blue bengals have gun metal gray markings on a powder blue body.  Many people find they really like the color once they have seen one.

blue spotted bengal	blue rosetted

 

How patterns develop

I am often asked how a certain kitten's coat color and pattern will look when it matures.  I have tried to take some pictures to give an idea of the changes a coat may go through as the kitten grows. 

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tawny rosetted

at 3 weeks
 
at 6 weeks
 
at 5 months
 
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Light gold rosetted
at 3 weeks


at 5 weeks

at 8 weeks

at 12 weeks

at 1 year