Bengal Cat Marbled Pattern

This is often called a marbled pattern variation.

Bengal cat marbled pattern.

The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. We have compiled photos of several different wild cats that help show the patterns and wild look that bengal breeders are working towards in the above photo album. Bengal coats also come in a marbled pattern. While most commonly seen in the brown spotted tabby pattern they may also be found in the marbled pattern classic tabby.

The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors. Forrest was only two weeks old in this photo. Because of the fluid body movements of the bengal cat this pattern gives a striking wild look. Next is the marbled bengal.

It was due to the overwhelming popular demand of cat show judges and audiences clamoring to see this amazing marble kitten in madison square garden and all over the country that jean mill began campaigning to add the marbled pattern to the bengal breed standard. They have an athletic build and very rarely develop the saggy belly that many other cat. Bengal cats also have a striped black tipped tail. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl.

Their golden shimmer comes from their leopard cat ancestry and their coats may show spots rosettes arrowhead markings or. Its coat is full of swirls giving the appearance of a boa snake s pattern. When marble kittens are born they are mainly a solid color with just a few specs of a contrasting color. While there are only two patterns under which bengals cats are shown spotted or marble there are descriptive terms used to define the types of pattern seen.

The marbled bengal can come in either the traditional brown colors silver or snow coloring and even in the unrecognized colors. His name is forrest. Bengal cats are usually quite large and lean. As we all know the very first bengal originated from a cross between the asian leopard cat alc with the domestic shorthair tabby.

Notice the large athletic build. The goal of each subsequent breeding is to perpetuate desirable traits as much as possible such as a horizontally aligned pattern whether spotted or marbled smaller ears thicker tails with black tips solid bone structure egg shaped heads black paw pads. The spotted pattern is the most common but the marble pattern is lovely too. Bengals have a wild appearance.

Pictured below are photos of one of our black and brown gold marble patterned bengal kitten. Originally her intent had only been to produce a domestic spotted bengal cat.