Bengal: Growing up seal lynx marble

She is gorgeous! I can't wait to see what she looks like as an adult!

Please, please, pretty please, keep the pictures coming!

Okay, I take it back...you can send that Bengal over to teach Sabina how to door surf!

Originally Posted by Kai Bengals

Loki is her father, her mother is Kenya. They are both brown spotted, but carry for snow (seal). Out of the litter of six, she is the only snow bengal.

All seal lynx point bengals have blue eyes, so her eyes will remain blue, unless she fools us and is really a seal mink. In a perfect world, if she were seal mink her eyes would have turned green already. So, I'm pretty confident she is a seal lynx.

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Just curious. Which do you get more excited about the seal lynx or seal mink? Is one more valuable over the other? I take it they are rare if you've only had three in your 10 years of breeding.

I have a question, We have a weirdo Bengal Queen. She's got a real light color. What's the difference between seal point and seal lynx? I'll post a url.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...arma/Chaka.jpg
Any ideas as what color she is? WoW! That's a cool kitty you got there. Wish we could find some room for a fifth! I'd be looking your way.

Don't know what color - but she sure is pretty - what's the color listed on the pedigree/registration?

Originally Posted by Abymummy

Lemme ask you a question Nail...

Not counting color - can you judge a new born kitten's quality? - I mean the basics - profile, type etc?

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No I can't. I can rely a bit on parentage.
I.E. knowing what a specific pairing has produced in the past.
3 to 4 months of age seems to be the best age to make semi-final decisions on quality.

Originally Posted by snosrap5

Just curious. Which do you get more excited about the seal lynx or seal mink? Is one more valuable over the other? I take it they are rare if you've only had three in your 10 years of breeding.

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I think I'd get most excited about having a Seal Sepia. Have yet to have one of those. And I'd be ecstatic to have a melanistic.

Rodeo and Hau Kea were both seal minbk, so it's going to be fun to have this seal lynx girl for a change.

The seals are more rare for us, because we don't breed for them specifically. Some breeders have lots of them.

Originally Posted by Sailfish

I have a question, We have a weirdo Bengal Queen. She's got a real light color. What's the difference between seal point and seal lynx? I'll post a url.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...arma/Chaka.jpg
Any ideas as what color she is? WoW! That's a cool kitty you got there. Wish we could find some room for a fifth! I'd be looking your way.

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The "snow" bengal comes in 3 colors:
Seal Mink
Seal Lynx Point
Seal Sepia

Hmmm, if Chaka's a seal (from the head shot she looks it), then she's a Sepia.

Sepia= Gold eyes
Mink= Green eyes
Lynx Pt = Blue eyes

I think you helped me out a lot here. The Eyes! I'll post one more shot. (embarrassing) so you can see her body color. We never filed her papers or any other of our cats. Never saw a need to.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rma/OHND-1.jpg

So the Melanistic is all black, no shadow spots at all? Do they have black paws and a black nose? Can they be shown?

I did some research into the snow bengal pattern because I was curious about why they're only split into two categories in the UK while there are three in the States.

Basically the snow bengals are pointed. There are two genes that can give a pointed effect.

There's the siamese gene, which well siamese cats have and give lots of contrast between point and body and the body can be very pale. It's recessive so you need two of those to get that pattern.

Then there's the burmese gene which has a lot less contrast and the body is quite dark. Also a recessive gene.

Then there's tonkinese which is a cat with one siamese type pointed gene and one burmese type pointed gene and looks something between the two.

A cat with two copies of the siamese pointed gene will always have blue eyes.

Lynx point = two siamese pointed genes,
Mink = one burmese type and one siamese
Sepia = two burmese type genes

The eye colour can vary in the Mink and Sepias and go from aqua to gold and green. (Aqua only in the minks since that's the tonkinese type colour).

In the UK they decided it was too hard to tell between cats that were Mink and Sepia, especially since when the kittens are registered it's not clear which is which since it takes time for the pattern to come in properly. The lynx points are easy to pick out because they're born all white (or with very faint markings) and always have blue eyes.

So they split the snows into blue eyed snow and any other coloured eyed snow to make it easier to register the kittens.

The bengal pattern is of course overlaid on top of the pointed colouring and the spots will be darkest on the Sepias and lightest on the Lynx point since the lynx's have the palest body colour.

Originally Posted by snosrap5

So the Melanistic is all black, no shadow spots at all? Do they have black paws and a black nose? Can they be shown?

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Melanistics do have spots and they can be seen best in sunlight when viewing the cat at an angle. I'm not positive on the paw pads and nose leather, but the ones I've seen were all black.

I'm pretty sure the UFO is allowing this color of bengal to be shown in championship. TICA is allowing preliminary new breed trait showing. There was a melanistic at the St Petersburg show. They aren't allowed in regular competition yet.

She is beautiful I love her eyes and her color is stunning. She is going to be a stunning cat as she grows. Thank you for sharing.

Originally Posted by Sailfish

I think you helped me out a lot here. The Eyes! I'll post one more shot. (embarrassing) so you can see her body color. We never filed her papers or any other of our cats. Never saw a need to.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rma/OHND-1.jpg

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From this picture, she looks like a brown spotted Bengal to me. Much the same colour as my Simba. She is quite beautiful, and has lovely rosettes. Or am I looking at Beau? I'm looking at the cat on the left.

Originally Posted by snosrap5

So the Melanistic is all black, no shadow spots at all? Do they have black paws and a black nose? Can they be shown?

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If you want to see some cool pictures of Melanistic Bengals go to this site: They have a lot of unique and cool Bengal's as well as an F1 Bengal.


http://www.purr-fectsavannahs.com/pu...rifemales.html


Here's another link to the Melanitic Bengal. Pictures are a little small and not quite as clear, but it gives you and idea.

http://www.simplysimesbengals.com/si...melanistic.htm

Wow they are cool looking

They kinda remind me of smoke EM's cause its hard to see the spotting on some. Others are really nice contrast.

But you have to remember that the black jaguars (black panters) have spotting too. And almost every black cat/kitten I've seen you can see some kind of tabby markings as a baby or in the right sunlight.

Do you have any photos of adult seal lynx marble bengals? I've never seen one so I'd be interested to see the possible "end product".

Kai Bengals!

I have a question. What pattern is the bengal in your avatar? Her/His eyes look green. From reading this thread, I now see that's possible for a bengal to have green eyes. I thought they only had gold/copper. Learned some new things today.

Anyways he/she is gorgeous!

It's very common for Bengal's to have green eyes. Both of my Bengals have green eyes. In my signature, Simba's eyes look more yellow, but believe me, they're green.

Originally Posted by HopeHacker

It's very common for Bengal's to have green eyes. Both of my Bengals have green eyes. In my signature, Simba's eyes look more yellow, but believe me, they're green.

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wow!!!

I bet Simba is even more beautiful in person than he already looks in your signature picture then!

I really love green and blue eyes.