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Marbled Bengal mix or Marbled Tabby??
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I believe from the pics that you have a blotched tabby. Someone who can be totally sure will probably answer you soon. She is beautiful, and will make a wonderful companion.Possibly a marbled tabby. Enjoy her.
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Hi, I have a similar issue.
I rescued my Marco when he was a tiny feral kitten. He was up among the pipes in the cave-like pipe shaft over the water cistern in the basement car park of my apartment building and had been mewling--howling, really, I originally thought he was a howling puppy--for over 24 hours when I finally climbed up there and fished him out. He was so tiny I could hold him on one hand, and so weak he could barely walk, but he still did his best to be fierce and hiss at me. I had to bottle feed him at first.
I assumed he was a tabby, but then he grew all out in spots, which I'd never seen before. He also acts like no other cat I've ever had. He has long, powerful legs, especially his back legs. I have 13 foot ceilings in this house, and he can do a sitting leap and knock a spider off the wall a foot from the top. He has great big paws with huge 'toes' and a really solid lower jaw with a powerful crush bite. He never lets me out of his sight, follows me everywhere, and makes the weirdest collection of sounds, from teeny chip-chippy little things to gravelly wildcat snarling. He's very wild. I'm the only human he trusts at all.
With his behavior and his spots, I began to wonder what on earth I had gotten myself into. Did some research online and found out about Bengals and Leopard Cats. I'd never heard of them before. I live in Taiwan, on the outskirts of a small city in an area with forest and scrub where a lot of new housing has been going up recently. While we have plenty of feral cats here, I've never seen one that looks quite like my guy. He's definitely no leopard cat, but I could see him being an F2, even an F1 at a stretch, from photos I've seen.
So, is Marco an 'accidental Bengal', so to speak? Or just a wild and crazy spotted tabby? Whatever he is, he's the most amazing, astonishing, awesome cat I've ever known.
I rescued my Marco when he was a tiny feral kitten. He was up among the pipes in the cave-like pipe shaft over the water cistern in the basement car park of my apartment building and had been mewling--howling, really, I originally thought he was a howling puppy--for over 24 hours when I finally climbed up there and fished him out. He was so tiny I could hold him on one hand, and so weak he could barely walk, but he still did his best to be fierce and hiss at me. I had to bottle feed him at first.
I assumed he was a tabby, but then he grew all out in spots, which I'd never seen before. He also acts like no other cat I've ever had. He has long, powerful legs, especially his back legs. I have 13 foot ceilings in this house, and he can do a sitting leap and knock a spider off the wall a foot from the top. He has great big paws with huge 'toes' and a really solid lower jaw with a powerful crush bite. He never lets me out of his sight, follows me everywhere, and makes the weirdest collection of sounds, from teeny chip-chippy little things to gravelly wildcat snarling. He's very wild. I'm the only human he trusts at all.
With his behavior and his spots, I began to wonder what on earth I had gotten myself into. Did some research online and found out about Bengals and Leopard Cats. I'd never heard of them before. I live in Taiwan, on the outskirts of a small city in an area with forest and scrub where a lot of new housing has been going up recently. While we have plenty of feral cats here, I've never seen one that looks quite like my guy. He's definitely no leopard cat, but I could see him being an F2, even an F1 at a stretch, from photos I've seen.
So, is Marco an 'accidental Bengal', so to speak? Or just a wild and crazy spotted tabby? Whatever he is, he's the most amazing, astonishing, awesome cat I've ever known.
