SNOW brrrrrrrrr BENGAL

All I can say is WOW. What a beautiful cat. Can you please move your cattery to the UK so I can have a kitten from you

Woah! Beautiful! love the coloring! Adorable!

Gorgeous, gorgeous cat!

Originally Posted by Bullit

All I can say is WOW.

What a beautiful cat. Can you please move your cattery to the UK so I can have a kitten from you

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And then onto Australia? I know Max wouldn't be able to say no to my repeated, persistent, daily beggings for a Bengal if he saw one of yours!

WOW, he is amazing and what a gorgeous name, i love Bengals and i've always wanted one myself. There aren't enough words to describe his beauty, stunning.

Must....resist....temptation.....Want....a....BENGAL!!!!!

He is lovely... Now for my stupid question.. what is the difference between silver , snow and sepia??

Originally Posted by sharky

He is lovely... Now for my stupid question.. what is the difference between silver , snow and sepia??

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Not stupid at all, it can get confusing.

Snow is a generic term for three different colors:

Seal Mink, Seal Sepia, and Seal Lynx Point

The ground color should be ivory on the snows.


Sliver tabby is a whole different color.

Ground color is a sparkling silver, like what might be seen on an american shorthair.

Thank you

He's gorgeous!

Oooh I love snows!

Aside from your signature, I had never seen a bengal before. These pictures rendered me speechless... I've been sitting here in the same kind of awe I feel when I see tigers at the zoo.

I had no idea such cats existed!

While were at it i'll go ahead and ad my snow to the thread. Luxor is also a mink bengal male.

Originally Posted by Kai Bengals

Not stupid at all, it can get confusing.

Snow is a generic term for three different colors:

Seal Mink, Seal Sepia, and Seal Lynx Point

The ground color should be ivory on the snows.


Sliver tabby is a whole different color.

Ground color is a sparkling silver, like what might be seen on an american shorthair.

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Just to add a little to the already excellent info. above~~
The snow colors come from the Burmese and Siamese gene (depending on what kind of snow your talking about) and the silver is actually a totaly different gene which inhibits colors. It not technically a color it actually keeps the background color from showing itself. You can have a silver anything, even a silver snow.
There are 96 total combinations of color that a bengal can have but only 8 are accepted!

Both are very beautiful boys.

He is absolutely gorgeous!

so pretty! i'm jealoush
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beautiful!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by bengalbabe

Just to add a little to the already excellent info. above~~
The snow colors come from the Burmese and Siamese gene (depending on what kind of snow your talking about) and the silver is actually a totaly different gene which inhibits colors. It not technically a color it actually keeps the background color from showing itself. You can have a silver anything, even a silver snow.
There are 96 total combinations of color that a bengal can have but only 8 are accepted!

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Yah just to add to what you said: silvers in bengals come from the Egyptian Mau outcross. Hope has a silver bengal in her heritage who in turn has Egyptian Mau in his heritage. It seems to be a really strong gene as far as litters are concerned. If one parent is silver most likely everyone in the litter is silver (as was with Hope). Because her mom was a brown spotted she actually has a little color break-through along her spine. Eventually in a breeding program you don't want any break-through at all.

I loooove snows. The breeder I work with is really really into silvers in her breeding program. If I were to go to another color besides the traditional brown spotted, I'd go with snows .

Originally Posted by SolarityBengals

Yah just to add to what you said: silvers in bengals come from the Egyptian Mau outcross. Hope has a silver bengal in her heritage who in turn has Egyptian Mau in his heritage. It seems to be a really strong gene as far as litters are concerned. If one parent is silver most likely everyone in the litter is silver (as was with Hope). Because her mom was a brown spotted she actually has a little color break-through along her spine. Eventually in a breeding program you don't want any break-through at all.

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The most popular silver lines come from American Shorthairs =0)
Egyptian Maus have too much ticking, it is part of the Egyption Mau breed standard and it's the opposite of what we want in our Bengal lines. We want as little ticking as possible.
True silver is a dominant gene however unless the silver parent is homozygous for silver there's only a 50-50 chance that the kittens of a silver and non silver parent will be silver since browns can't throw silvers (or the inhibitor gene since silver is not technically a color, it is the lack of color). Unless the silver parent is homozygous for silver and you breed it to a brown-if that's the case the silver parent will always pass the dominant 'I" gene and even though the kittens will all have the non silver gene (i) and the silver gene (I)because silver is dominant all the resulting kittens will look silver but be carrying for brown and silver.
You can reduce tarnishing if you breed the silver to another silver or if your breeding brown to silver use a brown that has as little roufesing as possible (like to a charcoal colored brown).