Marbled Tabby Bengal

Tabby cats and bengal cats can often look very similar.

Marbled tabby bengal. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. The kitten on the left is a spotted and the other one on the right is a blue marble. My motto about a bengal cat is be prepared and read up on this breed. Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too.

A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat. Domestic seal point tabby cat by cassie j originally posted to flickr as troubles this version from wikimedia commons. And quite a few marbled breeds like the marbled manx cats the marbled british shorthairs. The marbled pattern occurs nowhere else in nature while called a brown marbled look for the tricolor marbled kitten.

The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. Above picture are two of my blue bengal s from sundari and mercedes both these blue females sire is sno bound he carry s the blue gene and he him self is the color of sepia sundari sire is ver sachi he carries the blue gene and her dam is mercedes also carries the blue gene. The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors. Without a bill of sale.

The marbled tabby is a long horizonal type of marking. Marbled bengal cats are quite often somewhat symmetrical. You should also note the color of the coat which is typically brown or gold in bengal cats but sometimes also gray charcoal silver or blue. Kinda like you stretched out the bullseye and made it long and broken now with the ocicat the spotting on the sides should resemble a bullseye but not a definate one.

In this article we re going to be more specific about what makes bengals different to the other cats we ve mentioned. Patterns should be symmetrical on both sides of the body and the pattern should swirl and flow around the body like the colors in a glass marble. If it is a bengal people won t except it without papers. To identify a bengal cat look for a spotted coat since all bengal cats have one.

Also take a look at the cat s physical build. Marbled british shorthair marbled oriental tabby marbled manx tabby on our bengal cat facts page we explain lots of different facts about us bengals which may help you if you want further information about the breed.