Comments on: Bengal Cats http://hybridcatbreeds.com A guide to domestic hybrid cats Sat, 22 May 2010 22:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Julie http://hybridcatbreeds.com/bengal-cats/comment-page-1/#comment-702 Julie Sun, 26 Jul 2009 03:18:33 +0000 http://hybridcatbreeds.com/?page_id=8#comment-702 My friend has a spotted little female that kinda looks like the spotted cats in these pictures.. I think it's a bangal.. How do we tell with out spending $500.00 for DNA testing My friend has a spotted little female that kinda looks like the spotted cats in these pictures.. I think it’s a bangal.. How do we tell with out spending $500.00 for DNA testing

]]> By: Messybeast http://hybridcatbreeds.com/bengal-cats/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Messybeast Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:47:14 +0000 http://hybridcatbreeds.com/?page_id=8#comment-200 In 1889, Harrison Weir wrote in "Our Cats and All About Them": There is a rich-coloured brown tabby hybrid to be seen at the Zoological Society Gardens in Regent's Park, between the wild cat of Bengal and a tabby she-cat. It is handsome, but very wild. These hybrids, I am told, will breed again with tame variety, or with others. However, in 1927, Mr Boden-Kloss wrote to "Cat Gossip" regarding hybrids between wild and domestic cats in Malaya: "I have never heard of hybrids between bengalensis (the Leopard Cat) and domestic cats. One of the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula has domesticated cats, and I have seen the woman suckling bengalensis kittens, but I do not know whether the latter survive and breed with the others!" Possibly the earliest documented Leopard Cat/domestic hybrid was in 1934 in a Belgian scientific journal. In 1941 a Japanese cat publication printed an article about a hybrid that was kept as a pet. In 1946, Jean Sugden, considered the founder of the Bengal breed, submitted a term paper on the subject of cross breeding cats in 1946 for her genetics class at UC Davis. http://www.messybeast.com/small-hybrids/bengalensis-margay-hybrids.htm In 1889, Harrison Weir wrote in “Our Cats and All About Them”: There is a rich-coloured brown tabby hybrid to be seen at the Zoological Society Gardens in Regent’s Park, between the wild cat of Bengal and a tabby she-cat. It is handsome, but very wild. These hybrids, I am told, will breed again with tame variety, or with others. However, in 1927, Mr Boden-Kloss wrote to “Cat Gossip” regarding hybrids between wild and domestic cats in Malaya: “I have never heard of hybrids between bengalensis (the Leopard Cat) and domestic cats. One of the wild tribes of the Malay Peninsula has domesticated cats, and I have seen the woman suckling bengalensis kittens, but I do not know whether the latter survive and breed with the others!”

Possibly the earliest documented Leopard Cat/domestic hybrid was in 1934 in a Belgian scientific journal. In 1941 a Japanese cat publication printed an article about a hybrid that was kept as a pet. In 1946, Jean Sugden, considered the founder of the Bengal breed, submitted a term paper on the subject of cross breeding cats in 1946 for her genetics class at UC Davis.

http://www.messybeast.com/small-hybrids/bengalensis-margay-hybrids.htm

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