Spotted Cat Designs

We have two Bengal cats, Charger and Aurum. All of our cats have distinctive voices, yet we have noticed that our Bengals tend to “sing” more often and with a wider range of notes.

Bengals were bred in part from the Asian Leopard Cat (ALC). So I was amazed to find this
1.4 Mb QuickTime movie of an ALC sounding off. Here’s the link from The International Bengal Society:

http://www.bengalcat.com/aboutbengals/animatedalc.aspx

Funny thing is, neither of our Bengals respond much to hearing this recording, but our mixed breed cats do look up and around to see who is making that noise.

Cloned Bengal Kittens To Star At CFA Cat Show

This weekend, visitors to the CFA/IAMS cat show at Madison Square Garden in New York City will be able to see Tabouli and Baba Ganoush, two kittens that have been cloned from a Bengal cat named Tahini.

The irony of this is that the CFA (Cat Fanciers’ Association) does not recognize the Bengal breed (one of the most popular in the United States), and so Tabouli and Baba Ganoush will probably be the first and last Bengals ever to appear at a CFA show.

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How Glory Came to Live with Us

Finding our first purebred cat was an interesting experience, and much more pleasant than, say, buying a car.

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Yep, we’ve gone and done it one more time — finally getting, we think, the cat we wanted in the first place (not that we’re unhappy with Panther and Jennifur, just that…well, we’re very purr-ticular, I guess).
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