Marble Pattern Cat

These swirls are usually quite random and resemble a marble cake.

Marble pattern cat. They have come a long way in the past 20 years. His name is forrest. High acreage or reduced pattern. Pictured below are photos of one of our black and brown gold marble patterned bengal kitten.

A bengal cat is a cross between a domestic cat and asian leopard cat. Forrest was only two weeks old in this photo. The pattern of. The marbled cat was once considered to belong to the pantherine lineage of cats.

When marble kittens are born they are mainly a solid color with just a few specs of a contrasting color. There are many colors and patterns too. The 5 tabby cat patterns. We do not breed classic tabbies we only breed bengals.

The patterns on both tabbies pictured are both symmetrical. The classic tabby has bold swirling patterns along his sides much like a marble cake. They have been in competition in the shows for a several years now. This style of marbling is highly desired in the marble pattern.

Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched. The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. The spotted pattern is the most common but the marble pattern is lovely too. This tabby is called a blotched tabby in some regions.

The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors. Jean mill is the creator of this wonderful breed of cats. This is used to describe when you see the marble pattern flowing from the upper shoulder along the body to the back of the cat in a horizontal fashion. Mackerel tabby featured image credit.

This pattern resembles the skeleton of a fish hence the name. A desirable bengal marbled pattern will look similar to a classic but it is stretched out along the spine and sides of the kitten cat with asymmetrical markings using the spine as the axis. This affect is much like the markings on a boa constrictor.