Marble Pattern Cat

They have been in competition in the shows for a several years now.

Marble pattern cat.

Forrest was only two weeks old in this photo. The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. The pattern of. This style of marbling is highly desired in the marble pattern.

The 5 tabby cat patterns. 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. The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.

The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. We do not breed classic tabbies we only breed bengals. The marbled cat was once considered to belong to the pantherine lineage of cats. There are many colors and patterns too.

The patterns on both tabbies pictured are both symmetrical. The marbled cat pardofelis marmorata is a small wild cat native from the eastern himalayas to southeast asia where it inhabits forests up to 2 500 m 8 200 ft altitude as it is present in a large range it has been listed as near threatened on the iucn red list since 2015. The classic tabby has bold swirling patterns along his sides much like a marble cake. 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.

High acreage or reduced pattern. His name is forrest. Sometimes called a tiger cat mackerel tabbies have one solid dark stripe along their spine with more stripes branching off. 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.

Jean mill is the creator of this wonderful breed of cats. This affect is much like the markings on a boa constrictor. These swirls are usually quite random and resemble a marble cake. When marble kittens are born they are mainly a solid color with just a few specs of a contrasting color.

Mackerel tabby featured image credit. Pictured below are photos of one of our black and brown gold marble patterned bengal kitten. They have come a long way in the past 20 years.