She's a domestic short hair mackerel tabby. Nothing like a stripey cat is there. : ) She looks quite a bit too young to have left her mama and litter mates though. Where did she come from?

 

Can't see much from that photo, but she does appear to be a brown mackeral tabby domestic as lorilu said.

 

I will try take a better one because all her sides are spots, strips on the legs and a dotty belly.i was told she was 8 weeks I got her from a lady with a farm, who to be honest I don't think knew anything about cats. I'd Rough guess only 6 weeks

 

 

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Broken mackeral tabby, most tabbies have spotted tummies, nothing to do with being a Bengal. She's very cute

8 weeks is still too young to leave mum, they should be at least 12 weeks. Does she need to wear a collar? They can be dangerous especially on kittens who can get into places they may get caught.

 

She's adorable and not a drop of Bengal in her. She's a lovely domestic shorthair, also known as moggie.

 

She's a very pretty girl. I wouldn't bother with the collar at that age. What's her name?

 

Mia and it's gone now she just thought it was a toy (collar)

 

She is absolutely gorgeous. But as others have said she is a beautiful domestic short hair. My Yogi is a classic brown tabby. And my Tiga is a seal tabby colourpoint. She looks like a happy little girl. Bengals and Bengal crosses have like a golden sheen to their coat. The snow bengals look like they have silver sheen going through their coat also. Bengals are also high maintenance as they need a lot of attention. They need to be kept busy playing and some people walk them to tire them out. Jason Galaxy the cat daddy. Had to work out a plan for someone who had a Bengal or Bengal cross as the cat was getting aggressive with their other cat because he was bored.

Viv xx

 

She is absolutely gorgeous. But as others have said she is a beautiful domestic short hair. My Yogi is a classic brown tabby. And my Tiga is a seal tabby colourpoint. She looks like a happy little girl. Bengals and Bengal crosses have like a golden sheen to their coat. The snow bengals look like they have silver sheen going through their coat also. Bengals are also high maintenance as they need a lot of attention. They need to be kept busy playing and some people walk them to tire them out. Jason Galaxy the cat daddy. Had to work out a plan for someone who had a Bengal or Bengal cross as the cat was getting aggressive with their other cat because he was bored.

Viv xx

Her coat glistens like a separate coat of snow can't see on pics, also might just be age but she is so vocal all the time, so energetic compared to my other cat, likes to bite. And I already wormed flead her taking her to vets Tuesday for a check up and to get a neutering date

 

What a cutie you have there! Very pretty markings. Her eyes are no longer blue so she probably is about 7 or 8 weeks old.
Has she been wormed and flead? Coming from a farm you might want to get onto that asap. Also a vet check in the next few days to see when she can be vaccinated and spayed.

 

I had a moggie girl with similar marking and very athletic...no wonder if she comes from farm cats! Looks very cute.

 

Here is a picture of a Bengal Hun. You can clearly see the golden sheen in the coat

Viv xx

 

Thank you all her markings and fur and behaviour just seemed so different to any cat I have ever had, I just wanted to ask opinions

 

She is adorable. And look forward to seeing more pictures of her as she grows. If she is biting. A lot of kittens bite as like our babies they put everything in their mouths. If she bites have a toys to hand and when she bites substitute the toy for your hand. And if she bites give a little squeal, this is what her litter mates would do if she hurt one of them. Looking forward to hearing more about your new baby. . @Mellissa Askham

Viv xx

 

I will post pics when she is older and I have been doing I watch my cat from hell alot lol
Was online earlier and a kitten has the same sheen to her fur as my Mia (my phone seems to makes hers vanish)
Is this what you ment my a sheen to there coat? It's not Mia but coat is same

 

You seem to very much want your kitten to be a "bengal". It doesn't matter. And without pedigree papers, she is a domestic short hair, color brown, pattern mackerel tabby, as has been said. She is special just as she is, she doesn't need a breed label to be special. I suggest you forget all that and just enjoy her for who she is.

 

You seem to very much want your kitten to be a "bengal". It doesn't matter. And without pedigree papers, she is a domestic short hair, color brown, pattern mackerel tabby, as has been said. She is special just as she is, she doesn't need a breed label to be special. I suggest you forget all that and just enjoy her for who she is.

I understand the point you are making here but I have to disagree(in principal)
Without a pedigree certificate an animal cannot be classed as a "pedigree example of its breed" this does not mean that it is not a genuine fully fledged member of the breed in question,(not that I am saying in this case the kitten in question is a Bengal.)

 

I was curious as if she is, the breed needs special care and I would want to give her the best. If I wanted a Bengal specially I would of saved some wages and bought one. I just wanted a kitty

 

But it does matter, just because a cat,dog or what ever, doesn't have a piece of paper which says it is a specific "breed" (and lets face it they are not always correct ) does not mean that it isnt a member of that breed.
To say that it is a moggy is not necessarily true,it may well be that it is but without knowing you can no more say that it is a moggy than you can say it isnt.

 

I fully agree buffie too. I had an unregistered Ragdoll. Unfortunately untill I was introduced by chinablue to this fabulous site I didn't even know that back yard breeders existed. Unfortunately for my poor baby Bailey he was sick from day one, and I lost him at a year old to FIP. I will never forget this boy. But even then to buy from a good breeder is not a guarantee that the cat will be healthy. Just look at my Yogi. He has stunted growth and he is a ticking time bomb. If the Antirobe ever stops working or it starts to affect his liver or kydneys we won't have our gorgeous boy anymore. And when the vet stopped his Antirobe within days his symptoms came back. So we are between the devil and the deep blue sea. The vet says if he ever got out he would have approximately two weeks to live without his medication. You can get cross breed cats just as you can get cross breed dogs. One of our neighbours had a cross breed Bengal. And apart from her being smaller than a Bengal she looked every inch like a full Bengal.and behaved like one. She was allowed to roam the estate and used to go and visit all the neighbours for cuddles her name was Rosie. He love of people was her downfall she was stolen shortly after her owners wife died.

Viv xx

 

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Buffie, generally speaking that's absolutely true - Of course it's POSSIBLE to have an unregistered purebred.
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It's even *possible* to find a purebred who's stray or abandoned, or to buy one from a clueless former owner, however U cannot prove that particular animal is a purebred, nor can U register her or his progeny as purebred - because U have no pedigree to support that claim.
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And specifically in this case - this kitty is a delightful example of a purebred Domestic Shorthair [DSH] also known as a moggie, the coat color is brown tabby, there are agouti markings on individual hairs in her tabby stripes, & black stripes between the tabby stripes. Her coat pattern is known as mackerel because it resembles the markings on the fish.
(Tabbies also come in marbled coat patterns, which have swirls where she has stripes.)
Her spotted belly is a nice plus.
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Does she have a brick-red nose leather, with a nice dark line edging it? that's one of my favorite markings.
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Just wondering what extra care a Bengal needs?

 

Bengals get bored easy I believe, so just extra fun toys and harder to do, more things to climb that sort of stuff? I no some ordinary cats need extra fun too, but for bengals it's a must I thought anyway.

 

My Granny would have called her a strippit yin:Cat Not sure of spelling

She's sweet

 

I can see where you are coming from @Mellissa Askham in wanting to know about extra care and if your kitten did happen to have bengal in her then it would be helpful to know if she was pre disposed to any genetic conditions. You could always have a look at Langfords testing - it's easy to get a swab and send in yourself (your vet should also do it for you).

Progressive Retinol Atrophy and Pryuvate Kinase Deficiency are 2 that Langfords test for in Bengals.

 

Thank you, she's off to the vets today, get her aged so I can get her jabs microchiped and booked for neutering
I will ask vet about it, I've got a cavalier and I know how many genetic conditions can be in pure breds
I'm hoping the vet can see clearly if she's part Bengal or not.

 

Cannot help in any way, but just wanted to say that both Mia and Enzo are absolutely gorgeous!

I look forward to seeing lots more photo's of them both xx

 

This is my boy Tiger, he's a regular domestic shorthair tabby. He's not even a mackerel tabby going by his markings.
He looked a little like your girl when he was younger, sadly I don't have any decent photo's of him that show his markings when they were still "clear". They've sort of blended as he's aged, his belly spots used to be nice and clean but they are a lot more blurred now. Same for the rest of his markings.

These are the best photo's of him when younger. Your girl has striped sides, my boy has a "ring" on his sides lol.

 

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hey, AA!
Ur boy's a marbled tabby, & very handsome, too.
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Part of the reason for blurring with age & growth is that different colors of hair can grow to different lengths -
kitten fuzz is pretty much all one length over the body, with longer fine hairs wisping thru it. The proper cat coat that follows baby fuzz can have hairs of varying length, & one of the influencing factors on hair length is pigment.
So his agouti hairs, which have bands of color stacked the length of each hair [buff, grey, black, orange or red] may be shorter or longer than his black "stripe" hairs, or the light buff hairs on his tummy may be [i suspect are] longer than his dark "spot" hairs, thus covering the edges of markings & making them less clear.
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My POA, Pony of the Americas, mare was a red blanket Appaloosa pattern, & her red hairs were consistently longer than her white ones - so the red spots across her rump seemed to "bleed" toward her tail with the hair growth, as her red hairs projected past the spot over top of the short, glossy white hair of the base coat.
Her neck & shoulders were roan, & again the colored hair was longer than the white, making her look darker from a distance than up close, where the white glinted thru.
Her mane & tail were split, so she had both white & black hairs in her mane & tail - the dark hair tended to fall over to the left side of her neck, the white fell to the right. Since her spots were different on each side of her body, it would be easy to take a photo of her from each side & think U were looking at 2 different horses. I liked her unique mix of markings & color - she was a terrific buddy, but also a beautiful animal.
Pecas was a trip, LOL.
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hey, AA!
Ur boy's a marbled tabby, & very handsome, too.
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Part of the reason for blurring with age & growth is that different colors of hair can grow to different lengths -
kitten fuzz is pretty much all one length over the body, with longer fine hairs wisping thru it. The proper cat coat that follows baby fuzz can have hairs of varying length, & one of the influencing factors on hair length is pigment.
So his agouti hairs, which have bands of color stacked the length of each hair [buff, grey, black, orange or red] may be shorter or longer than his black "stripe" hairs, or the light buff hairs on his tummy may be [i suspect are] longer than his dark "spot" hairs, thus covering the edges of markings & making them less clear.
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I've always been under the impression he's "just" a Tabby, not a "type" of Tabby Marbled seem to have more swirls and stuff than him. His sides have a "ring" of lighter fur on each side, the rest of him is spots and stripes

In regards to him colour blurring, yeah I'd already read about that and why it happens. His fur is varying lengths, I can tell when I brush him! Lol.