Bengal cats

So why Bengals? What are they? Why do they cost so much? Why are they the "Rolls Royce" of cats?

Bengal facts - sort of

The Cat's Trapeze

Whilst shopping for the Lui Cat Scratcher at Supercat (a Swedish cat store since we do not have amazon here ) something called the cat's trapeze caught my eye. It looks totally different, the more I look at it, the more I like it! So, in the spur of the moment I added a three level the cat's trapeze in natural colour (jute) to the cart, a bit more brown than the picture.

Demo of the Cat's Trapeze, not our kittens

Lui Cat Scratcher

Let's get a few things straight, we do not like the looks and (lack of) design of a lot of the cat furniture out there. Each to their own taste. In our eyes the cat furniture business seem to have gotten stuck in this old design kitty tree with beige or paw printed fun fur. Maybe this is because their clients think that this is how a cat tree "should" look like and thus demand it? Maybe the manufactures want nothing more than to throw out all their bolts of fun fur and start to experiment? Who knows...
There are a few companies that does modern feline furniture but whilst they are usually very appealing to the eye those can cost an arm, a leg and probably your firstborn. Does modern cat furniture have to automatically be a luxury item?

Lui Cat Scratcher

How to pick a kitten?

So we chose a breed, we chose a breeder and now all we had to do was to pick a kitten! Firstly we decided rather quickly that we wanted two kittens from the same litter. Since we want to have social cats they will need company when we are away at work, that was our line of thought at least.

Our two kittens, Skadi and Styx at 4.5 weeks old

How to pick a breeder?

When we finally decided to go for Bengal kittens the next thing was to find a breeder. I can not stress enough how important it is to find a good, knowledgeable and ethical breeder.

Also it is important to get along with the breeder since he or she have a good understanding about the breed and can answer questions that you might have. They should also have plenty of information about the kitten you are interested in. What it's are like, what it eat, what the parents are like, etc. Since Bengals are quite expensive and desirable it also means breeding these cats attracts some people that are just in it for quick profit and with little or no care for the cats.

How to pick a breed?

To pick which breed of cat we should get was not as easy as it might seem, at least not for us. There are many, very beautiful, interesting and social cats that would fit into our lives.

I think it is easy to pick a breed just because you like the look of it, but that is not a correct way of going about it.

Skadi and Styx

Our Bengal blog

This blog is going to be about our pair of Bengal kittens. I say going to be because, at the time of writing, they haven't yet arrived.

The breeder rules here mean that we can't have them until they're at least 12 weeks old, but we've visited them a couple of times and the breeder has been fantastic at keeping us updated!

Mmm, *chew chew chew* Styx in action!