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People say, "That bengal has
type." So...what does TYPE mean?
If you could take the pattern
away from your bengal...would it still look like a cat that just stepped out of
the jungle or would it look like a domestic cat?
Photos of
Double Champion Adventure Beach Amazon.
The qualities that can give a
bengal it's wild look can include small round ears, fat leopard tail, large
nocturnal eyes, athletic body with flowing movement (that leopard cat walk!),
wild panther shaped head, substantial chin, puffy whisker pads, ...all of that and
more is TYPE.
So is there a perfect bengal
that has it all? No, but the more of each quality they have, the less domestic
they look. The bengals we will be looking at on this page are SBTs (at least
four generations from an Asian leopard cat).
Let's look at some of these
qualities of TYPE...what do we want to see?
EARS...what
should they look like?
First of all, the smaller the
better...
...and the rounder the better.
SOME
OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES:
Look at the tiny
round ears on our girl Clouded
Spirit.
Look at the tiny
round ears on our boy Painted
Spirit...
...and his son
Paint The Town
(at 5 months old he is still growing into his ears!).
Vot also has very small
round ears...
and so does
Kal-El!
Large or pointed /triangular ears are
qualities common in domestic cats. They take away from the wild look of a bengal's head.
 
Small round ears help give bengals
a non-domestic look. 
Adventure Beach Spirit
Quest has wonderful small round ears and thick tail.
Most wild cats have small round ears (tigers, leopards,
snow leopards,
lions, cheetahs, Asian leopard cats...). Ears like this give bengal kittens a
wonderful cub-like appearance and adult bengals a much wilder look.
 
 
 
 
Many people say that their bengals
have small rounded ears, when in fact they have ears that look no different than
many housecats. If we are trying to model our bengals on the Asian leopard cat
or other wild cats, then we should not be satisfied until that goal is
accomplished. Our personal goal is to always be moving closer with our bengals
to the wonderful ears found on
the wild cats of the world.
Photos of
Grand Champion
Adventure Beach Mountain Melody,
Double Champion
Adventure Beach Blithe Spirit and
Quadruple Grand Champion/Supreme Roll
of Honor Adventure Beach
Spirit Quest (right and below).
  
TAILS...what
should they look like?
Bengal tails should be as far away
from the thin "whippy" domestic cat tail as possible. The idea
tail is thick and leopard-like.
They should be
SOME
OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES:
Adventure Beach Wind Chill Factor,
a seal lynx snow Secret Weapon son at two weeks and at 6 months old.
Double Champion Adventure Beach Spirit Dancer, a Painted Spirit daughter at 5 months old.
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Spirit
Dancer son
Adventure Beach Designer Paint
at four months old.
Look at the wild looking tail on
Painted Secret
(right) and Quadruple Champion
Adventure Beach Cloudburst.
This is Ivan. His father Rambo was
2000 On Safari Breeder' Choice Best Bengal Tail and it has been passed
on.
Our boy Painted
Spirit winning a BEST CAT final at On Safari. In addition to being the
On Safari Best of the Congresses
Winner,
On Safari Breeder's Choice Best Adult
Male Bengal
and
Best Marble Bengal, he also
was awarded the
Breeder's Choice Best Bengal Tail
for his thick rosetted tail and
Breeder's Choice Best Bengal Ears for his
tiny, round ears.
This is
Painted Spirit's
son Paint The Town...Spirit
is passing on those wild looking ears and tails too.
This is
Painted Spirit's
son Quadruple Grand
Champion/Supreme Roll of Honor Adventure Beach
Spirit Quest
as a kitten... what a difference a thick tail makes in the overall
look of a bengal. His pattern is just starting to darken.
All in the family... look at the
thick, leopard-like tail on Clouded Spirit (as well as her tiny rounded ears
again). An outstanding bengal tail should be thick and muscular, carried low,
with a blunt, rounded, virtually black tip (even on snow bengals).
Why...because it gives them the
look we see in beautiful wild cats.
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