How's this for a beautiful kitten?

[Archae]

From what I understand, these kittens cost hundreds of $$$.

But what a GORGEOUS kitteh! :loveya:

[TZ]

1. Is that one of those new hybrid Bengals...

The ones crossed with wild cats? Sure is cute though.

[Archae]

2. Not sure...

Maybe.

[Mutley]

4. I think so.

A friend of mine has one that she paid $600 for, and that was apparently a bargain because she had "flaws" in her markings. :eyes:

[du_grad]

12. Perhaps it is an ocicat

http://tinyurl.com/4g3s2x - here's a Google image search for Ocicat

http://tinyurl.com/3jwq6v - here's a Google image search for Bengal cat.

She looks more like the Bengals.

We have a stray that we adopted three years ago. She has ocicat markings and a very flat nose. Your kittie pic doesn't have the same flat nose ours does, but the eyes are similar. She's very very cute indeed. Ours has a quirky personality, unlike any other cat we've ever had. She's quite a character.

[Archae]

3. Another cutie!

[stuntcat]

26. liddle white feetseses!!!

I LOVE liddle white feetses :loveya: :loveya:

[Mutley]

5. That is one gorgeous kitty.

:loveya:

Very beautiful, but I'll stick with the little shelter rejects. :D

[hamsterjill]

22. Amen!!!

I'll stick to the ones who need the homes. Our city euthanizes about 40,000 per year just because they don't have a place to go.

[applegrove]

6. Those eyes. I'm in love...

[elshiva]

7. What breed of cat is s/he?

Priceless. Those eyes are amazing. :loveya:

[LisaL]

8. I am pretty sure it's a bengal.

[elshiva]

9. Is that some kind of hybrid of a Bengal Tiger and a domestic

cat? How do they do it? Artifical insemination, I guess?

[LisaL]

10. Not a tiger.

It's developed from a hybrid of Asian Leopard Cat and a domestic cat. I think they just breed on their own.

[elshiva]

11. Okay. I heard something about Tigers and a new domestic

cat breed.

[XemaSab]

13. It might be an Abyssinian

CalPeggy was with me when I saw one at a pet store in Malibu.

I would have impulse-bought it, but it was $1100. :o

[Withywindle]

14. Beautiful!

Looks like there might be some ocelot or margay blood.

a margay:


SO pretty. But I can't justify paying big bucks for a kitteh, no matter how pretteh, when there are so many who need homes.

(Truth is, ALL kittens in the snuggle-loaf position induce similar warm squishies. :loveya:)

[Granny M]

15. Looks like a Bengal.

My friend has 2 bengal "children". They are very entertaining cats, full of personality, very vocal. They both love to play in the sink or tub when the water's running, and they fetch! Enjoy!

[Withywindle]

16. I'm gonna be a sap now (cause I'm in love, please indulge me).

$55 to Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago, (that includes shots, spaying, microchipping, and a big bag of Science Diet kibble), and one of the most beautiful kittehs I've ever seen came home with me.

[TZ]

17. Wow she looks ALOT like my old cat Turtle!

who passed in 2005 (RIP Turtle). Beautiful tortie...Does she talk alot? Turtle was a nonstop talker...

[Withywindle]

23. Awwww, Turtle.

:hug:

Madimi really doesn't talk all that much. When she does, she doesn't so much meow as chirp and trill. She snores, though.

She's a mischievous little imp.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I will totally indulge you.

What a beautiful baby.

[Withywindle]

24. Awww, thanks.

She knows it too. She's the queen around here.

[GCP]

19. Looks like a ocicat to me

Beautiful little thing!

[demnan]

20. That is a very cute kitten

but they all are, aren't they? My half-Abby Lily was a very beautiful kitten. I think they cross the Bengals with Abbys sometimes. She is still quite a personality. Pad Thai, my Siamese, who was being passed around at work so I adopted him, was not so beautiful when he was young as he didn't develop his points until about a year old. As you can see cat number 3 is an ordinary marmalade who walked in out of the woods, but he's extremely cute as well.

[Orsino]

21. At what age do they start to grow legs? n/t

[Marrah_G]

25. Ocicat? That's what it looks like after some poking around

http://www.cfainc.org/breeds/profiles/ocicat.html

"The Ocicat is an agouti spotted cat of moderate type. Originating from interbreeding of Abyssinian, Siamese and American Shorthair, it is the only spotted domestic breed selectively bred to emulate the cats of the wild."

Or a Bengal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_cat

"The Bengal is a relatively new hybrid breed of cat developed to have a gentle and friendly temperament, while exhibiting the "wild" markings (such as large spots, rosettes, and a light/white belly), and body structure reminiscent of the wild Asian Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).<1> In other words, a Bengal cat has a desirable "wild" appearance with a gentle domestic cat temperament, provided it is separated by at least three generations from the original crossing between a domestic and Asian Leopard Cat.<1>"



At first glance it looks like an ocelot. Some people have tried domesticating Ocelots and they don't make good pets.