Bengal Cat

Hey, in this picture, doesn't Asia have a striking resemblance to a face we all know so well, such as this little feller? ==>

Well, my Siamese passed away this morning, so I started shopping around for these Bengals. I found a breeder in Northern California, but the cats cost $750-850. That's a bit more than I want to spend on a cat. Doesn't look like I'll be getting one any time soon...

thomascanty wrote:
Well, my Siamese passed away this morning, so I started shopping around for these Bengals. I found a breeder in Northern California, but the cats cost $750-850. That's a bit more than I want to spend on a cat. Doesn't look like I'll be getting one any time soon...

Lonnie.

Sorry to hear about your cat. I seem to recall you saying he/she had been sick for a while. I hope he/she went peacefully.

Tom

Thanks. She had been in increasingly frail health for a couple years now, but I guess that's to be expected in a cat of that age. Except for old age, she didn't have anything obviously wrong with her. It looks like she died in her sleep. I found her at the foot of my bed this morning when I got up.

sorry to hear that Lonnie. you know, the smartest cat i had was a grey tabby. found it as a kitten. he could even fetch, so i called him spot.

my condolences,
eric

Sorry to hear about your Siamese, Lonnie.

Re the Bengal, maybe you can trade in one of your L lenses for it. Maybe one that you hardly use?

One of my other cats is a black/grey tabby. He's loaded with personality and is quite the practical joker (seriously). He's also enormous -- he weighs about 25 or 30 pounds. More than my dog! Sometimes I wonder if he's part bobcat.

PacAce wrote:
Re the Bengal, maybe you can trade in one of your L lenses for it. Maybe one that you hardly use?

Hmm... Well, the only L I think I could part with if I had to is the 70-200 f/4, and that wouldn't get me enough for a Bengal... I wonder if the breeder is willing to negotiate.

By the way, that price I mentioned was for "pet quality" Bengals. The breeder I contacted has three tiers of pricing: Pet, Breeder and Show quality cats. The show quality ones can go for as much as $2,500. These are NOT cheap cats!

Yes, I noticed the pricing tiers, too. I wonder if they're cheaper in Asia where they originated from?
BTW, do you supposed "pet quality" is a euphonism for "breeder rejects"?

PacAce wrote:
Yes, I noticed the pricing tiers, too. I wonder if they're cheaper in Asia where they originated from?
BTW, do you supposed "pet quality" is a euphonism for "breeder rejects"?

They might be cheaper in Asia, but I don't think it would be too cost effective for me to go there and find out...

And I'm sure that's exactly what the term "pet quality" means.

I wonder if we were looking at the same breeder for info. The one I found has a web site here: http://www.hdw-inc.com/ (note: there is annoying music on just about every page.)

i checked out the site. the cats are awesome, but the photos aren't. maybe you could make a deal with them.some appealing photos would surely sell more cats!

thomascanty, go to www.petfinder.com
on the left, under animal , select "cat"
then under it says breed "click for link"
then click cat, then hit bengal.
Type in your zip or city/state and that will bring up all the bengals in your area that need a new home!
Julie

Hey, now there's an idea! Maybe we could work some kind of deal out.

Thanks for that URL Jemmind. That site looks promising. I found a little Bengal/Tabby mix that I'm interested in. I sent email asking about it. We'll see what they say. I'm not too hopeful, though. Looking through some of the listings, I found quite a few that were way out of date (like "born on 3/22, available for adoption in June"). That doesn't give me much confidence that their database is all too current. The one I was interested in didn't mention any dates, so I don't know if it's another old one or something more recent. I'll just have to wait until I hear back from them.

Wow. 2nd one is cool I think you should get some more pics, she seems to be an interesting model

I just got Adobe 6.0. Actually I've had it for awhile. I just bought 6.0 for dummies I should have got the for complete imbeciles version. It's not exactly intuitive software. Anyways, I was able to figure out how to resize the jpeg with it and keep it under 100k still. So, here is a larger version of the same image. I also just got a Pro1. I can't wait to visit my buddy again so I can take more shots of Asia with the Pro1. This one was taken with my trusty G1. BTW his wife said she paid $800.00 for her almost 10 years ago.

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