Im looking for information on a certain type of cat, but I have no idea what the breed name of it was.

They were a sort of cream colour with slightly ginger/siamese coloured spots more on the back end of the cat.. that's all I can remember!.

I saw them in person when picking some reptiles up but the owner wasn't there, and the person I spoke to said they cost £400 for the pair, and they were a cross between a wild cat breed of some sort, and the domestic cat but that's all they knew..

I looked at a few cat breed listing websites and couldn't see anything similar. They were very friendly, inquisitive and active..

Anyone have any ideas or am I being too vague?

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I can think of the Bengals, Toygers and the Ocicats.......
My bengalX BSH is quite gingery but has fantastic leopard spots on his back he was £200.any help?

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Penny

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I thought bengal but the spots were only on the back end and the front was clean, and there were no markings on the face, or perhaps faint siamese coloured marking, but definitely not oriental shape.

My mother saw them and hasn't stopped talking about it since and has been trying to find a breeder... I'm not a big cat person myself

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Have a look at Breeders on line
They list the breeds with a picture next to the list.....just had a look.......it could just be a cross so It's not as spotty as a pure bred?

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Athravan, could it have been a snow bengal?

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Yeah.. that looks very similar actually.

Now to do some research I suppose

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Bengals are the only hybrid cat that is really very common in the UK (it was the third most common breed of cat registered here last year).

Toygers and Serengetis are new breeds that involve crosses to Bengals, and as such do have some wild blood, but neither are very common in the UK. There are also a few other minority mainly US breeds that involve crosses to other species but none have really taken off in the UK at all.

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It could be a Snow Bengal because they used Siamese in the breeding programme for the snows and like Siamese they are born white and the colour comes in slowly - so it depends on how old the cats were when you saw them. However, I honestly don't think it was a bengal because the colour would come in faintly and gradually but all over, not just on the hind end.

Also £400 for a pair is cheap for a pedigree cat and especially a Bengal as they hold their price well.

There are other breeds which come from wild cat matings to domestic.

There are Chausies which are bred from the Jungle Cat, Savannahs which are bred from the African Serval and Safari cats which are bred from Geoffrey's cats, but I haven't seen any of those that fits your description. Ocicats are purely domestic bred from a mating between a Siamese and an Abyssinian and they are born with their spots, so it's not one of those. Bengals are behind Toygers and Serengetis, so again it could be one of those, but as I say the newer and experimental breeds would cost a lot more than £400 a pair.

I'll ask around though and see if I can find anything out.

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Whilst looking at bengal breeders I found one breeder who was selling

1/2 Bengal, 1/2 Desert Lynx

He had 2 colours - brown spotted, and mink spotted...

The mink spotted is very very similar to the ones we saw..

Does anyone know about the lynx hybrid? He described the desert lynx as being a "wild lynx hybrid new to the UK" and then he crossed a desert lynx with a snow bengal... and selling them for £200 each so sounds about right.

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Desert lynx (bobcat hybrids) are only bred by maybe a couple of people in the UK, they're not a recognised breed over here. I wouldn't expect you'd get one for less than about £800 with them being so rare and having such novelty value as a hybrid. Why anyone would breed them to Bengals, I have no idea - surely if the desert lynx is bred to resemble a bobcat, then the last thing you want to add in is another breed with ALC blood, bred to resemble an ALC? It sounds dodgy enough to me.

Bengals also come in "mink" colouration, you would probably be able to find a reputable Bengal breeder who has that colour. Or you could get a Somali ... I don't understand why people buy other breeds of cat when they could just buy a Somali instead

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