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Hey :)
I'm looking into this for a friend, and this is not my cat and I admit, hands up, I know near to nothing about cats :p
So anyway, my friend rescued this cat, and always just settled on the idea it was a crossbreed. She came accross a picture of a Leopard Burmese recently and thought Jeffrey here looked exactly like one. I've attatched a picture, Any help would be appreciated. Her husband just rekons it's a crossbred moggy. Who's right? Don't worry I won't be crushed if he isn't leopard burmese :lol: wish me luck breaking it to my friend though haha!
 

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He doesn't look like any one specific breed of cat I can think of....However I would say he definitely looks like a bengal cross. :)

I've never even heard of a 'Leopard Burmese', so not quite sure what you friend means there... but maybe she meant bengal?
 
Curiosity101 said:
He doesn't look like any one specific breed of cat I can think of....However I would say he definitely looks like a bengal cross. :)

I've never even heard of a 'Leopard Burmese', so not quite sure what you friend means there... but maybe she meant bengal?
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Wow that was unexpected haha. I've heard Bengals can be very expensive but he's definitely a cross then? My friend wants to know whether there's a chance of someone trying to steal him! :lol:
thanks for that, though :) Bengal's are beautiful

Bazza57 said:
If it's got no tail it's probably a Manx cat. :hey: Don't ask me which L number though :lol:
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Oh sorry haha it does have a tail as decieving as the photo may be :)
 
fishing for info said:
Curiosity101 said:
He doesn't look like any one specific breed of cat I can think of....However I would say he definitely looks like a bengal cross. :)

I've never even heard of a 'Leopard Burmese', so not quite sure what you friend means there... but maybe she meant bengal?
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Wow that was unexpected haha. I've heard Bengals can be very expensive but he's definitely a cross then? My friend wants to know whether there's a chance of someone trying to steal him! :lol:
thanks for that, though :) Bengal's are beautiful

Bazza57 said:
If it's got no tail it's probably a Manx cat. :hey: Don't ask me which L number though :lol:
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Oh sorry haha it does have a tail as decieving as the photo may be :)
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Here's another photo if the first one is hard to identify :rolleyes:
 

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Yup, looks like a Bengal, lovely creatures :wub: I have a friend who has two, from different breeders and they look very different from one another although have many similarities.
 
Sorry, my bad -Ain't no expert on cats (as you've probably guessed) but it does have the colouration & markings of a Bengal cat. The Burmese type seem to be a solid colour with hardly any markings as far as I can tell.
 
Definitley looks like there Bengal in there somewhere, mixed in with a fair amount of Tabby Moggy.

I used to have a purebred Bengal, and he was such a noisy old thing! Always climbing things too.
 
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If it's got no tail it's probably a Manx cat. :hey: Don't ask me which L number though :lol:
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lol, you might be surprised to know, all cats carry the gene that causes the "Manx" syndrome. tailless cats are not that unusual. though its clear that, "Manx" cats, come from a family line that suffers more than others.

i must admit i would have placed the OP's cat as a "moggy".

my cat "Sox" or Woof". is a spotted tabby. though the colours are more like a "common" tabby. lol, I've seen her mum and dad. there is no doubt she is a Moggy.
 
So, to conclude, he's probably a mix of bengal and Moggy? :fun:
Thanks everyone for your help! :nod:
 
fishing for info said:
So, to conclude, he's probably a mix of bengal and Moggy? :fun:
Thanks everyone for your help! :nod:
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i guess the only way to find out is, do a dna blood test. but, is it really that important? the addition of a little, moggy, can only benefit the inter bred, "pedigree" cat.
 
There are a couple of other ways - does the cat have tummyy spots and glitter on the end of each hair shaft? Not all Bengals have these, but if it does have the glitter, its a bengal, as Bengals are the only cats to have this type of colour at the end of each hair shaft

Seffie x
 
These are my friends Bengals :good:

So, I believe now, the cat in question is part Bengal?? :lol:
 

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I have three - two snows and one brown spot :good: your friends are gorgeous

Seffie x
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He does have spots on his belly. I think he also has the glittery fur thing, or at least this photo seems to suggest so :lol:
 

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