Cat With Marbled Fur

Foothill felines cosmo at 5 months photo by owner sharon rogers.

Cat with marbled fur.

Regular tabby cats can have these characteristics too. The ground colour of its long fur varies from brownish grey to ochreous brown above and greyish to buff below. Since there are no naturally occurring marbled asian leopard cats the marble gene had to have come from some or one of the domestic cats originally used in the early days of envisioning and creating the bengal breed. And quite a few marbled breeds like the marbled manx cats the marbled british shorthairs and marbled oriental and asian tabbies.

It is patterned with black stripes on the short and round head on the neck and back. We ll begin by saying that just because a cat has spots or marbling in its fur this doesn t automatically mean it s a bengal. There are many cats who have this who aren t bengals. And quite a few marbled breeds like the marbled manx cats the marbled british shorthairs and marbled oriental and asian tabbies.

There are also many spotted domestic cats that show these ocicats egyptian maus and brown spotted manx to name just a few. Community member back in 1997 a man named david bought a black cat not knowing that one day it will get a marble patterned fur. That s why pictures can t really be relied on to identify a. Regular tabby cats can have spotty or marbled fur too here s our very own robbie cat showing off his spots.