Talk:Bengal cat

message: I noticed that someone posted a head-on picture of the Bengal Domestic Cat, but I was hoping a couple more pictures could be posted, preferably of the cat's side, where the leopard-like spots ought to be more noticeable. [Added representative photo; no longer an issue. Seduisant 16:00, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Markings 

message: I deleted that section because its not nesscesary for it, bengal cats don't live in the wild & the bengal cat was breeded to be a pet!! and the section went against what it said in the first 2 sections by saying that the bengal cat can't really interact with humans because of their agressivness.
Please sign your posts using four tildes (~).  Seduisant 18:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who keeps adding Bengals as pets? 

message: The Wikipedia [content policy] "What Wikipedia is not" seems to make clear that most of the links in this section don't belong in the article.  I don't dislike any of these links at all, and I'm not opposed to Bengal rescue or Bengal forums, either - they're just not encyclopedic content.  All this material can easily be located with a simple Google search.  Seduisant (talk) 21:23, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the link.  --Seduisant (talk) 03:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links Section 

message: The link provided for this does not appear to be working at present. Ought it to be removed? GibCat (talk) 00:27, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the link.  --Seduisant (talk) 03:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: The International Bengal Cat Society

message: Can someone create a nice looking image in the mold of this>[Image:http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/1885/93828337gz0.png]
for the artcle? And one for the savannah cat as well.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.21.155.112 (talk) 13:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: *Someone please explain what is "Indian Mau". This name has been used in the History section.
*I've read slavic-language sources that some Bengal lineages have Margay cats/Bristol hybrid in their pedigrees. Can anyone knowledgeable refer to that?78.131.137.50 (talk) 10:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is mention of both "Indian Maus" and the Bristol hybrid in this reference: http://www.bengalclassifieds.com/bengal-cat-education-history.htm
I am afraid to cite these things in the article since these claims seem vague and unsubstantiated. Personally, I think such information should be removed from the article since it is confusing and not well supported, but I am hoping to find some more reliable sources to clarify things. --Kpstewart (talk) 18:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Indian Mau", Margay cat, Bristol hybrid 

message: I just made quite a few changes. I did give this some thought, so please look carefully at the result before reverting anything. Snori (talk) 06:11, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Big edit

message: Defra is not an agency, it is the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, that is, a UK government department87.194.35.234 (talk) 18:24, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defra 

message: Since Bengal Cats were bred from a wild species of cat with the domestic tabby cat that is another species to make the Bengal breed it would be nice to breed other breeds this way and make hybrids of the Sand Cat and Geoffroy's cat and other species to make docile versions of this cat for pets. Bobcat and Lynx. I wonder what a hybird would look like? Domesticating animals is easy. All you have to do is treat your animals with love. Best to only mate the ones that are friendly. 108.81.134.236 (talk) 08:26, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hybrid Cat 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello All,
This is my first time ever on editing or participating in a discussion over a topic on Wikipedia.
One major concern over the Bengal cat is the origin. It seems that this cat might actually not have originated in America or through a cross between a wild cat and a domesticated cat.
The Bengal cat is actually a wild cat found in the state West Bengal in India. I am not a cat expert but I have actually seen this cat in the wild during my stay in West Bengal. The cat is originally a wild fishing cat and is also the state animal of the state (West Bengal). One can look the information up on google by looking for "wild cat in Bengal". It seems pretty obvious where the name has come from.
I really hope that the information about the origin of the cat can be modified/changed soon.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurshb (talk • contribs) 07:34, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you actually read the article?  The wild cat found in India (and further) is the Asian leopard cat, Prionailurus bengalensis.  The Bengal cat  was developed by cross-breeding those wild cats with the domestic ones, under controlled conditions and with a generation-by-generation pedigree; there is no doubt of any kind where the breed arose, when, and by whom.  PS: It is possible, maybe even likely, that there are feral cross-breed cats of the same general genetic mix running around in India, the result of (probably) male Asian leopard cats mating with female housecats in heat.  But we have no evidence of this, while we do have evidence against the idea that they had anything to do with the establishment of the standardized Bengal breed.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:13, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubt on the origin of Bengal Cat 

message: Already an uncited source but edited and merged into one paragrapgh. "Doctors Greg and Elizabeth Kent, who were crossing their Egyptian Maus to their Asian Leopard cat Baghara Kahn. While many breeders worked together to get the breed off the ground, it was Jean Mill who worked to get them accepted as a registered breed through TICA and began to show them around the world."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reyn1511 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greg and Elizabeth Kent 

message: Speaking of breeder bios.
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Seems like there is plenty notable to me.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:23, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Jean Mill]] up for [[WP:AFD]]

message: I have finally gotten around to removing all patently unreliable sources and all the claims that were cited only to them. Some of this material could be restored in some form at some point, e.g. on "glitter" and "clouded" coats, on average size, and on some details of breed-establishment history, but not with such terrible, self-published sources like breeders' promotional/sales sites, and random blog pages by "internet nobodies" who are neither notable nor demonstrably subject-matter experts. This kind of ruthless pruning needs to be done at many more cat and dog breed articles, too.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  10:35, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable junk removed