Thread for Bengal owners.

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Tales of destruction welcome. No judging if your cat understands the phrase "Shut the fuck up, Please just be quiet!"

He's having a wee on the way back from a good Friday nite

ASBO straight out the door again.

Trying to pack boxes, this one has other ideas!

I have a Bengal and a Maine Coon - they are soooo different but great friends. The Bengal (Chui) rules the roost even though he is much younger - both kittens.

Any tips on feeding a Bengal? Chui is soooo fussy - will lick gravy off Schesir chicken food (won't eat the chicken bits) and eats Maine Coon dry food - that's it other than a bit of chicken when I cook it (or raw). Nothing else - no other cat food and have tried loads of high meat content, raw food diet with taurine - nope, no fish, nothing

Here's our lovely rescue girl. Bengal-x?

She's got the Bengal ears!.

Phwooooar: no advice, just be happy you found food that yours will eat.

Present bengal eats no treats (besides wet tuna or chicken), dry food needs to be whole and in her bowl. Any broken piece or placed anywhere else is considered contaminated. We consider her very reasonable.

I still remember the panic we felt when they changed the smell of previous bengal's food. She only ate a specific flavor of a specific brand. Anything else (besides tuna and chicken) was pure poison.

I just remembered a tip someone gave me but I never got around trying. You mix the new food with the old one. One quarter new for the first week and change the ratio over 4 weeks.

The old Bengal who runs my street has tricked every neighbour into feeding him Dreamies before he lets them enter their house. Individually. Everyone thought they were the only ones doing it, until a chance conversation in the street.
The cat is literally running a protection racket.

I have a 2 yr old male. I got him 5 days after moving into my new house filled with new furniture. In short order he destroyed the sofas, carpet and blinds. More recently he's destroyed my dining chairs because apparently having 3 scratching posts just isn't sufficient.

Since early on I've let him out in the garden as it's a new build so totally enclosed by 6ft wall/fence. It's taken him until this week to realise he can climb out so I have spent today building a cat proof extension comprised of wire netting extending half a metre into the garden along the entire length of fencing. So far it's worked!

I love him dearly but when he went missing for 12 days in the summer (escaped out the front) I was only slightly sad.

So not sad that you're cat proofing the garden to keep him in?

Ours is banned from the lounge. Crimes against Duresta. Occasionally Dh slips up and I find him curled up on the footstool.

She bites our ankles if we really annoy her. Follows us across the room, nipping .
But mostly she is hugely affectionate. When we first brought her home from the shelter we prepared a quiet room for her to settle in away from the noise of family life. She stepped out of the carrier, marched straight into the living room, joined me and the kids on the sofa, sat on my chest, put her front paws either side of my neck, and applied gentle pressure with her claws whenever my attention slipped away from her. She's pretty much stayed there ever since....

I've cat proofed the garden because my neighbour came round expecting me to pick up poo in his garden. (And because he's my baby).

Mine also bites ankles, mostly my DP's which I find endlessly amusing.

Shamelessly addicted to the tales told with delighted indignation on this thread. Where pic of Public Enemy no 1 Fluffy?

He doesn't deserve any photos. He tried to bite me and sprayed on the wall.

To punish him Dh bought him a new catnip mouse and I bought chew sticks.

Mr C sends Respect. He says Aldi poultry chewsticks are toothsome and such good value. Especially at 4am with a tang of sharply-awoken spinster blood to wash them down with.

OK so I have to post a pic of madam. Fitting herself in a tissue box. Sleeping pretending to be cute.

sassh you mean to say she's not always the sweetest most innocentest little kitty in the world?

Ilove

Sh is the sweetest, cutest little monster.

SageMist Your cat and mine have exactly the same nose.

And she does an ankle pounce every so often.

We adopted two three year olds a year and a half ago, sadly one died soon afterwards from complications due to being in a dodgy multi-cat environment but the other is the most characterful cat ever. I feel quite lucky because she's not destructive or overly loud, just very affectionate, nosy and lots of fun. We have builders in at the moment and she won't leave them alone, I keep finding her perched next to them keeping an eye on things. We would like to get a little friend for her if we can find the right one - does anyone have an opinion on whether it's better to get another bengal or a normal cat to partner an existing bengal?

Your poor boy garden, is he recovering?.

I know what you mean, the only thing worse than them being little shit bags is them not being little shit bags.