The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1957

Having shrunk to two inches tall, Grant Williams moved into the dollhouse where he was hunted by the family cat, his worst enemy aside from a six- inch Panamanian spider.

Morris and Orangey, 1952 - 1978

The busiest cats in Hollywood history were Orangey and Morris. They were both short-haired orange tigers, well-fed, fluffy an photogenic. Orangey's career lasted from 1952 to 1963. Morris made his television debut in 1969 and died in 1978.

Orangey played the title role in Paramount's Rhubard (1952), about a cat who inherits a fortune and buys the Brooklyn Dodgers. He also played the role as "Cat" in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn. He also appeared in Gigot with Jackie Gleason and was a regular on "Our Miss Brooks" TV series starring Eve Arden.

Bell, Book and Candle, 1958

A feline-eyed Kim Novak held Pyewacket the Siamese as she brewed up a witch's plot to win James Stewart's love. The cat won a Patsy Award for his performance.

The Black Cat,1934

Bela Lugosi co-starred with Boris Karloff for the first time in this loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story of a cat returning from the deat to hunt it6s master.

As a guardian, protector and friend of an adopted cat, you need to accept and understand your cat's needs. You must accept the responsibility of teaching your cat and realize that the majority of behavior problems are either medically related or the result of your own ineptness! We inadvertently teach a cat bad behavior. Why does a cat sit at the refrigerator and cry? She has learned that behavior because she is reinforced with food after the refrigerator is opened. Food is a good reinforcer of behavior.

The new way to think about cats is to eliminate all forms of punishment. Punishment in the form of hitting, screaming, or chasing increase a cat's stress and will likely result in more misbehavior. Punishment after an act has occurred has no meaning to a cat. For example, greeting a cat upon entering the house by rubbing her nose in the mess we have just found teaches her to associate this punishment with our return rather than with the mess. Maybe this is why cats appear independent and aloof. They are afraid of what a human is capable of doing to them!

There is still such concern among pet lovers about the food they feed their pets. I could, but will not, share with you some pretty sad stuff that has been passed along to me.

Well, I have been giving some thought as to how we may be able to help and have come up with an idea.

If you do not use Life's Abundance and would like to have a FREE sample of the dry and wet food, just send me an email and ask. I will have the sample sent to you and you will owe nothing.

I only ask that you give it a try and consider using it. I look forward to hearing from you.

First, we should make a distinction between color and pattern. Bengal cats come in two different patterns: spotted (leopard) or marbled. The following discussion will deal with color. For information on the patterns click here.

Bengal cats come in three different background (ground) colors:

• a shade of brown (or black),
• snow which is a shade of cream (or white),
• and silver.

  Snow Bengals come in three distinct colors and each may be spotted or marble:
  

  • Seal Sepia Pattern color is a shade of seal sepia on an ivory, cream, or light tan background color. Paw pads are brown, tail tip must be dark seal brown. Eyes are gold to green, the more richness and depth of color the better.
  • Mink Pattern color is a shade of seal mink on an ivory, cream, or light tan background color. Paw pads are brown, tail tip must be dark seal brown. Eyes are aqua (blue-green) to green.
  • Seal Lynx The blue eyed Bengal. Pattern color is dark seal brown, light brown, or tan on an ivory to cream background color.

  The Snow Bengal can be either spotted or marbled, but instead of the warm colorful base coat, they have varying shades of cream, ivory or light tan as seen in the Siamese, Burmese or Tonkinese. The ground color is creamy white, not pure white, with the contrasting pattern color ranging from pewter to a rich nutmeg color. The pattern color is much more subtle than the brown Bengal, with dark markings of equal intensity all over the cat. The pattern may be sharply defined patches of color; reminiscent of a stained glass windows, or flowing, twisting streams of clear color.

  Seal Lynx Point - Shows a very light background color ranging from ivory to cream with the pattern varying in color from dark seal brown, dark grey, light brown, tan or buff. There should be little difference between the color of body markings and color of ears, legs and tails. The tail tip must be dark seal brown and these cats have beautiful blue eyes. They are also known as the Blue Eyed Snow among breeders and as the "snow leopard Bengal" by many Seal Lynx Point Bengal fans.

  Seal Lynx Point kittens are generally born nearly white, ivory or cream, without (or with barely visible) spotted, rosetted, or marbled patterns. Within a few weeks, color develops on the ears, legs, and tail. Their pattern develops over time, with full color usually complete by 12 to 18 months. Eye color will always be blue. The background color will be off white to ivory; markings can range from a light grayish-brown to nearly black, the more contrast the better. It is believed that one of the early cats carried the lynx point gene because the color started turning up in the early breeding.

  Seal Mink/Seal Sepia Tabby. These two colors are hard to distinguish at times and are similar in looks but not in genetics. Minks and sepias have the ivory background and tend to have much better contrast and much darker markings then lynx points and they have aqua to green eyes or gold eyes). In order for a Bengal to be a mink it MUST have at least one Burmese ancestor. In order for a Bengal to be a sepia it MUST have at least two Burmese ancestors, one from each of its parents.

  Seal Sepia Tabby - The Seal Sepia background color can range from ivory to very light tan; markings are dark seal brown. The pattern may be very dark bitter chocolate and there should be very little or no difference between the color of body markings and point color. The color of their pattern and markings will darken with maturity, usually becoming a rich dark seal brown, or almost black. The tail tip should be bitter chocolate color (dark seal sepia) and eye color should be gold or bronze, but may also be light green or green-gold.

  Seal Mink Tabby The seal mink color is a combination of one each of the pointed Siamese and the Burmese sepia genes. Their spotted, rosetted, or marbled patterns of warm brown are displayed on an ivory or cream background color. The tail tip should be chocolate color (dark mink) and these cats have blue-green or aqua colored eyes.