Bengal Spirit

07/12/2023

The tree is not fluffed yet and we already have company!! Thank goodness for 500 zip ties, now let’s see if the tree stays upright! 🤪🤣

14/05/2023

We had a home fire this week which took the life of our sweet little Matsui Tattori Gin. He was the sweetest little Asian Leopard. I have thousands of photos of his innocence and silliness. He didn’t know a stranger, was fearless, and loved to snuggle and give kisses till your skin hurt.

We suffered other great losses as well:
*BengalSpirit Blueberry was our only keeper from our foundation five start up cattery. Our goal was to fill a diverse pedigree and we were on generation 4.
*MaiTai was the wildest type SBT I have ever seen. She trumped most early generations with her size, structure and beauty. She was my favorite SBT in personality as well.
*Our Early Generation Savannah program is all gone along with their kittens.

All were found, it was a sad and quiet day reflecting on the good moments with each soul lost.

The cattery buildings were touched by the heat and the siding is melted off their faces but the cats inside were all safe and sound. It would of been tragic to have lost them all, but we were lucky in this one aspect.

Our current situation is: The garage & our home is gone. We had a 4 car which our commercial freezer, 1000 pounds of food, all our commercial grinding equipment, cattery supplies and etc were all inside. We would need to completely rebuild if we decided to do so. The cattery buildings have no power to them which makes them unsafe for our animals as we keep a climate controlled environment. With the loss of my heart cat, our foundation program along with the SV program I am needing to breathe and take a pause from breeding. My heart is shattered, my head is spinning, and these beautiful souls are used to more attention than I can provide until further notice.

We have reached out to close friends and moved all our Asian Leopard Cats to Cj Rozelle Epperson , along with our Early Generation program. F1 Lagertha resides with Dasynda Rosenbarger Mosier to continue her Early Generation program.

All the kittens and their queens are safe in Michigan. I was worried one queen would deliver enroute, but she managed to hold them.

We currently have a few studs and queens to move and have reached out to a handful of good friends who may be interested. Please PM if you’d like more information and be included in the process.

Thank you families and friends for the great opportunity to work with you. Let’s keep in touch and please keep sharing your lives and our babies’ photos as they make me smile everytime I seem them.

I will follow this post with the breeding program I have kept secret because I wanted to disclose as this year progressed. 2023 was supposed to be an amazing year for Bengal Spirit, however it will be an amazing year in other ways. 🫶🏻

03/05/2023

Asian Leopard Cat Tequilla Ley and her SBT boyfriend Boch Waters pairing for F1 Bengals who are structurally sound, extreme health & massive genetic diversity with huge heterozygosity scores working to domestic as a long term goal! 💪🏼

More to come, we have lots of time and just getting started. 😊

02/05/2023

Matsui Tattori Gin has slept with us longer than any other Asian Leopard kitten. He brings me toys all night to see if I am ready to play. Then, when the sun starts to peak he kisses my lips, cheeks, nose, eyes and places soft paws on my neck to snuggle. 🤎 We play with the handful of toys which are surrounding my pillow while I drink coffee and after a bit he drifts off for a morning nap.

27/04/2023

Sunbathing siblings! 🤎🤎
Parents: Windy X Henry Clay
DOB: March 6th
Boy Release Date: June 9th
Girl Release Date: June 16th

12/04/2023

Babies leaving this weekend!
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06/04/2023

How to tame a wild kitten 101: Share your breakfast! 😆🤎

06/04/2023

New website is finally launched!!

About a year ago our platform changed and I had to learn new design editing software and it’s taken this long to bring it all together. Anytime I woke up early, I did my best learning in the drivers seat until the day was ready for me. There’s some missing information on the parents and exotics pages and the new Gallery needs some love but all the templates and formatting is complete. Now it’s just cut and paste and please for the love of all sanity I pray they never change the editing software again!! 🙏🏻

TICA registered cattery maintaining the exotic looking Bengal cats & kittens with a prestigious bloodline & complete health confirmation.

05/04/2023

A’Vida White Russian and HL Painted Johnny Private has one Silver Mink boy looking for his furever family.

PM Mikey Parrish for more details. 😊