Our proven queens:
Ashanti Volcania
Mountainpark Strider x Ashanti Tanzania
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Volcania started life in France, in the home of our friend Wendy of Ashanti Bengals. Volcania was a small and a bit drab kitten, though of course already with a specacular pattern. Being low in contrast, Wendy was not particularly pleased with her, and as I had first pick of her two Mountainpark Strider litters in return for the two studservices, I was happy to choose her for the big rosettes and her wild head. I hoped the contrast would still come in, but was happy to have her anyway, because I wanted those rosettes combined with a light groundcolour and a wild head.
By the time the kittens arrived at our place through the help of Tanya of Boomkatz cattery in Kerkrade, Volcania’s contrast had come in in a spectacular way and she now is very well-contrasted, with a light yellow background (my favourite colour), big arrowshaped rosettes with black outlining, and a rather wild head. Her tummy is lighter though not white. She has a few verticals and some diagonal markings, but the majority of her body is rosetted. She has already had one super litter with Cheetahsden Gryphon, who has similar rosettes in a stripeless pattern and with a clear glittered background. Mos tof the four kittens have a wild looking head, and the patterns are still a bit vertical, but all rosetted and quite an improvement on their mother's. We are repeating the breeding before Gryphon leaves for Annette's.
Lopend Vuur Shiver
Hyalite TouchofFrost x Lopend Vuur Impulse
As kitten Shiver was pretty small and thin, and she still is. We kept her because of her immensely long body that reminds us of the wild, and her lovely flowing pattern of black spots. Shiver has quite a wild looking head though her expression is friendly, and her ears are rather small. So far she has only one surviving kitten, being brought up by Florijn. But we hope to have her bred once more by Gryphon before he leaves. Her snow daughter Tinkerbell is also wild looking and flowingly spotted, but being a snow it is difficult to say much more about her at her current age.
Our next generation, as yet unproven:
Alfajiri Uzuri Udibaji
Alfajiri Ofisiboi kwa Mitu x Alfajiri Kiipenzi Kamilya
Zuri is a big favour of her breeder, Mia Salmi from Finland, to us. We have helped Mia build up her breeding program, and in return she has given us this beautifully rosetted stunner, the first daughter of Mia's gorgeous Kamilya.
Zuri has a yellow background, densely covered in medium to large round leopard type rosettes. Her pattern is nearly totally flowing, and the rosettes are very regular in size and shape. Zuri seems quite dark due to the blackness of her rosettes and the closeness with which they are set together, but in fact she is still lightening up as her background comes out more and more with the growth of her body. Zuri's body type is very wild, long and strong with a fat tail carried low. Her head has some wild features and some less wild ones, but for a glittered Bengal, the total impression wild wild looking.
We are looking forward to the time that Zuri will be old enough to have her first litter, and we think that Volcania's son Krakatoa may be just the boy for her, with his wild look and light colour, and her perfect pattern.
Iffnes Felice
Cheetahsden Gryphon x Iffnes Zahra
Felice is special since birth. Her pattern was very broad and three coloured from the start. At first, Felice's breeder wanted to keep her for herself, but being a young and very playful and sometimes demanding little creature, Ilona of Ifness Bengals in Holland decided Felice would be better off living with a lot of other young and enterprising Bengals. Which we believe is true, she is truly enjoying herself with Volcania's two kittens, and even our house sometimes seems too small for her energy!
Felice has a very long body, a very soft silky coat with glitter and a lot of rufism. Th epattern is horizontal, very broad and very colourful. All the dark bits have lighter centres, and dark spots again in those centres. she has a very small head compared to her body, with small ears and a lovely firm chin. We do not yet have a male in mind for Felice, but we're very sure one will turn up before she's old enough to be bred for the first time. We may even consider a gorgeous marble, if we can find a wild looking one with a suitable pattern, preferably one broken up into spot like markings.
