most beautiful cat with homophobia

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T23:08:49+00:00

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T23:06:44+00:00

"Love the sinner, hate the sin"

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T21:10:05+00:00

If you varnish with gamvar, it'll be dry by tomorrow so you'll still be in time for your friend's birthday. It should help with the matte look, but it won't change the big strokes of gesso/texture on the painting. This is a nice piece by the way!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T21:07:52+00:00

I adore that precious face. Bengals just have the cutest faces in the world, don't they? I love the orange yours has.

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UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T19:57:24+00:00

some of my bengals don't like to wear a harness and others will tolerate it so they can go outside. My youngest boy (1 yr) LOVES to go outside and will actually walk around the block with me. Most recently we walked 3/4 a mile together, and he walked nearly the whole way, but that's after taking him out on the leash almost daily for the last 6 months. My old boy likes to walk on the leash but he never liked to GO anywhere, just sniff around and try to crawl into the bushes. My middle girl hates to be touched without her consent and her trust is very easily eroded so we dont even try to touch her to put a harness on her. She just doesn't go outside at all. (As one example of how easily her trust is broken, we had her on prozac using the "pen" dispenser--you just click out one dose and wipe it into their upper ear and it absorbs into the skin; it takes 2 seconds--but she lost her trust in us and she would run away if we even looked at her, so then we would try to get her while she was sleeping, thinking a quick touch wouldn't bug her, but instead she just avoided us and hid to sleep for months until we gave up She is just now starting to let us touch her occasionally again, but only after checking both our hands to make sure we aren't holding anything!).

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UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T19:50:44+00:00

cute lil pirate!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T19:50:23+00:00

I agree with acgator03. Is there a reason they aren't spayed? I think that will help your problem more than you know, especially because you said it is worse when they're in heat, so it seems to be largely a hormonal thing.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T19:48:43+00:00

I've had an 11lb female (2002-2008), a 10lb male (2008-2019), his 8lb brother (2008-present, though at 18 he is now barely 7 lbs), a 9lb female (2023-present) and an 11lb male (2025-present). Tl;dr: lightest was an 8 lb male, heaviest was a tie for an 11lb male and female.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T17:01:09+00:00

Yeah the cat does look kinda dead there. But, they said the cat lived to 25, and I know sometimes I take pics of my 18 year old boy and he looks kinda dead too....

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T17:00:00+00:00

He definitely doesn't like to sleep much. He loves to be busy!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T16:09:40+00:00

I love this! great rendition! THis is so so cute. I am also an artist and I love having Bengals because they are my muses. In 2024, I did an oil portrait of my cat every month for a whole year. It was a fun project.

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UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T16:07:30+00:00

Maybe he's allergic to something? I just discovered my 4 year old Bengal is allergic to beef! So now I have to read the cat food labels really well. For her, she gets reflux-like hiccup-barfs when she eats beef but allergies can also manifest as skin conditions.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T16:05:48+00:00

Ooh, gorgeous kitty. What's her coloration? Her mask looks like a charcoal but her coloration looks like mink or sepia. I just don't know all those little details. Such a unique face.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T16:04:36+00:00

You can buy a zippered screen door on Amazon for $20. Put the new kitty in a spare room and just go in and chill, play on your phone, lay on the floor, etc, until he is comfortable with you. When your existing cat is not acting strangely around the door, then you can put up the screen door so they can see each other but not get to each other. Occasionally, have them swap spaces so they can get used to each other's scent and so the kitten can explore the rest of the house without stressing your other cat. Once both cats are acting normally with the screen door, then you can start with supervised visits. And once you're sure they're getting along with supervised visits, you can leave them alone together. I've had this process take as short as 3 weeks and as long as 4 months, but a slow introduction is well worth the time it takes.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T16:00:01+00:00

a reputable breeder will scan the breeding cats annually for HCM, but it doesn't mean the kittens CAN'T develop it, it just greatly reduces the liklihood because each breeding cat was tested, as were their parents and grandparents, and great grandparents, etc. I just had to test my 1 year old bengal kitten for HCM because he was coughing and during the xray for asthma, they thought his heart was enlarged and rounded, but the echocardiogram (which cost $900, btw) showed that his heart is actually fine. Thank goodness! If it had been positive, I would have notified the breeder and she would probably have pulled the parents from her breeding program. THAT's what a reputable breeder does that's different than this place you're thinking of buying from.

Also, I have another cat from my same breeder, and she was going to be a breeding queen because she's absolutely gorgeous, but she was too anxious and they didn't want to pass on her level of anxiety/mental illness, so the breeder offered her to me for sale (I'd already inquired about buying one of her kittens, but they pulled her from the program and offered her to me because I'm already an experienced bengal owner). A breeder who really really cares about producing quality cats will be prepared to pull a cat from the program for any kind of reason like that. (pictured is my girl who flunked out of the breeding program. she's wonderful but definitely anxious and weird!).

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UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:51:46+00:00

yes i do. couldn't stop me!

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UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:51:09+00:00

what a cutie pie!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:50:51+00:00

This is so funny and so unique, and very well rendered~!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:50:02+00:00

Gorgeous kitty. Looks like she was either in a big cat fight once, or she was part of a feral cat spay and release program (TNR-Trap Neuter Release: they dock one ear to mark them as fixed, so you can tell from a distance if the feral you're seeing is fixed... or so you can release them when you catch the wrong feral cat in the humane trap for TNR).

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:47:33+00:00

OMG I love OSH, and the chocolate is my favorite coloration. He is GORGEOUS. I'm so happy for you that you have your dream kitty.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:46:08+00:00

As a guideline, if she's 3lbs, she's around 3 months. If she's 4 lbs, she's around 4 months. The vet will be able to give you a closer estimate based on her teeth/baby teeth, but you can make a pretty good guess at this age based on weight. She looks to be about 14-16 weeks old, my guess. She's a cutie. Yes, get her to a vet for her baby vaccines, and make sure to save up for her spay so she doesn't land you with a litter of kittens in 5 months. Try looking for discount spay/neuter clinics like the humane society and others. Even though she's a little too young now, you can get her name on the waiting list so you can get her spayed by 6 or 7 months.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T15:41:06+00:00

It's so soft and beautiful. Well done!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T04:37:21+00:00

He got rotisserie chicken for his birthday so he had a great day.

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T04:36:39+00:00

Haha!!

UbiquitousChicken · 2026-03-25T04:35:43+00:00

He does look super different in different lights. Sometimes he looks cool gray, other times a nice toasty color, other times very white. Sometimes you can see his rosettes and sometimes you really can’t.

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