Cat Tree : These are a nice combination of a place to sleep and play for your Bengal cat. You can either give them a quality scratching post to use, or you can give them nothing and watch as they tear your furniture to shreds.
Cat Bed : Keeping your little Bengal comfortable and warm at night is extremely important and giving them a specific place to sleep is essential. Collar : This is a good idea to buy immediately as Bengal cats tend to be pretty good escape artists and you should put a collar on them with a tag immediately.
This will make the shedding less prevalent and allow you to reduce the pesky cat hair all over the house. Book : Though not required, reading a book on Bengal cats will help you better understand them before you get them home. They are a challenging breed and understanding them completely before you adopt is a good idea.
The best place to buy your Bengal kitten from is from an official Bengal cat breeder. Most Bengal kittens will cost you more than an adult Bengal. This will all depend on their location, the breeder, their gender, and their quality. It also will depend on their generation with F4 and higher being the least expensive. So, did this help you to better understand how much it might cost you to buy your own Bengal kitten? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Hybrids also tend to be higher maintenance than other cat breeds, which reduces their numbers. Those legal barriers make it more difficult for responsible breeders to get established, and makes the breed slightly rarer. These last two factors are incredibly important. Responsible catteries have incredibly high breeding standards, and the selection of Bengals that meet the requirements is relatively small.
Avoiding inbreeding makes suitable matches between breeding cats even more select, limiting the options for a cattery that wants to maintain healthy animals. Breeders also have an incentive to keep Bengals rare because of their high costs of care. Many catteries would not break even on their costs if Bengal cats were cheaper.
Keeping the breed a little rarer and ensuring there is more demand for Bengal kittens than supply, helps breeders maintain their high standards for genetic quality and care of the cats. Bengal cats from a responsible cattery are also generally more expensive because they have invested a lot of resources, time, and attention into the care of their kittens. Your cattery has also likely already put in the vital work of getting your kitten litter trained. Some will have also helped train your cat not to bite or claw people and other fundamental training.
Avoid your local pet store unless they are working with a shelter to sell rescued cats. While some pet stores do an excellent job of sourcing their animals from reputable breeders, many do not. Not all catteries are reputable, either. Look for a local cattery that will let you come and visit the kittens before you adopt them. Ask to see where the kittens and their parents are housed.
You should also ask about their training and medical care since responsible catteries work closely with a vet to make sure all their animals are healthy. The debate between buying and adopting cats is as heated as the same debate for dogs. Some breeders will also choose to price individual kittens differently based on the quality of their appearance. Note that when looking for a Bengal, you might see kittens described as pet vs. Breeder quality indicates that a kitten has great traits that are ideal to pass down in order to preserve or improve the Bengal breed.
This kitten would be sold to a registered breeder and include breeder rights, meaning they can legally breed it. Show quality is a step above breeder quality. It means that the kitten has all the desired traits you want to see in a Bengal, and could do very well when judged in a cat show.
You would pay more for a Bengal that comes with showing rights. For those interested in showing or breeding Bengals, all pricing we discussed above can be thrown out the window.
Pricing factors for show or breeder quality Bengals include the appearance, lineage, or potential benefit the cat can bring to a breeding program. Growing kittens are expensive to feed, and it takes a lot of time to socialize them and clean up after them! The breeder is trying to cut costs… but at the expense of the kitten.
Kittens that are weaned too early are prone to lifelong behavior issues, including fear and aggression. A kitten that goes home between weeks old may be a little more expensive due to the extra cost to raise them, and the extra socialization time, but the result is a much more socially developed kitten.
On the other hand, there may be situations where a kitten was returned to a breeder for an unusual circumstance and the breeder is now looking to re-home an older kitten. Kittens nearing adulthood may be priced lower, as the new family may feel like they missed out on kittenhood. The higher the demand for certain Bengals, the greater the cost. Bengals can have many different coat colors, including Brown, Silver, Snow, Charcoal, and Melanistic.
There are also a variety of patterns including spotted, different types of rosettes, and marbling. Some colors are more rare, which can affect cost as well. Supply and demand within your geographical area could affect price as well. Reputable breeders may have a long waitlist of individuals waiting for a Bengal kitten from them, and this can mean higher prices.
Or there may simply be more demand in your area than there are good breeders. To help get you started on the right paw, many breeders will make sure their kittens and families are fully equipped for their new adventures….
The factors we listed above are easy enough to gauge quickly, but determining the level of breeder care will require a little more diligent investigation on your part. An ethical breeder will never sacrifice the wellbeing of their animals for the sake of a lower price for the buyer.
So when searching for a kitten, you may want to pay slightly less attention to the kitten itself and focus your attention on the breeder.
A knowledgeable breeder is going to be well aware of this, and will be diligent about keeping the health of the breed a prominent focus. But this requires testing, which costs money. We cover these health conditions in detail in this post. The most prominent factor to kitten pricing is HCM screening. A breeder selling cheap kittens cannot afford this screening. In addition to genetic health testing, breeders must be diligent about routinely screening for infectious disease and address anything that crops up in a timely manner.
You can use the directory to find a breeder who prioritizes health testing and has the marks of an ethical breeder as discussed more below.
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