Ajooba Cats
Contact us for kitten availability or enquiries regarding our breeding programme by email or phone: 0121 246 2268. Please do NOT call us to ask prices, our kittens are from £400.
registered since 2007
Legal Disclaimer: We have no affiliation or connection to any other breeder or their cattery, despite any unauthorised use of our cattery name. Please beware of any internet scams and contact us on ajoobacats@me.com to clarify any confusion.
Ajooba Braveheart
SGCA Gradena Golden Nugget of Ajooba
We contribute to the Bengal HCM research Fund at the Winn Foundation and HCM scan our cats annually
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About Bengals
Bengals are relatively new breed of pedigree cats. They are the result of hybridisation of the Asian Leopard Cat and a domestic cat. These initial matings were undertaken by Jean Mill in the 1960s and 1970s. The resulting hybrid were bred down four generations to give us the wild looking and striking Bengals we see today.
Right: A beautiful Asian Leopard Cat (ALC)
We do not have any early generations Bengals here currently. We would love to have suitable space and housing to have them in future. Our current cats are 6th generation and beyond which are commonly termed SBT Bengals.
The kittens resulting from the ALC and domestic cat outcross are termed filials or early generation Bengals. These cats cannot be shown under any cat registry.
A Bengal cat is termed SBT once it is 4 generations away from the original ALC and domestic cat outcross.
About Us
We are both professionals, I qualified as a doctor from St Mary’s Hospital Medical school in 1998 and worked as a GP and had various teaching hospital posts until I stopped working on health grounds more recently.
Bengal Cats are vivacious and active cats. Some like to fetch they love affection and being involved in their environment. Our Bengal Cats like to sit and sleep on our laps, follow us around, and constantly play. They enjoy company of humans and other pets once they are used to them. A well socialised Bengal needs to be handled frequently from the age of 2 weeks.
We feel strongly about Bengal kittens being brought up in our home, so they are used to household noises and are confident pets. Temperament is very important to us as we need our cats to be easy to handle and enjoy shows.
A Bengal Cat may not be suitable for every home and we do our best to let you see for yourself how interactive our cats are.
We started being owned by Bengals in 2006 and by Summer 2007 we had shown our pet Gradena Golden Nugget to achieve the Supreme Grand Champion Alter title. We then showed our pet Wotmore Tinker Tagora to Quadruple Grand Champion Alter and Purebliss Quinoro Pearl to achieve his Champion title.
Right: Nugget and Quin, two of our pet Bengals who titled relaxing at home.
Our stud boys do live in outdoor pens because they spray and require their own space. We have not had any male kittens bred by us spray indoors and we insist they are neutered by 6 months of age.
Left: Wotmore tinker Tagora at a TICA show.
Right: Our cat pens and runs, constructed purpose built in 2008 in time for our first stud boy to live outside when he started spraying.
Our queens also spray if they aren’t happy with the cats we have indoors and need their space, or if they are in their estrus cycle and want to be mated. So they too are in the pens periodically.
Our cats live in pairs in their pens. We visit them at least twice a day to make sure they have everything they need and are loved and fussed like the cats we have indoors.
Left: Our retired queen Bramblewood Eve with our stud boy Korshki Back to the Future living together in the the winter of 2008.
We spent 18 months showing Bengals with TICA and GCCF before we decided to breed Bengal Cats ourselves. We loved the challenge of breeding these cats and producing characteristics in them that would satisfy the requirements of pedigree cat shows as well as being superb pets. Our approach to breeding our Bengals is professional but not business orientated.
The health of our cats is very important to us and is our priority. We test for HCM, PKD, intestinal parasites and screen for FeLV and FIV annually too. We do all we can to eliminate risk of illness in our kittens and are happy to discuss our screening results with prospective new owners.
The hybridisation of the ALC, many believe, is where genes leading to HCM, PKD and other genetic illnesses were introduced into the breed. ALCs are also cats and probably vulnerable to feline illnesses like HCM and that is why it is so important for us as breeders to test our cats and trace back pedigrees to find healthy breeding cats and eliminate bloodlines that may produce ill cats.