Zugzog Bengals are UK breeders of brown and snow, spotted and marbled Bengals of show, breeding and pet quality.

All our kittens are reared in the home, not in pens, and are very much loved.

Latest News!
Ra - For Sale as Stud. See Stud page for details.
Moti had her first litter on April 10th. Six Silvers!!! See Kitten News for details & pictures.
Vi & Ra had a litter of 4 on February 17th. See Kitten News for details.
Tino, beautiful retired boy, is looking for a new home. See Rehoming for details.

There is stll a brother & sister looking for a new home, their owner has become allergic to them!


About Zugzog
I first saw a Bengal in 2001 in the Spanish magazine "Todo Gatos" and immediately started to find out about the breed. When Batcat, my moggie companion of 18 years, died later that year, I was so devastated, that I decided never to have only one cat again. The result is 10 cats! You can 'meet' them all in the following pages of this site, but in summary there are 7 Bengals, 2 Chocolate Asians (called Twix & Minstrel!) and 1 Chocolate Burmese (Malteaser)... I also had to move house to provide them with a big, safe garden and room for kittens.

The prefix 'Zugzog' comes from my childhood. We lived in Sumatra, Indonesia for 3 years and I had a pet monkey called Zugzog.

All my cats are, first & foremost, very much loved pets and as the numbers indicate, I do not always find it easy to let the kittens go! Bengals are very addictive. Once you have experienced one, you will never be without them again. They are beautiful, intelligent, fun and fantastic company. They are also very robust and don't seem to suffer from many of the common ailments often associated with pedigree cats. The one problem that I have heard of, however, is a condition called Luxating Patella, or Patella Luxation. This translates as 'dislocating knee'. It occurs in one or both of the hind legs. Usually the cat will get used to putting the knee back in and will often grow out of it. The condition occurs because the Asian Leopard Cat (ancestor of the Bengal) had two additional vertebrae. When the ALC was first bred with a domestic cat, the resulting Bengals often had problems with luxating patella, because of the extra pressure put on its hind legs from its back. Several generations down the line, it is rare, but still occurs. Although, in my experience, it doesn't prevent the affected cat having a perfectly normal and active life - I know one Bengal with the condition that has no trouble climbing 20 feet up trees!

For more information on Luxating Patella, please click on the link.