Amber Mountain Bengals are currently breeding specifically for the rare and highly desirable Snow, Silver and Blue as well as producing outstanding Brown Bengals and as such they are leading the way with this recessive Gene pool.
  
Eye Colours
   
Glitter
Diamond dust and Golden sparkles
An additional unique characteristic of the Bengal colour is that Bengal cats have a distinct "glitter" effect over their fur, as if each hair were tipped with gold dust (Browns) or ice (snows). This remarkable characteristic is considered highly desirable.
 
These are two hairs seen under an electron microscope
The hair to the right is the hair from the domestic cat, non glitter. The hair to the left is the glitter hair. They are not shown at the same magnification; however, you can see several things from a quick observation. One is that the glitter hair appears almost like asparagus... with triangular ridges in its shape... the hypothesis is that these ridges cause refraction of light. It is not known at this time, what is true. Only that there is a decided difference in the glitter coat and the domestic cat. |
Agouti Banding/Ticking
The background colour of the Bengal cat is banded in colours… agouti banded. The degree of uniform colouring appearance comes from the least amount of colour differentiation in the bands of colours. Agouti banding can be seen when you rub the hair backward to the direction it is growing. While the background colouring is banded the appearance comes from the least amount of colour differentiation in the bands of colours. Agouti banding can be seen when you rub the hair backward to the direction it is growing. While the background colouring is banded the darkest colour usually appears at the tips, the lighter colour appearing at the base. This is often referred to as ticking on the Bengal cat, it is really agouti banding with wide variation and comes and goes during the fuzzies stage. |
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Marbled Pattern |
Spotted Pattern |
Arrow Head Pattern |
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Coat Colour
BrownBrowns Range from hot red to cool gold, their golden sparkle stands out more than any other glitter colour and they absolutely glisten in the sun. |
Blue
Blues are brown on grey, and having been controversial for some time, pioneering breeders around the world are now working to perfect them, and introduce them to the show bench.
Find out more about blue Bengals at www.blue-bengals.com |
Silver Silvers are Black on silver only very rarely will a silver be glittered but the contrast of colour is stunning. |
Papillion Snagglepuss’ dad below
 
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  Snows Lynx - Mink - Blue
Amber Mountain Snow Bengals breed to imitate
snow leopard markings.With the future intention of breeding
and promoting the most rare and exotic coloured Bengals
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Snow Mink |
Snow Blue |
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| Born white, they keep a glacier white background with grey/black tips and brown markings |
Beige to brown patterns on creme |
The tail tip is a definite 'grey' rather than black, and you can see that there is no black on her whatsoever.
The 'eyeliner' is a pinkish grey as are the paw pads.
The 'hocks' and tail tip are grey
The coat markings are a mushroom/grey, and in some lights she has a 'lavender' hue to her coat colour. |
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