Raising Bengal Cats

Created By Keira Sarmiento

Nail clipping before mating

Nutrition boosts before mating

Health checks before mating

How Divinus Pride Bengals Cares For Their Cats

Created By Keira Sarmiento

Monitoring the "queen" during mating

Preparing the "queen" for labor

How Divinus Pride Bengals Cares For Their Cats

Created By Keira Sarmiento

Assisting "queen" with caring for kittens

Health checks for the kittens

How Divinus Pride Bengals Cares For Their Cats

Queen: "a mature female cat kept especially for breeding" According to Merriam-Webster

"About a week or so before the queen is about to give birth, maybe two weeks, we'll move her into a more quiet area by herself. We'll actually move her into our room and we have a special area where we can monitor everything that's going on." -Joseph Bender

Queen: "a mature female cat kept especially for breeding" According to Merriam-Webster

"While they're mating, the male can be very persistent, and the female could want a break, so we have to watch for that if the female is showing us signs." -Joseph Bender

"We'll start boosting their nutrition in advance. We'll start increasing their diet and we'll start adding some supplements like omegas threes and some other vitamins. We'll do that for both the female and male so that they're at the optimum level of nutrition and health." -Joseph Bender

"We get a baseline heath understanding of all of our breeding cats. We go through a thorough testing regimen with that cat for hereditary or genetic issues, anything that we may not want for a breeding cat just to prevent any issues going forward." -Joseph Bender

"To prevent the cats from potentially getting cuts or anything like that, we do nail clipping to make sure their nails are nice and short and there is no way that they're going to be puncturing each other." -Joseph Bender

Queen: "a mature female cat kept especially for breeding" According to Merriam-Webster

"When the litter is born, we're just assisting mama. We have some queens that can do everything themselves and we have other queens who need complete assistance from clipping the umbilical cords to getting the kittens to nurse. So it just depends on the experience of the queen that we're working with." -Joseph Bender

"During those first few weeks, there's a lot of checking. We check their eyes and we check their ears." -Joseph Bender