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We purchased our first
Bengal, as a pet, in 1998 and named her
Merkaba. The name is from the 18th
Dynasty Egyptian dialect meaning Light,
Body, Soul. Though she screamed
her head of f the entire two our
drive home and would not let us anywhere
near her for two months, Merkaba somehow
touched our hearts and we have never
been the same. We wanted to create
some beautiful Bengals of our own, cats
that appeared to have just stumbled out
of the wilds of the rainforest yet
loving and gentle, too.
We soon had a boy for
Merkaba to breed to, and from there we
grew and grew and grew! The
Bengals became our lives! We built
a 60' x 100' beautiful building
with linoleum and carpets and all the
amenities of home for our Bengals
and their babies. The cat shows
were addicting! We attended every
show within a day's driving distance for
the first three years, and never made it
to even one final. But, we loved
it and continued on with our vision of
what a show Bengal should be. Then
after five years of giggles and tears
and tens of thousands of dollars we saw
our dream kitties created right before
our eyes. The judges rewarded our
efforts with win after win and Merkaba
Bengals became nearly unbeatable in the
show rings.
Our Bengal babies
started selling like
wildfire...................we had litter
after litter, working from morning till
night in our quest, our lives were
completely taken over with Bengals.......Bengal
buyers, Bengal shows, sales, airport
trips to fly our babies all around the
world, emails and phone calls to talk
with our Bengal buddies, Bengal buyers
and prospective buyers.
Then in 2006 we were
blessed with the most amazing
news.........I was pregnant! At 43
years old, I was amazed and oh so
blessed with the news. All of our
priorities needed to change......that
was a certainty. During the nine
months we were waiting for our bundle of
joy to arrive, we sold all but four of
our prized Bengals.
On January 4th of 2007
we were blessed with the most amazing
little boy we could have ever asked for
"Elijah Mathew"!!
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Elijah
and his very own special
kitty TNT Tagen. |
As I write this it is
October 2007 and we are just now
starting to think about creating some
more lovely Bengal babies. It will
be on a much much smaller scale, with
just one to two litters a year. With
God's blessing our kittens will continue
to be more amazing with each generation.
Our cattery building has been turned
into a woodshop and our Bengal babies,
from this point on, will all be raised
underfoot in our home along side Elijah. |
