I can’t promise someone who works at a bengal rescue truly understands F1 hybrid genetics. I understand you love her either way, I’m just trying to let you know she can’t be a black footed cat x domestic cat hybrid. Marble pattern is recessive and doesn’t exist in BFC, therefore any direct offspring of a black footed cat cannot be anything other than spotted.
Could she be the offspring of a (bfc x cat)x cat? Or even a few more generations down? If I worked at a shelter I would still call that a black footed cat hybrid.
Yes, it can’t be a direct offspring but it could be several more generations removed - but the odds are EXTREMELY slim for two reasons: 1) with marble being recessive, the odds of it showing up in random breeding with a BFC in the first couple of generations is slim. 2) with BFC being so endangered and one of the rarest of wild cats, it would have to be some super sketchy person breeding them with domestics, and then continually breeding the line down with more domestics. Consider the odds of a shelter cat just being a standard domestic cat rather than several generations removed from one of the rarest wild cats on the planet.
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u/Acgator03 Bengal 16d ago
I can’t promise someone who works at a bengal rescue truly understands F1 hybrid genetics. I understand you love her either way, I’m just trying to let you know she can’t be a black footed cat x domestic cat hybrid. Marble pattern is recessive and doesn’t exist in BFC, therefore any direct offspring of a black footed cat cannot be anything other than spotted.