Willow looks a lovely boy.

We had 3 bengals.

The girl always used litter tray but we had problems with the boys spraying/marking around the house.

One boy would do it on/off all the time and the other very occasionally.

We lived with it, changed most of our flooring to hard surfaces, bought leather furniture and made sure all curtains/ fabrics out of ‘bum’ range.

All our bengals died last year – at the grand old age of 16 – and I’m missing them.

Willow looks like a combination of one of my boys and the girl.

She was a blue marble from Typhast and he was a spotted boy we bought from Esmond Gay.

But my partner is reluctant to get another boy due to urine problems.

Can anyone help me convince him that Willow would be right for us?

Hi,

Was your boy "done"? This could have been the problem for the weeing. I have a boy and he was spraying before he was done but now he doesnt.

xx

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Shantra

Both boys were neutered.
In fact the one that marked, Jelli-Roll, was neutered at 6 months and Jazzi was over 7 months old when we had him done.
We bought Jelli-Roll when he was just over 8 weeks old and the breeder, Esmond Gay, wanted us to take him asap so we got him when he was 9 weeks old.
My partner is convinced we took him too early from his mother. Although he had the typical bengal temperament- cheeky as a barrel load of monkeys- he was never as confident as the other two. You could set a bomb off next to them and they wouldn’t care. And they thought that everyone loved them.
Jelli-Roll was always much more cautious , a bit of a coward – unless food was involved – didn’t like strangers, loud noises etc. Maybe he was living up to his name
Based on this we have a theory about bengal types.
Jelli-Roll was the wiry, pointed faced, smaller ‘wilder’ type of bengal.
The other two were the broader faced, bigger body type bengal.
All three were very gentle and affectionate but Jelli-Roll was more of a lap cat and more sensitive than the others..
We wonder if this type of bengal is more likely to spray.
What do you think?