Dan, you are obviously in the UK which may have different paperwork involved! Bengals are usually sold as pet quality, show quality and breeding queen. There are different price ranges for each of them. The paperwork you have may not be blue or have the box for showing. I didn't realize you were in the UK. The SBTs are 4th generations and higher. F1 through F3 bengals are considered the early generation or foundation bengals. F4s are considered domestic cats. Many areas here in the US do not allow early generation bengals to be owned by anyone but a breeder. It's state specific. The UK may be completely different.
Registering your cat does a couple of things. You can give your kitty a pedigreed name (unless the breeder has selected this for you). Secondly, it continues the full pedigree for your kitty! I know you can get a 3 or 5 generation pedigree from TICA (for a cost). It allows you to see the parents, grand parents, great grand parents, great, great grandparents, etc. that helped create your kitty. Unfortunately, you may also find all the inbreeding that has gone on in the breed since 1986, which has caused so many of the congenital problems with the bengal. It seems all pedigrees go back to Rorschach of Millwood (F1) that started the whole breed.
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