Hi There,
our Bengals are about 8 generation. Although our first 2 pet Bengals were F5. The boy was more confident than his sister but both were really loving.
It is interesting knowing if the agression comes from lower generations but I've sometimes had the odd kitten that has been known to bite the owner in an agressive and not playfull way.
The mother to this kitten also used to nip me unexpectedly so I figured that she was passing this bad trait onto her kittens. She wasn't an early generation cat though. I neutered her after her first litter.
The temperaments are definately passed on to the offspring and I have noticed how different in character my kittens vary from litter to litter....some being more stupid and in your face more than others
I know now to only breed with cats with a good nature.
We were once given an adult female Bengal to breed from. She was 3 years old and had been living with someone that bred small dogs. She said that she didn't want to breed Bengals and had just had the 1 litter out of her.
We thought she was adorable and that we couldn't understand how she could part with such a loving cat. She slept on our bed the first couple of nights but on the third night I was just sat on the edge of the bed and as I turned to look at the cat her eyes were like big black circles ( pupils fully dilated ) !
Anyway before I knew what was happening she flew for my face and dug her claws in.... I was terrified and I ran to the door. You'd have thought that the devil had posessed her
My husband Steve thought it was funny
But 2 days later she did the same thing to him and then it wasn't funny
I phoned the owner and she then told me that her dogs were terrified of her and that she'd had a previous home before she got her.
Anyway we had 1 litter of kittens out of her and they were very sweet apart from 1 kitten that took to biting me and his owner to be . He soon stopped biting thankfully and turned into a wonderful boy and never bit me or his owner again.
I don't think it's just Bengals that can be aggressive, I think any cat of any breed is capable of it. It's all down to the inherited genes they pick up from parents and granparents.