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Bengal Cats: A comprehensive guide...January 25, 2008 21 out of 24 found this review helpful
This book is beautifully laid out, has fantastic pictures of the various colours and patterns that the bengal comes in. It is also the only book of it's kind easily available to prosepctive owners and breeders. Dan Rice is a retired veterinarian in the USA who enjoys bengals and has tried to make this book as comprehensive as he can.
I only wish it could have been longer with more pictures, perhaps the next one will be...
I cannot describe this as a bengal bible as there is a lot to learn about bengals and this comes from living with them. Also the book cannot possibly address all health issues, so this information will have to be sought in other publications.
Overall I loved this book and it was a lovely read when we were expecting to home out first bengal over 2 years ago.
DisappointingApril 28, 2006 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book to try and gain an insight into my recently adopted Bengal cats. Unfortunately I would dispute its claim as 'A Complete Pet Owner's Manual', as its focus is mainly on show cats or breaders. It is also only A5 in size, and has quite a few pages of colour photos, which although may be cute don't really add much to the book. I don't think I learnt anything that I didn't know after living with my 2 cats for a couple of months.
What a fab book!!February 19, 2006 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Just recently got a bengal cat and decided to get a book all about them. This is a really interesting read - details all that you could really need to know from the background to how bengal cats were first breed through to funny things like training your cat to use the toilet - not sure we'll be doing that!!! Has a funny little section on "zooming" or as we had nicknamed it before we knew what it was "skitso" moments when your cat will suddenly start bounding about the place at full pelt, skidding everywhere and basically trying to trip you up at the first given opportunity - which ours does quite alot.
It is a really good book and I would recommended it to anyone who either is thinking of buying a bengal cat or who already has one but wants to know a bit more about the breed/personality of this kind of cat.
Everything a beginner needs to knowDecember 13, 2005 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book over the week or two before getting my Bengals and found it contained just the right amount of information I needed at that point. There's certainly far more to learn about Bengals and I'll be getting a bigger more detailed book soon but when you've got a new Bengal arriving soon and don't have time to read a bible-sized book, it provides all the useful info you should need to know right away. I think Bengal breeders should include this book in the kitten pack they give along with the kitten.
A wasted opportunity.June 15, 2005 16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed with this book for several reasons: I could no more recommend this book as "A Complete Pet Owner's Manual" as the cover claims, than I could recommend a similar 96 page A5 book with the title "A Complete Guide to Your New Baby" as a manual for first time parents. The author has not only tried to cover in this small space all aspects of owning a cat, but has also taken up half the space with photographs, many of which have captions like "Atop a kitchen chair. Next stop, the tuna on the counter" or "Won't anyone help a lonesome little kitten?" These are charming, but not very useful. I had hoped for a book that concentrated on the characteristics unique to Bengals, and that explained and illustrated the ideals for each of the colours and patterns. There are only 5 pages on the history of the breed, 3 on "understanding Bengal cats" and 2 for a truncated breed standard. Most of the space in this book is taken up either with information general to all cats or with photographs. The pictures focus on brown spotted Bengals. I counted 55 photos of brown spotted, 4 of brown marbled and a total of 4 of all the other colours. I have recently been lucky enough to acquire a beautiful brown marbled Bengal (currently "helping" me by standing on the keyboard), and I found this aspect particularly frustrating. So, if you want information on caring for cats then I would advise a much larger encyclopaedia. If you want information specific to Bengals, I turned up much more information with a thorough internet search. The only thing I can say in favour of this book is that it is good to hand to visitors who have never seen a Bengal before.
