Ounce Cattery

                            From our Family to Yours
Why Bengal?  Why from Ounce?
About Us
We are a small family Bengal Breeder based in Northern California (Roseville).  We breed forever pets to be part of your family and enrich your life experience.

About Our Name
The snow leopard (also known as "ounce") is a moderately large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central Asia.  Why were snow leopards originally called ounce?  Research believes it might come from Latin: luncea which means lynx. In French the word became lonce which was altered over time to l’once because French speakers thought the “L” meant “the”.   We thought Ounce quite appropriate for our majestic cats.

About Bengals
Bengals are absolutely fascinating cats.   They have extremely exotic looks accompanied by wild personalities. 

They are fully domesticated animals, but the looks come from their origination from a hybrid of the Asian Leopard Cat (ALC) and a domestic cat through a breeding program started by Jean Mill of Millwood Bengals.

Asian Leopard Cat (@Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org)

Breeding Program
Our extreme love for cats and a passion for sustaining the breed led to the opening of Ounce Cattery.

We breed for temperament (kid friendly, water loving, and personality rich) as well as correct type (great muscle, nocturnal eyes, great whisker pads and thick tails).

To learn more about Bengals click here or to see the Bengal Standard, click here.

We started our breeding program in 2008 with the goal of breeding spotted silver and snow Bengals.  In 2010, with the addition of SimplySimes LesisMore, Ounce Cattery has added brown Bengals as well as the potential of marbled Bengals! 

Caring for our cats include keeping the cats under veterinarian care and making sure their environment is fun and cage free, safe, and sanitary.  

Devon and LesisMore...can you hear her purrrrring?

From our Family to Yours

We are passionate about our cats.  They are far more than just a business, they are a part of our family.  They are around children, other animals and friends 100% of the time. 

Tabitha hugging Brandon

Tabitha and Lucian

DGCH PocketLeopards Lucian Chat of Ounce__Seal Spotted Lynx Point Bengal


SimplySimes LesisMore of Ounce__Brown Spotted Bengal


Heartfelt Tabitha Chat of Ounce


Ounce Little Wonder Chat__Silver (Black) Spotted Bengal

SimplySimes LesisMore of Ounce__Brown Spotted Bengal




Questions?
If you have questions about our cats, our family or our breeding program, please don't hesitate to email me at stacy@ouncecattery.com.