A Bengal is a cross between a domestic cat and an Asian Leopard cat (a Bengal tiger from India)...very expensive.
It needs at least four generations to be tamable.
Somebody could get a picture of one and sell it over and over again to make money, not even having a Bengal cat.
You do not "ship" a Bengal cat. You pay for somebody and pay for a plane ticket to and from where it's supposed to be delivered (and with the return ticket) to accompany the cat safely or you go there yourself to get the kitten and not pay until you get it and get a vet to assess it, just to make sure it was no stolen and has a microchip, like any breed cats have.
If you’re driving, it’s about 1,000 miles from Colorado to Minnesota, like 14 hours driving.
By plane it’s an hour 45 minutes + the time to get to your airport and I would say about $675 for a one-way plane ticket and $250 if you book your flight months earlier or show up at the airport without a plane ticket and get assigned a cheap one to fill empty sits.
Once, I got a cheap plane ticket, going from Paris (France) to Naples (Italy) with a stop in Rome and they did not have a second class sit for me so they gave me a first class seat with a huge seat and an awesome meal and first class service from the flight attendant…I ended up sitting next to one of my favorite actress. Romy Schneider who killed herself a couple of years later, when she could not deal with her son impaling himself on a pointy high metal fence.
Of course, you’re asking that kind of question makes you the perfect patsy but at least you’re asking the question so you know you’re being scammed.
Plus it’s just a few hundred dollars, later on, you could be scammed for one month salary and in your 50s, it’s your life savings and your house, so learn your lesson now!!
If you pay money and get nothing, you cannot even sue anybody because the cost of a lawyer and court fees would be greater and the court system don't really care about people falling for scams as there's enough dangerous and violent criminals to deal with + it's a good lesson for you to learn so later on, you don't lose your life savings at which point the scammer disappears.
It's both a scam and a good lesson to learn if you fall for it.
A Bengal kitten for sale would be a “reject”, not abiding to the breed species to compete in cat shows.
A breeder would not sale a Bengal but would find somebody else to breed that cat with other shows champions.
It’s fun to go to a cat show as the cats do not only need to meet their breed requirements (ear, tail, eye, fur color…) but also needs to abide to being handled by the show cats judges…my cat, a scratchy one would probably hide or scratch.
It’s fun when cat show caretakers let you pet their cats.
Those cats are tamed to be handled, some are ugly (the hairless ones that still win medals as they abide to their species)
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=hairless+cats&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004
Cat shows judges look at the ears, the eyes, the fur, the tail to determine if a cat conforms to specific species requirements, along with the cat being naturally the opposite of scratchy or biting if you would get to her.
Plus the judge lifts the cat and drops it to make an assessment about how the cat can land on its feet and keep its balance.
My cat is shy, hiding in my closet, scratching or biting.
She’s a great bug hunter but surely not a cat show because a judge would be sorry trying to handle her.
I can handle her because I’m her caretaker and she knows I provide her with love, affection, respect + food, water, a clean litter box, a good vet getting monthly preventive flea treatment and cutting/trimming her claws.
It took me a few months to learn that skill without hurting her…do not cut in the pink parts of the claws as pink = blood/nerves and would be very painful for your cat.
One of my lifetime achievements is that I never hurt a cat taking care of the claws.
I also never amputated a cat (declawing is a euphemism about amputating your cat).
Would you want to get your distal phalanges amputated to lose your nails?!
Hopefully you would not need to scratch an itch somewhere.
An amputated cat cannot use his/her nails to scratch, stretch, fight…
I also provide my cat with a roof over her head with heat in the winter and AC in the hot summer, protect her from potential predators, take care of her fur (she has magnificent shiny fur and short hair but still thick 3 layers of it) with a cat brush like this one with ball-tipped nylon bristles…
http://www.amazon.com/Hartz-Slicker-Brush-for-Cats/dp/B000VQ9NG0/ref=sr_1_20?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1403076289&sr=1-20&keywords=cat+brush
Plus I have to use a lint brush…I buy Evercare lint brush from Amazon, get a box with 12 refills.
Each time I use the lint brush like to get the little white specks from my black velvet pants (I don’t know where those come from) my cat comes a-running to be brushed. She lies down like a rag doll, stretches; some cats are called ragdolls because of their tendency to just go limp when picked up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragdoll
I’ve seen some funny video on YouTube about cats going limb and just falling down.
Even a guy trained his dog to go limb when imitating shooting with his fingers…bang-bang and the dog just falls down and plays dead like an opossum…hilarious.
Opossums are famous for “playing possum” (falling down and looking like they’re dead with their tongue hanging out) and also having 50 teeth (the most teeth for any land mammals) which is scary if you have to deal with an opossum that got trapped in your screen porch, using a cat door to get in but can’t find it to get out.
You might try to wide open your screened porch door but the opossum is climbing up your screen and that is when you get an interesting project to share with your kid(s) about how to free an opossum not playing possum but still having 50 teeth.
Then I become an amazing mom wearing the proper gear, like Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) and my kid is handling the butterfly mesh catcher and the broom. I’m handling the opossum and 50 teeth.
I gear up with my ice skating knee pads, elbow pads, reinforced gloves, helmet, thick leather clothing, knee high leather boots.
I managed to get the opossum out of my screen porch which was easier than getting an unvaccinated rabid cat in a cardboard box inside a blanket.
Animal Control shows up within 20 minutes if you can get the rabid animal secured in a blanket in a cardboard box.
Next time, I might use a taser for a rabid animal…that rabid cat was not inside my screened porch but acting like a frantic lunatic, jumping high and destroying my screen and scaring my cat (she hid in my closet).
Opossums can “play possum” when being threatened by dogs, foxes, or bobcats, opossums flop onto their sides and lie on the ground with their eyes closed or staring fixedly into space. They extend their tongues and generally appear to be dead. This ploy may put a predator off its guard and allow the opossum an opportunity to make its escape.
http://animals.mom.me/kinds-teeth-opossums-have-7721.html
A Bengal kitten would still be sold for several thousand dollars (not $250).
A Bengal having all the breed requirements to compete in cat shows cost several thousand of dollars for cat aficionados competing in cat shows.
The “rejects” are the ones too wild/scratchy and can be sold after being spayed (females) or neutered (males).
I was a foster for my current cat.
She was rejected three times by potential family as she was too wild and scratchy; she was a rescue from a feral cat colony.
The Humane Society where I live is the best of the State and a no-kill shelter but will still euthanize animals that are too sick, too old, or too wild to be adoptable.
They have a special room with the best older cats, as they euthanize the ones that are too old, too sick, depressed because their caretaker died.
The older cats that are deemed good enough to be adopted are very friendly, playful, and choose you for their caretaker (not the other way around).
“Here, little girl, I got you a cute new kitten for Christmas” and the next thing you hear is the girl screaming because the kitten scratched her and she’s bleeding!!