Boy for cat lovers most of you are sure a hateful group, Let me address
some of the more serious questions.

    Extra toes are not a deformity anymore; Science has found out
it's actually a dominant trait, that's why we are seeing it more
and more. It has never caused different or other deformities as you
call it. It also is a dominant trait in humans but because people
worried about what others thought, the doctors recommended for them to
be removed shortly after birth so they wouldn't be out of place, it
was thought to be an embarrassment in the past days.  There is a cat
that is accepted for show with extra toes, it's the Pixie Bob which
also is a type of Manx. So my guess is that the polydactyl and short
tail is from that type of cat. But I have no proof, because these cats
are not papered.
And you guys are right I'm not a breeder, so I don't have a waiting
list.  I live in a small town surrounded by ranchers, and we must
travel 200 miles to get any major stuff, and sadly there are many feral
cats in this town. Also, in the trailer park next door.  Every year
come spring, I end up rescuing from 1 to 3 kittens when the mowers
start there mowing. This of course Frightens the feral mother cats and
they lose some of there young trying move them (some get lost).
     This lady  (Lois) I know has paid and got  many peoples cats
fixed,  that couldn't afford it, about 3 a year. She is retired and
on a fixed income, she is my friend and I had hoped to use any money
collected to pay  on her vet bills.She will never accept any money from
anyone.. She also drives them to a vet over 200 miles away and back.
    Sorry if I offended anyone. I thought It would have been a nice
Christmas present and a good way to help her meet some of the cost for
all the cats she gets spayed & neuteres, and give someone a real break
in price for someone who might want a Bengal for a pet, not to show..
     For me, I'm disabled so I spend all my time at home with them,
and My chows.
I got lucky to have gotten these two, These two allready had the
hybred Manx and Pixie Bob crossed with Bengal.  My three favorite type
of cats all in one.
     They have had all there shots; with a record of the people they
came from and there parents.
     As for health problems I know nothing about the things you've
mentioned, due to the fact that I have had cats all my life and I have
never seen any health problems except for in a cat I rescued that had
spinal Bifida, this cat would have been killed because this problem, is
a deformity, that takes a great deal of extra care. But as long as
she's happy to live with her conditions I love her enough to deal
with it.
    And yes Bengals have a different personality. Mine I love dearly.
The biggest difference that I noticed is; from the day we brought them
home, they are total trusting to our Chow dogs? But Naula still
doesn't trust any other cats except Zorro, she runs to him every day
as if to greet him, shares affection, and then settles in close to
where he is. It's like she has picked him and only him as her mate?
They don't like to be held and snuggled a lot, but they do come over
too me for a quick pet as to say hi ,  but every night she crawls upon
my side facing the door and then sleeps, as if she's guarding me when
I'm asleep. Zorro has some affectionate times, being the charmer that
he is, every night before bedtime he runs in and insists on saying hi
by making sure that I get hugs and him too for about 15 minutes, then
he's done with me, next my Chow chow that sleeps on the end of my
bed, Zorro massages him up and down his back. Then sleeps there. They
have never shown any fear to our dogs, they even trusted there babies
by them.????
     Oh someone said our Address and links are bogus, I checked and
the number I forgot to give the prefix, .
     If you have anything else you want express please do it here, or
email me direct.  And I will give you the phone #.  .but please don't
call the phone number with rude comments the phone is my message  phone
wich is Lois's phone
What's a troll anyway?
                    and a kitten mill?
            Enigma, at     enigma@tnet.biz