F4 kitten, F4 kitten, all for me!

The previously mentioned kitten that we're getting when I move to England is an absolutely beautiful bengal. Except that, technically speaking, we're not allowed to call him that. And for the same reason we can't say he's a pedigree. He's above pedigree. He's something of a 'master cat' when it comes to the bengal breed, although he will be neutered.

The bengal breed gets its wild looks and spots from the Asian Leopard Cat. Up until the fifth generation removed from the ALC, the kittens are called foundation cats. F1 is first generation, F2 is second, and so on. When you get to F5, you can consider the cat to be a domestic bengal. So an F4 is really something special. He's not an exotic any more, but he's not officially a bengal yet either.

We've already picked out a name for him. "Olo." I laughed when Philip first introduced that name to me in the form of an original roleplaying character, but don't knock Olo. Because Olo is just the most awesome character ever. And Olo is god. Or so he, and just about everyone else, believes. You know the character has to be cool when I go around singing his name to myself. Maybe sometime I'll bless everyone with more information about the intriguing Olo.