Typha & Typhast Burmese, Bengal, Bombay and Asian Selfs Cat Breeder
 

 
 
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Rosie Alger-Street is a GCCF Judge of Bengals and was Journal Editor of The Bengal Times for many years. This was the official magazine for the Bengal Cat Club and was the main means of contact with the members until superseded in recent years by the Club Website. When she and Barrie founded the Bengal Cat Club in 1993, she took on the job of Membership Secretary, then progressed to Hon. Secretary before becoming the Journal Editor.

In 1992, Rosie and Barrie visited the USA to see Bengals at first hand. Rosie fell head-over- heels in love with the Sepia (AOC-Eyed) Snow, and in 1993, they brought the first pair into the country. Calusa Typha Snowstorm, (Storm), the boy, died last year at just over 17 years old, and for many years was the much-loved house-pet who greeted everyone who visited. He was a fantastic character and is missed by all who knew him. Sadly, his niece, Typha Dashofmarble (Dasha) also passed away last Christmas day at the age of 16 years old. She was out of Gogees Warhawk, and is also part of Bengal history as she was the first AOC-Eyed Snow Marble in the country and the second in the world (the first being in Canada).Two Bengal golden oldies who are sorely missed and will never be forgotten.
However, there are still some early-generation retired snows left at The Rosery, loved and pampered as they should be. It is a lovely sight to see them contentedly laying around like a pride of lions. They are now elderly and neutered, but the lines are still going

As an authority on the Bengal breed of cat, Rosie has been asked on numerous occasions to write articles about this beautiful breed, some of which you can find below.
   
Barrie Alger-Street has recently retired as Chairman of The Bengal Cat Club having filled this position for 6 years. He is still Vice Chairman of The Bengal Breed Advisory Committee. Together with his wife, Rosie, they founded The Bengal Cat Club in 1993 when he took on the job of Welfare Officer. He first became interested in Bengals with a chance reading of an American cat magazine in 1989. A further opportunity to read more about Bengals a year later, sparked real interest, and so began that familiar itch you cannot scratch! In 1991, his mind was made up and so began Typhast Bengals in the UK. A love of this beautiful breed, equally shared by Rosie, has meant that they have been at the forefront of helping the breed towards its true potential.


As significant improvements have appeared in the USA, they have continued to add these to their own developing lines in order to help this breed become 'the cat on the brink of tomorrow'”. Having been involved in Bengals since the outset in the UK, Barrie has become particularly caught up in the legislative issues concerning Bengals within the UK and has become the spokesman for the breed on this subject.

The picture above shows Barrie with Typhast Nighthawk, the first Black and Gold Marbled
Bengal born and registered in the UK
   
   
Article 1 The Bengal Cat - An article on Bengals Rosie wrote for a cat magazine during the early days of the Bengal breed in the UK when not much was known about the history of the Bengal cat.
   
   
Article 2 Visit to Chicago Cat Show - An account of Rosie and Barrie's trip to the Prairie State Cat Club’s Ninth Fall Harvest Cat Show in Franklin Park, IL. Chicago, IL in the USA, 2004.
   
   
Article 3 Typhast Early Generation Bengals - Explanation how Rosie and Barrie bred the Typhast line of Bengals using F2, F3 and F4s and why they don't use such close cousins of the Asian Leopard cat anymore.
   
   
Article 4 Legislation in the U.K. and Bengals - Article by Barrie about the CITES Legislation, The Pet Passport Scheme and the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976. Important for anyone who is thinking of breeding, importing or exporting Bengal cats.