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

 
 
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Rosie Alger-Street is a GCCF Judge of Bengals and Journal Editor of The Bengal Times, Official magazine for the Bengal Cat Club. 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 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 Typhasnowstorm the male, is 13 years old now and a much loved pet who greets everyone who visits. There are seven generations of snows at the Rosery. It is a lovely sight to see them contentedly lying around like a pride of lions. A large number of them 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 is currently Chairman of The Bengal Cat Club and 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 U.K., Barrie has become particularly caught up in the legislative issues concerning Bengals within the U.K 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 U.K."
   
   
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 F4's 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.