The Bengal cat breed is a perfect example of man’s need to breed a domestic cat that has the look of a wild jungle cat. In the 1960’s there was an accidental mating between and Asian Leopard Cat and a black, short haired domestic cat at Jean Sugden’s home in California. She made no further attempt to develop this hybrid cat breed until the early 1970’s when she (now Jean Mill) received more such hybrids from Dr. Willard Centerwall at the University of California.