Most Expensive Cat Breed

Is $42,000 too much to pay for a house cat? Well, Cindy Jackson of London, England didn’t think so when she purchased her second-generation Bengal cat in 1998 from breeder Lord C. Esmond Gay for about £25,320. The purchase of this expensive cat still holds the Guiness’ number one spot for most expensive cat breed purchased. They aren’t normally that expensive, but they don’t come cheap.

Bengals can cost anywhere from $970 - $4000. The second-generation Bengal owned by Cindy Jackson is a hybrid of a wild Asian leopard cat bred with a domestic one. Another hybrid breed with Asian leopard blood, the Ashera, may be slightly more eye-catching than Ms. Jackson’s. Further, at $22,000, they’re certainly an expensive breed of cat. The Ashera weighs around 30 lbs and lives for 25 years. The reason the Ashera is such an expensive cat breed is that each one is guaranteed to have the same coloring and appearance. British entrepeneur Simon Brodie also developed another expensive cat, the hypoallergenic cat. These cats notably do not possess the gene that causes them to produce the Fel d 1 glycoprotein, the major cat allergen.

This allows cat lovers whose families include one or more persons with feline allergies, or who have feline allergies themselves, to still keep a feline friend around the house. Lifestyle Pets are even planning on introducing a hypoallergenic Ashera in the coming year. These cats range in expense from the Allerca GD’s $5,950 price tag to the Ashera GD’s $28,000 price tag.

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