Mill Jean

American cat breeder and conservationist who worked to protect the Asian leopard cat. Mill is best known as the founder of the modern Bengal cat breed: Mill successfully crossed the wild Asian leopard cat with a domestic cat, and then backcrossed the offspring through five generations to create the domestic Bengal. Mill made contributions in two other cat breeds: the Himalayan and the standardized version of the Egyptian Mau. Mill and her first husband, Robert Sugden, were involved in a precedent-setting case about the United States governments power to monitor short wave radio communications. She authored two books, Guide to Owning a Bengal Cat (1997) and Breeding Better Bengals: Facts and Fallacies (1999). Mill married three times and had a daughter, Judy Sugden, who created a new cat breed, the Toyger. Jean Mill died on 6 June 2018 at age 92 in California. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less