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Silverstorm bengals We are a TICA registered, award winning cattery, specializing in silver Bengal cats since 2005.
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18/04/2025

Hoping for Easter babies from our beautiful Gaia 🐣

25/03/2025

Here are my last two kittens of 2024, both from the stunning Silverstorm Troopers first litter with Silver Sprite. Two beautiful silver girls now happy in their new home in Northern Ireland.
They have exceeded my expectations with crystal clear , completely untarnished coats, and heavily glittered. Not to mention wild type and heads.
One of these girls is extra special (first 7 photos). When she was born I thought she was a smoke (silver Melanistic) as she was so dark, but slowly as weeks passed parts of her body started to lighten until her pattern was revealed .
And what a surprise! One side of her body has big black rosettes and markings merging a little with each other. The other side looks as if silver paint has been spilt over her shoulder and runs the other side of her body so just dots of the black underneath show through.
In discussion with other breeders we decided her highly unusual pattern and colouring may be the result of ‘ Pseudo-melanism’.
Pseudomelanism, is a pigmentation variant where the normal tabby markings (spots, stripes) are unusually dense and merge, resulting in a cat that appears melanistic (solid black).
Pseudomelanism is thought to be a result of intensified tabby markings, not a lack of colour, however the gene that causes it has not yet been identified in domestic cats.
Cats with pseudomelanism can appear almost entirely black, with the exception of potentially some lighter underparts or markings.
She was darker as a kitten but not now so maybe this highly unusual kitten could be the result of Mosaicism?
Mosaicism is it’s caused by a chromosomal mutation in one cell during the embryo’s very early development. The mutation is replicated as that cell divides, and then replicated in the divided cells, and so on, so that when the organism has finished developing into a baby, part of its body contains the mutation while the rest doesn’t. The part of the body with the mutation has a different genetic profile from the rest of the body.
Another suggestion is that she could be a rare Chimera.
With a Chimera you start with two egg cells that should develop into fraternal twins—but for some reason, in those very first hours when each egg cell has only divided a few times, the egg cells fuse together. The cells continue to divide and develop into not two babies, but one that contains the genetic markers for both twins.
Since the resulting single baby has genes for both twins, sometimes it will show physical traits of both , hence her very different sides!

14/02/2025

Be my Valentine 💝

20/12/2024

It’s not looking like Christmas 2024 will be a white one this year here in Wales, so here is a little Silverstorm snow for you instead!
Wishing everyone a very Happy and peaceful Christmas and new year 🎄⭐️

28/11/2024

Silverstorm Empress is such a beauty! You can see her coat shining with glitter.
Empress lives in Canada and is enjoying a stroll on her cat wheel 🍁🇨🇦

10/11/2024

Silverstorm Silver Lining aged 6 months and 7 1/2 .
She is a very big girl now and highly glittered which reflects the light when photographed.

31/10/2024

Happy Haloween! This is Silverstorm Zaza who now lives in California , just look at those fangs!
Did you know that Halloween has its origins 2000 years ago in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.
Traditionally, the Celts regarded Samhain (pronounced "SAH-win") as one of the most important holidays of the year, one that marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
Samhain was of great significance for the Celt people, who believed that at this time of year, the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead was at its thinnest.
As the Celts bid farewell to the harvest season's bounty and prepared for the long winter ahead, they held a feast in silence and darkness in honor of those who had passed on.
On Samhain, it was believed that the Cat Sith (maybe also where Star Wars got the name for their dark Jedi lords!!) a Celtic fairy creature that was said to resemble a large black cat would bless any house that left a saucer of milk out for it to drink. Likewise, the Cat Sith cursed those houses that did not leave out a saucer of milk. The association of cats with Samhain likely also carried over into Halloween.

25/10/2024

Wild child ❤️

08/10/2024

Silverstorm Trooper 1 1/2 years old. He is really started to put on muscle now and such a lovely long body. He is a sweetheart like his dad Otto 🩶

07/10/2024

Head in the Clouds and Leopards glittered silver girls and golden boy 6 weeks.

03/10/2024

Some beautiful little faces to share with you from my latest silver girls and little golden boy!
Some nice wide nose bridges, small ears and puffy whisker pads .
Which is your favourite?

13/09/2024

Silverstorm Pacha cuddling his best friend Inca ❤️

09/09/2024

Congratulations to Kieran, family and the stunning Silverstorm Nighttain for achieving TICA Best Black Silver Charcoal Spotted Tabby for 2024!
So proud of this boy. Silverstorm Nighttrain is a stud boy and lives at Mystic Aura Bengals in Sydney Australia.

22/08/2024

Silverstorm Orion aged 5 weeks

07/08/2024

Silverstorm Sirius aged 5 weeks

25/07/2024

A few photos of Panther and Titawines gorgeous babies; Silverstorm Orion , Sirius and Aurora. Aurora is reserved and the boys are currently on hold for my waiting list.
We are looking forward to watching these little ones grow 🐾

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