Last Updated: 1/26/2025
As though English Muffins weren't precious enough, we thought we'd add a little BLING to the breed! Since 2019, when we, My Divine Feline and Nevada Rain Cats, came up with the idea of the English Muffin, we knew we had something special. English Muffins gained in popularity because of their ultra sweet temperament, playful demeanor, and adorable round faces, short legs, and plush coats. We have seen our English Muffins go to wonderful homes all across the USA and into Mexico. We have worked hard to ensure fabulous health in our cats and now we are getting our SHIMMER line established.
This page is devoted to our SHIMMERY English Muffins. All of the kittens and adults on this page either carry the glitter gene (gl/n) or express the glitter gene (gl/gl). The glitter gene, now part of the Optimal Selection traits panel, is a gene that is most common in Bengals and Genettas. We had no idea how splendid the glittered cats were until we witnessed it first hand. Unless you have actually seen and felt a cat with a glittered coat, you can't know how absolutely phenomenal it is. Glittered cats are extremely soft. softer than any cat I've ever felt. Their coats are not just extremely soft either, glitter expressing cats shine. Each hair has microscopic mirror-like structures, like glitter, inside. I have actually placed hairs under a microscope and captured this magnificent shimmering on video. I have shared three of these short videos below.
Currently, Nevada Rain Cats and My Divine Feline, are building the foundation of our Shimmery English Muffin lines. We have several glitter carrying English Muffins and we hope that in the near future we will have litters that will produce glitter expressing English Muffin kittens. In order for a cat to express glitter, or show it, they must get the glitter gene from both of their parents. When both parents carry the glitter gene, each offspring has a 25% chance of getting the glitter gene from each parent. The SHIMMER takes multiple generations of breeding to bring it in to our English Muffins, but we are sure that once we have Shimmery English Muffins, they will be insanely popular.
Our Planned/Expected ShimmerLitters:
This page is devoted to our SHIMMERY English Muffins. All of the kittens and adults on this page either carry the glitter gene (gl/n) or express the glitter gene (gl/gl). The glitter gene, now part of the Optimal Selection traits panel, is a gene that is most common in Bengals and Genettas. We had no idea how splendid the glittered cats were until we witnessed it first hand. Unless you have actually seen and felt a cat with a glittered coat, you can't know how absolutely phenomenal it is. Glittered cats are extremely soft. softer than any cat I've ever felt. Their coats are not just extremely soft either, glitter expressing cats shine. Each hair has microscopic mirror-like structures, like glitter, inside. I have actually placed hairs under a microscope and captured this magnificent shimmering on video. I have shared three of these short videos below.
Currently, Nevada Rain Cats and My Divine Feline, are building the foundation of our Shimmery English Muffin lines. We have several glitter carrying English Muffins and we hope that in the near future we will have litters that will produce glitter expressing English Muffin kittens. In order for a cat to express glitter, or show it, they must get the glitter gene from both of their parents. When both parents carry the glitter gene, each offspring has a 25% chance of getting the glitter gene from each parent. The SHIMMER takes multiple generations of breeding to bring it in to our English Muffins, but we are sure that once we have Shimmery English Muffins, they will be insanely popular.
Our Planned/Expected ShimmerLitters:
- Dickens and Minkie have been married for around a year and we are so very pleased to announce that they finally mated and they have a litter due in late February. This is a litter of possibly only two kittens and we are definitely looking at keeping our first Shimmery English Muffin. It isn't overly likely we'll get THAT kitten with such a small litter, but it's sure possible. I'm just so glad they finally have babies coming!
- We plan to breed Oliver to Zinna and Ziona, as well as Vana in the spring of 2025. Zinna and Ziona both carry glitter, like Oliver does, so these two litters could result in Shimmery English Muffins.
- Dickens will also be crossed with Mlawa and Cocobean.
- Gili will be crossed with Hughie for almost 70% British Shorthair, possible glitter carriers in 2025.
What is Glitter? Glitter is a recessive gene, which means that cats with the shimmering or glittered coats carry two copies of the glitter gene. Cats exhibiting the glittered coats have a beautiful shimmer to their coats. The ends of their hairs are either hollow or have little microscopic mirror-like prisms in them that make them glisten. They also have amazingly soft fur. Feel free to Google it yourself, but this is an example of what the glitter looks like on a Bengal cat's coat:
Our Shimmery English Muffin
Foundation Cats
Minkie is too good to be true. She is a standard English Muffin lady who is seal golden shaded tortie mink. She carries both siamese and Burmese colorpoint which is what makes her mink and she is also tortoise shell or tortie, which means she is black golden and red. She has aqua eyes and has grown into a magnificently beautiful adult. We sent an Optimal Selection dna test off for Minkie and we are pleased to announce that Minkie is our first glitter carrying English Muffin girl we've produced and raised here at Nevada Rain. If you'd like more information on the glitter gene and what our plans are to create Shimmery English Muffins, please visit the English Muffin Kings page and look for Dickens' listing. You can view Minkie's results by clicking on the button above. We have high hopes for Minkie here at Nevada Rain. Minkie is now expecting a small litter with Dickens. We can't wait!! Our fingers are crossed that we have Shimmery English Muffins on the way now!
Status: Staying here at Nevada Rain
DOB: 1/11/23
Parents Mrozy (Silver and Golden shaded bimetallic, British Shorthair) and Sherbet (glitter carrying red mink genetta)
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Status: Staying here at Nevada Rain
DOB: 1/11/23
Parents Mrozy (Silver and Golden shaded bimetallic, British Shorthair) and Sherbet (glitter carrying red mink genetta)
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Dickens is such a prize to us at Nevada Rain. We're pretty excited to bring in our Shimmering English Muffins and Dickens is our very first glitter carrying English Muffin. Dickens is dna tested with Optimal Selection and you can view his results by clicking the button below. Dickens had his very first litter in May of 2024. He and Zaini's litter is all marbled and my goodness are they gorgeous. We have high hopes of Dickens and Minkie producing a litter in 2025.
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Zinna is absolutely staying at Nevada Rain. She is our first cinnamon golden shorty female AND she carries glitter, which makes her such a gem!! We have her DNA results back and she carries the most important genes: cinnamon, GLITTER, dilution and a copy each of agouti (tabby) and non-agouti (non-tabby or solid, like Zaini). She is also all clear for all 50 disorders tested upon by Optimal Selection. She is a standard English Muffin who is 62.5% British Shorthair. These two sisters, Zinna and Ziona, are so perfect!! Zinna also has a splendid personality. She is so sweet and loving and loves to play. She is such a perfect addition to our cattery and we can't wait to see her kittens in 2025. She could produce our very first glittered or shimmery English Muffin.
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $5300
Most recent pictures taken: 9/28/24
Parents: Zaini and Dickens
DOB: 5/6/24
Color: cinnamon golden marbled tabby
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 62.5%
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $5300
Most recent pictures taken: 9/28/24
Parents: Zaini and Dickens
DOB: 5/6/24
Color: cinnamon golden marbled tabby
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 62.5%
Ziona is PURRRRRFECT, as is her sister, Zinna. Ziona carries GLITTER, cinnamon, colorpoint, agouti/tabby, solid color, dilute, and is a standard English Muffin who is 62.5% British Shorthair. Her DNA results also indicate that she does not carry any of the tested upon disorders. We are so excited to add Ziona and her sister Zinna, to Nevada Rain's SHIMMER LINE! Ziona's DNA results are below, just click on the button! She's so gorgeous!! In 2025, Ziona will be crossed with Oliver and we have some very cool possibilities in color, shimmer and all kinds of amazing stuff possible in this litter.
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $5000
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Zaini and Dickens
DOB: 5/6/24
Color: seal marbled lynx mitted
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 62.5%
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $5000
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Zaini and Dickens
DOB: 5/6/24
Color: seal marbled lynx mitted
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 62.5%
Oliver is our very first homegrown glitter carrying English Muffin. He is such an adorable boy with a fabulously confident, playful, and sweet personality. He is a seal marbled snow lynx who carries chocolate or cinnamon, one copy of glitter, two copies of siamese colorpoint, and can also carry dilute. His dad is my favorite English Muffin boy, Paxton, and his mom is a glitter expressing super model whose name is Glitter. Both parents are genetically tested and clear for all disorders. Oliver will stay here and hopefully create some beautiful Shimmery English Muffins in 2025. Oliver will not be dna tested because we know he is clear for all disorders and he carries glitter and we will have to dna test his offspring in the future. Oliver is such a handsome, playful, silly boy. Oliver is currently rooming with Ziona, Zinna, and Vana Banana. He can father Shimmery English Muffins with Zinna and Ziona, so of course these are some very exciting litters.
Last pictures taken 10/26/24
DOB: 6/16/24
Parents: Glitter and Paxton
Color: black golden marbled/shaded point
Percentage British Shorthair: 37.5%
Last pictures taken 10/26/24
DOB: 6/16/24
Parents: Glitter and Paxton
Color: black golden marbled/shaded point
Percentage British Shorthair: 37.5%
Gili is such a perfect little lady. When I put in the order with the Man Upstairs, I ordered Gili. She is a gorgeous little glitter carrying black golden marbled shorty English Muffin. She either carries cinnamon or chocolate and carries one copy of siamese colorpoint. She also has a 50% chance of carrying dilute. Gili will stay at Nevada Rain and we are hopeful that she will produce gorgeous kittens in the future. Gili does not need to be dna tested because we know she is genetically clear for all disorders because her parents are and we know what traits she carries aside from dilute. She has the looks and the personality that makes her a perfect Nevada Rain English Muffin. Gili's a truly special kitty. She holds her tail straight up and in a question mark, like her grandma, Peeka. It's one of my favorite things. Gili is a happy, affectionate kitty and she was such a doll for her most recent pictures taken on 10/26/24. We are planning to mate Gili with Hughie in 2025. We can't imagine a cuter cross. Their offspring will be 62.5% British Shorthair.
DOB: 6/16/24
Parents: Glitter and Paxton
Color: black golden marbled/shaded
Percentage British Shorthair: 37.5%
DOB: 6/16/24
Parents: Glitter and Paxton
Color: black golden marbled/shaded
Percentage British Shorthair: 37.5%
Capulet is the only kitten in her litter. She is a non-dwarf little darling, and she is simply too perfect not to keep her. Her parents passed cinnamon, chocolate, glitter, and dilute to her and she is clear for all disorders tested upon by Optimal Selection.
Most recent pictures taken 10/26/24
DOB: 8/15/24
Parents: Juliet and Xavion
Color: chocolate golden spotted
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Most recent pictures taken 10/26/24
DOB: 8/15/24
Parents: Juliet and Xavion
Color: chocolate golden spotted
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Cliff is a silver, marbled, non-dwarf, 50% British Shorthair English Muffin male. He is from genetically clear parents for all disorders. His parents are both social butterflies who love love. Cliff is really a sweet kitty too. He's always playing and is a confident, social fellow.
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain and will be added to our Shimmery English Muffin program
Pet Price: $2200
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Joob and Daichi
DOB: 8/31/24
Color: silver marbled tabby
Gender: male
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain and will be added to our Shimmery English Muffin program
Pet Price: $2200
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Joob and Daichi
DOB: 8/31/24
Color: silver marbled tabby
Gender: male
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Wookie is a silver mitted, shorty boy we are keeping. He is the son of Poppy (silver shaded English Muffin queen) and Mookie (Glitter expressing Bengal king). He was born September 16th and carries glitter and sepia or burmese colorpoint. This guy excites me! Minks are one of my favorite colors and I don't think I've ever seen a silver mink, which this guy could produce in SHIMMER. Wookie also has exceptional personalities on both sides of his pedigree. Poppy is probably the sweetest cat I've ever had and Mookie is such a smart, goofy cat. Wookie purrrrrs like a mad man as soon as you touch him and plays and plays and plays. I adore him!! When he grows up into a gentleman king, we are excited to mate him with Harvest and Autumn, our DBE or DB/OE girls that are 75% British Shorthair and are chocolate and red golden shaded torbies (GORGEOUS!!).
Most recent photos taken 10/26/24
Percentage British Shorthair: 25%
Most recent photos taken 10/26/24
Percentage British Shorthair: 25%
Veta is a blue silver, marbled, dwarf, 50% British Shorthair English Muffin little lady. She is from genetically clear parents for all disorders. Her parents are both social butterflies who love love. We have collected this little lady's dna and sent it off to see if she carries glitter and SHE DOES!! Veta will be a key kitty in the future of our Shimmery English Muffin. Veta is a cute little dearest who will likely be crossed with Oliver or Wookie, or possibly our purebred British Shorthair king that should arrive at Nevada Rain in early 2025.
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain because she carries Glitter!!
Pet Price: $4000
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Joob and Daichi
DOB: 8/31/24
Color: blue silver marbled tabby
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain because she carries Glitter!!
Pet Price: $4000
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Joob and Daichi
DOB: 8/31/24
Color: blue silver marbled tabby
Gender: female
Percentage British Shorthair: 50%
Reba is a dreamy little superstar. She is chocolate golden spotted and she carries cinnamon and glitter. She will bring in some amazing characteristics that are absolutely where I'm headed with my Shimmery English Muffins. She is sweet, playful, smart and has all those genes I'm excited about. Reba is just a baby now, but someday she'll be mated with Cliff for possibly shimmery little muffins.
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $4400
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Metalli and Mookie
DOB: 10/10/24
Color: chocolate golden spotted tabby, possibly shaded (definitely carries cinnamon and chocolate and glitter)
Gender: female shorty
Percentage British Shorthair: 43.75%
Status: Staying at Nevada Rain
Pet Price: $4400
Most recent pictures taken: 10/26/24
Parents: Metalli and Mookie
DOB: 10/10/24
Color: chocolate golden spotted tabby, possibly shaded (definitely carries cinnamon and chocolate and glitter)
Gender: female shorty
Percentage British Shorthair: 43.75%