Gold Siberian Kittens born at Pendraig Siberians on April 23, 2011.

Golden Shaded Siberian Cat, Esenia Auric at 1 year old

We’ve had a long wait.  Many years ago as we perused websites dreaming over amazing cats from lines that seemed impossible to obtain we saw the beautiful and rare Golden Siberian Cats.  The color is mesmerizing, like a beautifully cut citrine jewel glint and gleaming every shade of gold imaginable from the faintest pale gold like ivory to shimmering warm golden between and reddish gold brilliant with it’s intensity.  The tips of the hair down the back, the end of the tail and around the face lightly tipped with inky black and the best of the best with intense, emerald green eyes.  What is not to love?

The color confuses many, though more research is finally being done and we know our belief that this is a unique genetic color will prove true.  We know gold when we see it though and we are extremely excited and proud to have our first litter of golden Siberian kittens born here at Pendraig Siberians.

We were lucky to be trusted with the beautiful and alluring Esenia Auric from the Russian Cattery Auric.  She is a bright gold with light satin paws, neck, chest and tummy and the most lovely golden hues throughout her coat.  As she matures her eyes are becoming more and more green though in these photos by Helmi Flick she had more golden eyes at one year old.

Esenia is the first cat to give us some trouble breeding with a mild pyometra (infected uterus) that we treated successfully with help from our vet and natural rearing.  Now she has been on 100% raw and robust and healthy.  She had a previous litter but was frantic and unsure and lost them due to her anxiety.  We are happy to see her not only caring for her new litter with ease but the way she loves them is most evident.  They are fat, beautiful and absolutely golden.  They are large for their age and the type is promising.  We are looking forward to watching them grow.

TGC Jorrah Karat, photo by Helmi Flick

The sire of the litter is Triple Grand Champion (TICA) Jorrah Karat.  A lovely, near golden brown spotted tabby that has gotten great notice in TICA.  He is an excellent sire producing some lovely kittens for us including a gorgeous girl we sent to Norway recently (out of Gemma).  Though this stud’s time at our cattery is coming to an end we will always carry his influence in our cattery through his amazing progeny.  These kittens are most likely his last here at Pendraig and some of his greatest.  Two stunning golden tabby Siberian kittens have join Pendraig Siberians as Litter “R”.

Now to introduce our lovely Golden Siberian Kittens.

Pendraig Rhys Emrys, Golden Siberian Kitten (1 week old)

The male is a bit bigger, with a slightly more dramatic shade to his coat though we know this changes much from now to when they are adults.  He has a lovely muzzle, wide head and big boning that is not always found in the golden lines.  He takes the best from both parents though at just a week we can not even begin to see his promise.  We have named him Rhys, a name of kings in Wales.  He will carry the surname for our goldens, Emrys “golden shining one” and in some stories the surname of Merlin known in Welsh as “Myrddin Emrys”.  Meet Pendraig Rhys Emrys, “prince” of our cattery.

The darling girl is exquisite.  Just a tad smaller, which is normal

Pendraig Rhosyn Emrys, Golden Siberian Kitten (1 week old)

for girls, she is almost the mirror image of her brother.  she has just a slightly different shade to her golden, a richer and darker golden perhaps.  She has a promising coat and lovely boning for a girl.  We have high hopes for her and cannot wait to meet whichever new family decides to adopt her.  We have named her Rhosyn (a modern Welsh name for “Rose”).  She too will carry our golden surname.  Meet Pendraig Rhosyn Emrys the golden Siberian kitten available to a new home.