Striped tabby cats are also called mackerel tabbies in reference to the skin of the fish by the same name. This is the ancient type of tabby pattern close to the one we see in the ancestral wild cat species. … Continue reading →
Tabby cats are called tabby cats because of the description of their coat which is derived from the name of watered silk called ‘Atabi’ from the Attabiah district of Baghdad, Iraq. The silk has a similar appearance to the mackerel tabby coat.
Continue reading →The agouti cat color refers, in fact, to a coat pattern; a type of cat coat and in fact the most common cat coat. The word “agouti” is the name given to a coat in which individual hair strands are … Continue reading →
This is very much in brief. The video below summarises in layperson’s language quite a technical research document published on the Nature Ecology and Evolution website. The ancient history of the domestic cat is quite well-known but if you watch … Continue reading →
This is a Helmi Flick cat photo special – mind you most of them are special. She describes these beauties as 12-week old Maine Coon kittens. She also says that to these cats are brown classic tabby males while the … Continue reading →
Is this the world’s biggest domestic tabby cat? He is also a poly cat. You can see the original on Pinterest. The picture is genuine. The person holding the cat is not an adult which probably helps to explain the … Continue reading →
First we need to just restate what is in fact not stated that often, that the wild cats have tabby coats. And the classic moggie tabby we see all time has the same gene that creates the tabby coat that … Continue reading →
This is mom, dad and kitten all looking amazing in a classic Helmi Flick photograph. Helmi calls them The Brown Tabby Family. This is no Maine Coon ordinary family. They were raised at Koonary Maine Coons. At the date of … Continue reading →
