The blotched (classic tabby) pattern is the most common for domestic and stray cats in the UK today. It is unclear why the classic tabby is more common than the striped (mackerel) tabby. As the domestic cat’s wild ancestor has … Continue reading →
The question is interesting because it is loosely formulated. What it is asking is can the domestic cat mate with a bobcat to create hybrid offspring and the best answer comes from Sarah Hartwell when she writes about “domestic hybrid … Continue reading →
The answer is a simple and straightforward one. The tabby pattern is the closest to the wild, or agouti, pattern, and the domestic cat is essentially a domesticated North African wildcat, which has that distinctive tabby pattern. The modern-day tabby … Continue reading →
This pair are a ginger tabby Exotic Shorthair whose name is Ollie and a smokey-white flat-faced Persian whose name is Eric. They are on Instagram. Their caretaker reassures the viewers by saying: “All dressed up for Halloween 😃 Please note … Continue reading →
Here are 6 facts about the grey tabby cat… Spelling I am dictating this. The software spells “grey” rather than “gray”. That tells you that I’m in the UK although I nearly always write about American cats! That is because … Continue reading →
A tabby cat can be any one of the following: a random bred domestic cat, a feral cat, a stray cat, a community cat or a purebred, pedigree cat and even a wild cat; all of which have or can … Continue reading →
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 →
