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 have a certain type of coat. That coat is the original domestic cat coat …
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. The word ‘tabby’ is thought to be derived from ‘Atabi’, type of silk manufactured …
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.
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 colored with bands of black, brown and yellow. The resulting overall appearance is the …
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 the video you will note that there were two strands or waves in the …
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 other two are brown classic torbie females (tell the difference?!). “Torbie” (tortoiseshell-tabby) means the …
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 size comparison but despite that this cat is huge. The cat is a classic, …
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 is carried by the glamorous Bengal wild cat hybrid and the rare designer cat …
