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 →
The cat with the most pronounced ‘ticked coat’ is the jaguarundi, a small wild cat species. The picture of a jaguarundi on this page illustrates this extraordinarily ticked coat. The cat fancy (domestic cat breeders) use the term ‘ticked’ to … Continue reading →
There are five types of tabby cat coat with many variants due to selective breeding over many years. On this page you will see illustrations of the five types of tabby coat together with full descriptions and some history.
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 →
The difference between tabby and a Maine Coon is that the former describes a coat and the latter describes a cat breed.
Continue reading →No. People ask, “are tabby cats male?”. They should ask “are red tabby cats male?”. To which the answer is: there are more male red tabby cats than female tabbies. To an informed cat owner or someone who knows cats … Continue reading →
The question, “what does tabby mean?” is asked on the Internet. I’m sure that when people are asking the question they are referring to the coat of a domestic cat. This is because the word “tabby” is most commonly heard … Continue reading →
The leopard is known for his spots. In fact they are “rosettes” (hollowed out, irregular shaped spots). Therefore a domestic cat that looks like a leopard must have spots. When a domestic cat has spots which are similar to the … Continue reading →
It can be very difficult to distinguish between torbie and tabby cats. For me, it may be almost impossible to be sure, on occasions. Ideally, you have to be a member of the cat fancy with some real experience. The … Continue reading →
