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Is my kitten a tabby??
- Thread starter dracul
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He definitely has some Maine Coon in his blood. The big nose and huge ears give it away. Is he a medium hair? He is so adorable. I like male cats more than females because they have that oh so cute face! No offence to the girls, your all cute too!
What a cutie! Definitely a tabby!
From here it looks like he's a mackeral tabby! Any more pictures?
So if the marking characteristic of a tabby is the M pattern on their head would Isis be a tabby, even though she's an Egyptian Mau? She has little Ms on the top of her head. I have been confused with the classification of tabbies, torties, and others.
All cats have tabby markings! Even black cats have faint tabby markings. Egyptian Maus are tabbies, they are just a purebred tabby. Calico's are white with orange and black dots everywhere, torties are black and it looks like they have orange paint brushed on their coats!
Eqyptian Mau is your baby's breed. Tabby is her coat pattern. So you can have Torti Persians, or Tabby Maus, or Bi-Color Munchkins, etc.
Ahhhh okay! Now that makes sense! I didn't grow up with cats and those with cats always said their cats were tabbies. I never really thought about it, I just assumed that a tabby was either a gray or orange striped cat. It wasn't until Isis came into our home that I actually started looking at different breeds and when it referred to tabbies it never was extremely specific. Now I understand. Thanks.
Errrrr Tasha! Maybe you meant all cats CAN be Tabby not all cats are because my red self persian is definitly not a tabby nor my white persian, ..., I
Mau's especially the smoke ones!, You can get MANY MANY variaties(sp?) of tortie... Brown, blue, red and black
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Sam
Sam
Yes, he looks like a tabby, but tabby doesnt mean a purebred. Tabby is a color pattern, there are four tabby types; mackerel (striped), classic (swirls), spotted, and ticked. Most domestic shorthair (mixed breed) cats are tabbies because its easy for them to take camoflauge with stripes or spots. A lot of our breeds can be tabbies too!
Yes your kitty is sure a tabby!!
