Tabby Cat Patterns

This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat.
Tabby cat patterns. Sometimes called a tiger cat mackerel tabbies have one solid dark stripe along their spine with. A mackerel tabby has narrow stripes that run in parallel down her sides. The classic tabby has stripes on their face and head with swirls of darker color on a lighter base. Breeds that accept the tabby pattern.
A grey tabby can be silver grey or blue grey. A fifth pattern is formed by any of the four basic patterns when part of a patched pattern a patched tabby then is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with patches of tabby coat such cats are called caliby and torbie respectively in cat fancy. Brown this has a warm brown or bronze background with the tabby pattern in black. Each can have either mackerel classic or ticked tabby patterns meaning 66 possible tabby variations from these colors alone.
The body has narrow. Tabby in the. What cat breeds can have the tabby coat pattern. Brown and white as for the brown but with white on the bib tummy and all four paws.
Tabby cat colour and pattern genetics tabby cat coat variants. The classic tabby has bold swirling patterns along his sides much like a marble cake. The 5 tabby cat patterns 1. All about tabby cats and their color patterns types of tabby patterns.
9 types of tabby cat colors patterns 1. As mentioned many breeds accept the tabby pattern in one variation or another. They can be brown grey orange or yellow but they must be striped. Abyssinian american bobtail american curl american shorthair american wirehair australian mist bengal british shorthair cornish rex devon rex egyptian mau exotic maine coon munchkin ocicat oriental persian scottish fold scottish shorthair siamese.
A tabby is not a breed of cat but a coat pattern. There are four basic variants of the tabby coat pattern and to say that a cat is tabby refers. The four known distinct patterns each having a sound genetic explanation are the mackerel classic ticked and spotted tabby patterns.