Starting a tabby cat thread...

[KamaAina]

[triguy46]

1. The only pic we have of our current mama cat. She's got another batch cooking.

[Roon]

2. I don't have a picture of him, but I had a tabby when I was a kid..

his name was Radar.

[TZ]

3. Are you biased agaisnt non-tabby cats?

One of my grey cats has faint tabby stripes and rings on her tail....but I don't have any good pictures that show it..;-)

[KamaAina]

16. No, just rather fond of tabbies

My first, at age 10, was a gray tabby named Elizabeth. Later we had Sean, a friendly, mellow and playful orange tabby.

Then there was this guy I worked for years ago. I tried to describe a co-worker's (also named Sue!) cat to him. Merri was a calico, but with patches of gray tabby where the black would normally be. So the guy asks, "What's a calico?" Uh, okay, he went to prep school in England, so maybe he thinks it's called "tortoiseshell".

Then he asked, "What's a tabby?" Nope. The guy's just a complete :dunce: . From that point forward he was affectionately known as "the Little Dunce" (he stood only about 5'6").

Besides, the thread was, literally, a copycat: last night there were threads titled "Starting a copy cat thread..." and "Starting a 'fraidy cat thread...". All that was needed was another cat modifier ending in -y.

Bonus tabby trivia: The name "tabby" comes from a neighborhood in Baghdad called Attabiya, which we've presumably bombed to rubble by now, so as to keep freedom on the march, you see. Attabiya was once known for producing a striped cloth, which in Britain was known as "tabbi silk". Eventually "tabby" came to be applied to striped cats, much as "calico" did to patched ones.

edit: spelling

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The Most Excellent Tabby Cat Jeoffry.

[KT2000]

36. What an elegant cat!

wow - he's beautiful!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. Jeoffry thanks you!

[ThomCat]

40. That is a beautiful picture of a beautiful cat.

:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

45. He is a handsome devil, isn't he?

He's a long, slender kitty with elegant lines. Even the vet thought he was a beauty.

[nuxvomica]

5. 10-month-old ginger tabbies

I took these pictures of the brothers this morning.

Tommy


Huckleberry

[Rhiannon12866]

6. What beautiful kitties and obviously very much cared for.

And you are an excellent photographer, but I imagine that they came up with the perfect poses by themselves.;)

[nuxvomica]

15. They are tough photo subjects

They think the camera is just another thing to bat at.

[Rhiannon12866]

37. Aren't all cats like that? LOL.

Especially kittens...;)

My pup has already learned to expect the flash. When I think that I have a very cute pic lined up, he turns his head at the last minute to avoid the flash...:-(

[Haole Girl]

7. "Pumpkin"

[grasswire]

12. oooh I want to squeeze Pumpkin

What a dear looking cat.

[Haole Girl]

13. lol! I have the same problem...

and, believe me when I tell you-- she does not like to be squeezed!!

[Skittles]

8. I love the "mark of the spider" on their foreheads

yes INDEED

[KamaAina]

42. I used to think that the "M" on the forehead meant that all tabbies were mine

seeing as how my true and actual name is "Mark". Sort of like a cattle brand, except it doesn't hurt them.

[auntAgonist]

9. here is my Rogue

and Rogue with Rascal

[meow2u3]

10. Ruby cleaning herself

[auntAgonist]

14. she's very pretty

:hi:

aA

[meow2u3]

21. She just had kittens Wednesday

I haven't gotten the pics yet--don't have access to a camera--but they will be up ASAP. BTW, all the kittens are tabbies, too.

[auntAgonist]

22. I will look forward to seeing the pictures. My rogue

looks pregnant but HE isn't :rofl: He's just huge. He weighs 21lbs. I often wonder if he is part maine coon.

aA
:hi:

[Archae]

11. Erin, my 3-year old tabby male.

TOTAL lap spud. :loveya:

[Maestro]

17. Here is my grey tabby.

And she is such the talker!

[huskerlaw]

18. Ok!

Spencer:


Riley:

[Orsino]

19. Here are my current tabbies, from a couple of weeks ago.

Madeleine and Rosie:





His Imperial Majesty, Chester I, in the new royal digs:

[pengillian101]

28. Your cats have their own room???

Wow - talk about pampered - lucky kitties!

[Silver Swan]

20. Here is Buff.

[pink-o]

23. sabotage

Hee Hee...

Well, my Bombay here has a ginger tabby best friend, but I haven't been able to get a pic of him. So you're stuck with her!

[KamaAina]

31. I'm rubber, you're glue. Bounces off me, sticks to you.

All I see is a red X. In the words of the immortal Nelson Muntz, "Ha-ha!"

Oh, wait a minute, I'm missing out on a Bombay. D'oh! My all-time favorite cat Kwan Yin had a similar background, except Dad was Tonkinese (Siamese/Burmese cross) and Mom was a white rather than a black domestic shorthair. Does yours photograph well? Kwanny did not; she was such a shiny matte black that all you got was a picture of a couch or whatever with a cat-shaped hole in it, and two glowing eys inside the hole!

[pink-o]

34. She's not a pure Bombay, she's got a bit of white in her hair

...me too, but for a different reason! Anyway, the pic depends on the background, I have gotten some like what you're talking about--complete negative spacing. The next Bombay I have I'll name "Rory" for a Rorschach ink blot.

I'll try to find a postable pic. I could get an image, but I had to click the "x" to see it. I'll try again, cuz she's worth it!

[devilgrrl]

24. My late great Calvin

How I miss him. :cry:

[zanne]

25. Here's my bobtail tabby cat...

She's chatty, klutzy and verrrrry sweet.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

26. This is old. They are twice this size and only 8 months old

[badgerpup]

27. If I had a camera...

I could show you my 'undercover' tabby boy Riktor.

He's a black cat, but in some lights, you can see the tabby lines in his fur...mostly on his sides (he's mackeral striped) and the rings on his tail.
The fur on top of his head also has textural differences which correspond to tabby markings.

White Wimsey has very faint rings on his tail in certain lights...and my sweet Feegley-baby was a marble or 'classic' tabby beneath his glossy black coat.

http://cats.about.com/cs/tabbycats/a/tabby_cats.htm

[Phillycat]

29. My sweet darling, Prince Charming...

As a kitten...



With me, when he was still pretty much a baby...



Now...

[SeattleGirl]

30. Miss Kitty, The Queen of the Universe

[triguy46]

32. NO one has a tabby like this little trickster....

[DainBramaged]

33. My old man Picasso

[bridgit]

35. Tim says, "Do what you think you have to, but all ur clickers r still mine."

[MissHoneychurch]

38. Does he count as tabby?

[Perry Logan]

39. Lovely pix. I still mourn my grey tabby, the redoubtable Mishe.

Sorry I don't have any good photos of her. Must stay calm.

[Wcross]

41. My twin brothers "Chairman Meow" & "Flea Taxi".

[Rhiannon12866]

43. Beautiful cats! Reminds me of the first cat I loved, Skippy, who belonged to my grandmother.

I adored him, couldn't wait to see him, but he hated me, as a little kid, and I don't blame him. :-( Do your cats have any white? Skippy had a white chest, so you could see him from far off, even in the dark. He was a great personality, but older than me, at the time, and older than most on this board... *sigh* Thanks for the memories and the great pic of your lovely boys. :loveya:

[Wcross]

46. No white on them at all.

They are really friendly cats though.