Tabby Cat Colors And Patterns

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Tabby cat colors and patterns. The wild type in african wildcats is the mackerel tabby stripes look like thin fishbones and may break up into bars or spots the most common variant is the classic tabby pattern broad bands whorls and spirals of dark color on pale background usually with bulls eye or oyster pattern on flank and perhaps the most well known of the less common tabby patterns is the ticked. Calico cats have three colors. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby. This is similar to the black tabby cat pattern.

They may or may not have white fur on their faces. Technically speaking no matter what colors or markings you see on your cat all felines possess the tabby cat gene. From the ancient egyptian days came the first legend about this unique marking. Turkish van six tabby patterns colors probably the most distinctive feature seen in common on all tabby cats is the m on their foreheads.

Classic tabbies also called blotched tabbies have a combination of stripes swirls blotches and. You will also see this m on many of the big jungle cats such as tigers cheetahs and ocelots. Striped tabbies are often referred to as tiger for obvious reasons. Tabby cats constitute the oldest and most common pattern seen and are one of the most popular.

Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. Other cat colors or patterns may hide those tabby markings but they re always. Darker spots stripes or whorls on a lighter brown background. Tabby coat colors distinct color patterns with one color predominating.

Brown patched brown torbie the brown patched tabby has a coppery brown background color and the tabby pattern is black with patches of red. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed. The tabby pattern occurs in twelve colours which are black based or red based and their dilutes and dilute modifiers which change the shape of the melanin granules or make them clump together. Common color patterns tabbies.

Brown patched and white brown and white torbie the same as the brown patched tabby but with white fur on their bibs bellies and all four paws. Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. They are easily differentiated by their stripes whorls and spots the latter generally found on their tummies. Brown patched brown torbie or brown tabby cat the background color is a coppery brown whilst the tabby pattern is black with patches of red.