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The earliest Maine Coons were mostly brown tabbies and the brown tabby Maine Coon is still the most common pattern found today. So yout cat is a domestic shorthair, with ticked tabby markings. There are several types of tabby markings, which occur in a number of breeds as well as being very common ont he larger domestic cat population. Tabby is a colour/coat pattern and not a breed. Let's see what's to learn about these strikingly beautiful cats. Tabbies are categorized as such because of their color and markings and may be of any breed or mix, shape or size. In fact, it is said that all felines possess the tabby cat gene. The Tabby is not a specific breed of cat. The length of the coat is often a distinct enough factor to help identify which mix of cat you might have.Ĭat breeds tabby mix. Many often begin their search starting with longhair or shorthair breeds. Tabby Cat Once you know the basic telltale characteristics of your cat, you can search through different breeds to see what your pet might be a mix of. The Bengal is a hybrid breed of domestic cat. It’s very energetic and fun loving and will have many interests for you to pursue as well as plenty of playtime. If you are looking for an active and inquisitive pet with an innate curiosity to explore new things and places, then the mix is for you. The Bengal cat has a great many characteristics, one of them being the Bengal Tabby Mix Personality. 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). I will post a few photos of her but I'll make a new reply because last time I posted too many photos in one message they wouldn't all show up.The four known distinct patterns, each having a sound genetic explanation, are the mackerel, classic, ticked and spotted tabby patterns.
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Ticked means they have 'ticking' and not stripes like a mackerel would have. If we were in CFA instead she would probably be called a ticked patched tabby with white I guess as I know CFA calls them "patched tabbies" instead, but that is quite a mouthful to say! She is actually a ticked torbie instead of a mackerel torbie like her sisters so her color name (at least in TICA where she shows as HHP) is brown ticked torbie & white. Harlequin was the only female I ended up keeping from their litter, she's the one who has the white. (I find it interesting how the paw pad colors are different, it's hard to tell there, but one middle toe is pink and the other dark brown) The other had this interesting pattern on one foot: One of them had a "split color" foot like yours: The two in the middle in this photo, Harlequin and Rosalie, are torbies, the two on the top and bottom are their brothers who are tabbies.Īnd the other torbie in the litter, Tiger: Of course the one that has white, her paws are just white so she doesn't have that. The two that did not have white also had paws like that. Click to expand.She looks a LOT like some of the kittens from a litter I rescued several years ago who were brown torbie, aka brown patched tabby or if you want to get technical brown mackerel torbie or brown mackerel patched tabby (mackerel refers to them having the tabby stripes).