Tabby Cat Coat Patterns

A grey tabby can be silver grey or blue grey.

Tabby cat coat patterns. They can be black white blue calico bi colors tabby or even colorpointed. A blue calico british shorthair. Tabby m all tabbies have distinctive m on forehead. The banded background ground colour consists of hairs which are more than one colour along the hair shaft and is termed agouti.

Tabby coat markings tabby coat colors distinct color patterns with one color predominating. A tabby is any domestic cat felis catus with a distinctive m shaped marking on their forehead stripes by their eyes and across their cheeks along their back and around their legs and tail and differing by tabby type characteristic striped dotted lined flecked banded or swirled patterns on the body neck shoulders sides flanks chest and abdomen. Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. Classic tabby chocolate classic tabby aka blotched tabby ticked tabby cinnamon ticked tabby mackeral tabby red mackeral.

The mackerel tabby cat pattern the mackerel tabby is by far the most common cat coat pattern with the brown mackerel tabby being the one you ll spot the most. If you look closely at a black cat under strong lighting you may be able to see some faint tabby stripes just as a black panther has leopard spots among that ebon fur. An oo cat with a large amount of white will have bigger clearly defined patches of red cream and black blue and is called a calico. People sometimes call the average domestic cat a tabby but tabby is not a cat breed it is actually the pattern of kitty s coat.

Tabby refers to a coat pattern in cats which consists of dark swirls stripes spots superimposed on a lighter background of ticked banded fur. A tabby cat may also have white patches in the coat which can range from a small locket on the chest to white mittens on the feet to an almost solid white cat with just small spots of tabby patterned fur. There are also pointed breeds of cats in which the points have tabby markings such as the tabby point or lynx point siamese. And it happens to be the most common of all the feline coat.

Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray. Calico cats have three colors. White orange and black. The difference is that the overall pink skin tone is mixed into the cat s coat color creating a very unique look.

If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby. With intermediate amounts of white a cat may exhibit a calico pattern a tortie pattern or something in between depending on other epigenetic factors. It consists of narrow stripes that start at the dark stripe along their spines and run vertically down towards their tummies. A tabby is not a breed of cat but a coat pattern.

Bald cats come in the same variety of cat colors and patterns. Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes.