Garfield – after the most famous tabby in the world.Firefly – for a very fast orange tabby.Earl Grey – amazing name for a grey tabby.Creamsicle – great name for an orange and white tabby.Comet – perfect name for a striped tabby.Colby Jack – great tabby name for a classic tabby.Cheshire – after the grey tabby in Aline in Wonderland.Cheetah – great name for a striped and fast cat.Checkers – beautiful name for a tabby with this pattern.Camo – for the cat with a camouflage pattern.Butterscotch – this name is great for an orange tabby.Agouti – for a cat with a ticked pattern.We’ll start with boy kittens, since males are more likely to have a tabby cat coat pattern than females (although it’s a myth that ONLY males have this coat). You may also love: 100 Magnificent Mountain Cat Names for Your New Kitty Tabby Cat Names for Males One has long hair and looks very much like the marmalade pictured.Looking for some brilliant tabby cat names for your new kitten?īelow, we’re checking out 100 terrific ideas, split between males & females. Two of the boys are black and white – no tabby markings – and the other two are orange tabby. I also have a young mommy (calico) and her 4 boys. Right now I have a very senior lady that has wide bands of orange and white, not like a tabby at all – but she has the M on her forehead that all tabbies have. I had a little girl that was a solid gray, but when the sun hit her fur, you could see some reddish stripes. His fur had the color banding on each individual hair. MY Thomas was a long-haired tabby, also a combination of grays, silver and tan. She was said to be a “bullseye” tabby, as she had stripes in big spirals on her sides. JJ was mostly a gray with silver and tan in her stripes. The Science Behind the Fur: What Makes Black Cats Black?.
Cat Genetics: Facts on 6 Unusual Coat Colors and Patterns.7 Genes that Control Your Cat’s Fur Color.Siouxsie: If you want to learn some cool stuff about the genetics behind cat fur, check out these articles Mama wrote for Catster: Thomas: Almost every cat breed carries the tabby gene, even Siamese cats!īella: After looking at all these tabby cat pictures, what color tabby do you think Thomas is? Give us your guesses in the comments and tell us about the tabby cats you’ve known and loved. Again, this pattern isn’t common in regular cats, but Bengals, Savannahs and Ocicats have spotted tabby coats. Siouxsie: And the spotted tabby looks a lot like a wild cat. You don’t see this pattern much in regular domestic cats, but the Abyssinian is a great example of a ticked tabby. I see a lot more mackerel tabbies than blotched tabbies!īella: The ticked tabby has bands of stripes on each individual fur. I don’t know why they’re so classic and mackerel tabbies aren’t. Those cats are called classic or blotched tabbies. Thomas: Some tabbies have big, wide stripes that form round shapes on their sides. Siouxsie: Speaking of stripes, tabby cats with narrow stripes like Thomas are called mackerel tabbies or “tiger cats” back in New England where we came from. Thomas: Why? Are you embarrassed to have stripes? Are stripes embarrassing to you? *sniffle*īella: Oh, Thomas, of course not! I just like the idea of being a black cat, that’s all. In the bright sunlight, you can see Bella’s stripes.
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