These two
classic tabby cats in the video below are having a mutual grooming session, which often turns into play fighting.
Personally, I love the look of some of these cats, but I also think that other cats, such as
classic tabby cats can be just as striking, without any of the controversy or potential problems.
Not exact matches
June Bug is a beautiful
classic brown
tabby cat who purrs often and likes to gently pat her people on the face and leg.
An admitted sucker for
classic tabbies, she shares her home with her
cats, all of whom were rescues and require continued medical attention.
Some people suggest that mackerel
tabbies should have been called
classic, because their coat pattern was the original, and more reminiscent of the domestic
cats origins.
Available in a variety of about 75 different color combinations (with the exception of pointed pattern and colors) and two acceptable
tabby patterns (
classic and mackerel), there is a Maine Coon
Cat just right for anyone.
At a CFA show today you might see these
cats in other solid colors, such as black, blue, red and cream; in tortoiseshell or blue - cream; in
classic, mackerel and spotted
tabbies of many colors; and bi-colored
cats in any of these colors with white.
Marbled also occurs in a different form in the Bengal (above) through the interaction of wild - type spotting (from the Leopard
Cat ancestor) and domestic - type
classic tabby.
Meanwhile, in the California Toyger breed, the mackerel
tabby pattern has been selectively refined into a more tiger - like pattern of thin but solid stripes (sometimes called candle - flames) which do not break up, while in red self Persians, the
classic tabby pattern has been refined to coalesce and to mask the background colour as far as possible in order to create the illusion of a «solid red»
cat.
They analysed DNA samples from feral
cats in northern California and the DNA of cheetahs, including samples from the blotched «king cheetah» (a recessively inherited «
classic tabby» version of the cheetah).