Thanks to some feral cats in Northern California, scientists now know that the same gene responsible for
giving tabby cats their wide array of bands and blotches is also responsible for a zebra's stripes and a cheetah's spots.
Not exact matches
Now, though, about 80 percent of modern domestic
cats carry a mutation that
gives a
cat a blotched
tabby coat pattern.
The Singapura as discovered by the Meadows may have resulted from matings between
cats with the Abyssinian ticked
tabby gene and the Burmese gene (which
gave the brown color).
Despite the stereotype of the aloof
tabby,
cats need to
give and receive love and attention every day.
Give the animal's breed if known or best guess (ie - for dogs, Pomeranian or Labrador Mix, or for
cats, American Shorthair
Tabby or Siamese)
Given the opportunity, most
cats — from small ones such as your
tabby to big panthers — will curl up in a warm, cozy spot and nap all day.
These
cat dental care treats permit you to
give your
tabby something tantalizing which you could each be ok with.
I have chosen a reference photograph of a young
tabby cat, which will
give me ample opportunity to really push my brush - strokes to be bold and to use heightened colour.