Sentences with phrase «of tabbies»

Are some of their tabbies looking a little flabby?

Cats are particularly portly; about 55 percent of tabbies are tubby, says the...

Considerations included the total number of tabbies in town receiving quality care provided by, American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) hospitals, emergency and critical care specialists, boarded veterinary behavior specialists, internal medicine specialists, and members of the American Association of Feline Practitioners.

Maybe the width of a tabby cat's soft, striped ear.

The first observations of Tabby's star flickering in real time have put the last nails in the «it's - an - alien - megastructure» coffin.

Rather than being caused by extraterrestrial construction, the bizarre dimming of Tabby's star could instead be due to a closely orbiting, ringed planet

Big cats or wolves seem like scaled - up versions of the tabby or terrier sleeping on your sofa.

The team believes a dip in 2011, which reduced the brightness of Tabby's star by up to 15 per cent, can be explained by a massive ringed planet five times the size of Jupiter transiting in front of it.

An alien megastructure could not be the reason behind the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star.

radio signal in 1977 (the signal's source remains disputed); the 1996 announcement of fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite; the strange behavior of Tabby's Star reported in 2015; and 2017's discoveries of exoplanets that exist within distant habitable zones.

Any object larger than dust particles would dim all wavelengths of light equally when passing in front of Tabby's Star.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

These are the words of Tabby Sapene, author of Mental Alchemy: Spiritual Affirmations to Change Your Life.

Some of the kittens are born with so - called «ghost stripes» that bear evidence of a tabby gene that all cats carry.

The very first thing you need to establish is the elimination routine of your tabby.

The coat pattern may be tabby, bicolor, tortoiseshell, shaded or a combination of tabby and tortoiseshell.

These may be in any of the tabby colors.

The mission of Tabby Tales Rescue, Inc. is to provide for the adoption of rescued cats into loving and responsible homes.

Wellington veterinarian Chad Zadina, of Tabby Road Animal Hospital, likes to be on the cutting edge when it comes to treating his patients — animals large and small.

Cats with ticked coat markings do not display the usual stripes, blotches or swirls of the tabby pattern and do not at first glance seem to be tabby cats at all.

The background color of tabby cats is ticked, this is most obvious in brown / black tabbies.

That's why it's important to know about the main types of tabby cats, so you can quickly identify your cat apart from the many other tabbies that look the same!

As well as the various permutations of tabby / silver tabby / golden tabby, spotted / silver spotted / golden spotted there are some terms specific to the modified tabby markings and specific colourways of certain breeds.

It's a term given to the horizontally aligned swirling of the tabby pattern in certain breeds.

I was particularly intrigued by the repeat image of a tabby cat, walking in thin air on its own tail, that seemed like a neat metaphor for semantic acrobatics.

There is also a whitened remnant of a dwelling, made of tabby, a mix of lime and seashells invented by Spalding, used for construction by the slaves.

In collaboration with the SCAD preservation design program, the artist created a site - specific installation made of tabby — a southern, vernacular building material comprised of lime, sand and shells.

Not exact matches

The trajectory of the beloved, green - eyed tabby shows the unique path being tread by animated characters in our digital era.

«I could barely see a couple feet ahead of me because the fog was so thick, and this little, tiny, must have been 4 - 6 pound tabby kitten, started running alongside me in the fog at like a 10 minute per mile pace, for like a mile and a half.»

According to Brown, the Bengals changed from tabby cats to tigers in about 11 seconds, or as long as it took Lemar Parrish to run 95 yards against the Buffalo Bills in the eighth game of the 1970 season.

We live with our older orange tabby cat named Samson, who is full of personality and affection.

Tabitha has a beautiful quirky charm to it which should not be overlooked even if it's nickname, Tabby, is too reminiscent of your next door neighbours cat.

My home is the home of Kate, a 9 - year - old brown tabby who would rather sleep than play.

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

Now, thanks to a $ 107,000 Kickstarter fund and the work of more than 200 scientists, researchers know it's not extraterrestrials, but space dust that's causing the erratic and extreme dips in brightness around Tabby's star.

The star, nicknamed «Tabby's star,» attracted attention earlier this fall after researchers noticed that it fluctuates in brightness as though surrounded by a mass of material.

The articles in the pilot study focused on the 1996 discovery of possibly fossilized extraterrestrial Martian microbes; the 2015 discovery of periodic dimming around Tabby's Star, thought to indicate the presence of an artificially constructed «Dyson sphere;» and the 2017 discovery of Earth - like exoplanets in the habitable zone of a star.

Tabby's star is most famous for suddenly dropping in brightness by up to 22 percent over the course of a few days (SN Online: 2/2/16).

KIC 8462852 or «Tabby's star» has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.

About 80 percent of modern cats carry this tabby mutation.

Tabby's star's odd blinking and fading has been put down to alien signals and swarms of comets, but devouring a planet could explain everything

Identification of both the IQCB1 gene in the African black - footed cat and the NCP1 in the silver tabby will help to diagnose other cats and allow them to receive appropriate treatment.

This ASAS - SN image is just a small portion of the sky, but shows how Tabby's star is one of millions.

A massive ringed planet and a swarm of asteroids may instead explain Tabby's star

The biologist shares the first floor of a schoolhouse - turned - laboratory with other visiting scientists, students and an unwelcome orange tabby cat.

«Tabby's Star: Alien megastructure not the cause of dimming of the «most mysterious star in the universe».»

Tumbling out onto the floor, grappling a packet of sweet - and - sour pork, is the station's resident house cat, an orange tabby named Pixel O'Neill.

Our feline friends are only interested in one thing: meat (except for saving up the energy to catch it by napping, or a round of restorative petting) This is not just because inside every domestic tabby lurks a killer just waiting to catch a bird or torture a mouse, it is also because cats lack the ability to taste sweetness, unlike every other mammal examined to date.

The upside of all the public attention, Wright says, is that it has lured many astronomers to work on Tabby's Star «precisely because all the «aliens» talk annoyed them, and they wanted to find a natural explanation.»

Because Tabby's star has cultivated such an air of mystery, the response to its new dimming has been quick and enthusiastic, with some telescope observations of the star already planned over the next few days.