The tabby coat colour on cat can be incredibly varied! The "Tabby" term means dark markings (stripes, swirls, spots) on a paler background. The stripe colour is solid (goes right to the hair root), but the background colour is banded with colour on each individual hair.
Here are just some of the many colours:
Abyssinian
American Bobtail
American Curl
American Shorthair
American Wirehair
Angora
Asian Shorthair
Asian Semi-Longhair
Balinese
Bengal
Birman
Bombay
British Angora
British Shorthair
Burmese
Burmilla
California Spangled Cat
Chantilly/Tiffany
Chartreux
Chausie
Cherubim
Colorpoint Longhair
Colorpoint Shorthair
Cornish Rex
Cymric
Devon Rex
Egyptian Mau
Exotic Shorthair
Havana Brown
Himalayan
Honeybear
Japanese Bobtail
Javanese
Korat
LaPerm
Longhair
Maine Coon
Malayan
Manx
Munchkin
Nebelung
Norwegian Forest Cat
Ocicat
Ojos Azules
Oriental Longhair
Oriental Shorthair
Persian
Pixie Bob
Ragamuffin
Ragdoll
Russian Blue
Scottish Fold
Selkirk Rex
Siamese
Siberian
Singapura
Snowshoe
Somali
Sphynx
Sterling
Tiffanie
Tiffany
Tonkinese
Traditional (Applehead) Siamese
Turkish Angora
Turkish Van
York Chocolate
There are 4 types of tabbies - the Classic Tabby, the Mackerel Tabby, the Spotted Tabby and the Ticked Tabby.
There are about 5 types of tabby coat patterns each possessing its own unique markings. but there are 4 basic types of tabby, (ticked, mackerel, classic and spotted.)
On average, 2 or 3.
Tabby cats are incredibly common. The tabby coat pattern can be found on many breeds of cat, but is particularly common in moggies/Domestic Shorthairs.
Yes Tabby cats rock...they are the best
No, tabby cats are not a separate breed themselves. Many different cat breeds can have tabby pelts. If your cat is a large tabby, it probably came from a breed of cats that is larger than others, such as the Maine Coon. But there are many tabby cats that are small too, like the Munschkin.
Black is a color, not a breed. Many cat breeds can be black. Certain cat breeds come in specific colors such as Siamese, and they would not be black if they were purebred but any breed that comes in various colors could be black. Siamese cats are also a tabby variety of solid clors and the tortoise shell. Any Siamese is a tabby, but not all tabby's are Siamese.
Tabby is an incredibly common coat pattern found in cats, particularly in Domestic Short or Long hairs, or "moggies."
Tabby cats
My red tabby is the playfulest of my three cats
No, Tabby is a coat pattern
You can determine if a tabby cat is male or female by its color. Ginger tabby cats tend to be male while tortoiseshell tabby cats are female.
Not at all. The Tabby pattern is probably the most common coat pattern found on domestic cats.
No, I have personally had female orange tabby cats.
Tabby is a naturally-occurring color pattern within cats. It has developed on its own over time, and while humans may have encouraged it by breeding cats for the tabby patter, it originally came from nature.