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To really like tabby cats

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Thetelly8 · 24/12/2025 23:49

My favourite type of cat

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TheGoodOnesAreAllGone · 25/12/2025 16:38

My mini tiger and ginger pest

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Whiskeyandkittens · 25/12/2025 16:12

Some gorgeous tabbies 😻 We have a selection but a couple of tabbies in there!

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cherrybobbins · 25/12/2025 16:07

My tabby

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buckleberryferry · 25/12/2025 16:04

Our beautiful and mischievous little snuggly boy 😍

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TheTecknician · 25/12/2025 16:04

Ginger cats ARE tabbies - red tabbies, to be precise. But then, tabby cats come in a variety of colours and patterns. My sister once had a tiger tabby, a kind of brown-grey colour with black markings and black spots on his front. Two vets independently said he was likely to have Abyssinian ancestry.

Thetelly8 · 25/12/2025 15:56

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 25/12/2025 15:49

DS’s fucking mental tabby ( he’s half Bengal)

He’s gorgeous

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 25/12/2025 15:49

DS’s fucking mental tabby ( he’s half Bengal)

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thecatneuterer · 25/12/2025 15:11

AllPlayedOut · 25/12/2025 15:07

What a beautiful cat and what an arsehole of an owner. I wish him many, many sleepless nights to come and that she gets the wonderful loving home that she deserves.

In fact he is a lovely man, she was just the wrong cat for him. The arseholes are the original owners who failed to neuter and then dumped her and her kittens in a busy street.

AllPlayedOut · 25/12/2025 15:07

thecatneuterer · 25/12/2025 13:38

If anyone in London or surroundings has a tabby cat shaped hole, this one is currently looking for a home. I'm fostering for Celia Hammond's. She was abandoned on a high street with her kittens, which she looked after in a fly tipped pram for a couple of days until we were told about her and went to rescue the family. She was adopted for a few weeks, but has come back to us as the adopter found her too affectionate - always wanting to snuggle with him at night, which disturbed his sleep. Pm me for details.

What a beautiful cat and what an arsehole of an owner. I wish him many, many sleepless nights to come and that she gets the wonderful loving home that she deserves.

Howmanycatsistoomany · 25/12/2025 15:03

I'll send you my super clingy tabby boy - he's currently dribbling all over me...bleurgh 😹

Currently have 3 tabbies, a black and white (mama to the tabbies), and a peach and grey.

TroysMammy · 25/12/2025 15:02

I had a tabby and white who was a lovely, well behaved and serene cat. I've now got a white with grey tabby markings on his head, bum and tail. He is lovely but is an incorrigible reprobate.

catlovingdoctor · 25/12/2025 14:41

Yanbu, I love them!

Isseywith2witchycats · 25/12/2025 14:38

My tabbywho doesn't normally go on te worktops in the kitchen has ecide today that he really needs to be in the middle of the dinner prep he's been told off numerous times and now thinks his name is NO Sam

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SecretWitch · 25/12/2025 14:33

These are the feral mixed tabbies I take care of✨✨✨

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TomatoSandwiches · 25/12/2025 14:31

Tabby cats in my area all seem very friendly, we had one when I was a teenager and ahe was quite spicy!

My favourite cats are black cats, especially girl cats, they are just such clever little loves and so pretty.

Leavesandthings · 25/12/2025 14:27

Lovely cat pics!
My late cat was a stripey ginger, and I was so surprised one day that a friend refered to her as a tabby! But it turns out tabby means stripey rather than black and grey stripes.
You learn something new everyday!

Left · 25/12/2025 14:24

Aww beautiful babies!! YANBU OP, thank you for a lovely wholesome Christmas thread, and thank you everyone for sharing 🥰

HeBeaverandSheBeaver · 25/12/2025 14:14

Not a tabby but besties

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JWhipple · 25/12/2025 14:09

They're all so different though! I had a grey and white tuxedo boy, the happiest, bounciest most loving boy. A Tortie who was a gentle loving (but also would give you such a look at times... She was most expressive with her little face)
I weirdly always wanted a tabby, and have a torbie from a rescue now as she sounded that she'd match well with my current male cat in terms of temperament.
She's semi feral, won't let me stroke her (but happy to slow blink at me and sit nearby) absolutely besotted with my boy cat. The minute she wakes up she's bothering him and rubbing against him. He's given up fighting her. Even waving his paw at her and growling is seen as encouragement.

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HeadyLamarr · 25/12/2025 14:08

PhantomOfAllKnowledge · 25/12/2025 14:01

'Stalking a pear' made me LOL.

The other one lost a fight with a dead mouse. Th tabby had killed it. Ginger tossed it about a bit, it landed on a windowsill and slid down it until if fell off and landed on the ginger's back. He lept a foot in the air in a panic and dash d to hide under the shed for an hour.

And the third sat outside the back door (and not in the little shelter with blankets we put out there while we were at th shops) until he had half an inch of snow on his head. Dipshit.

Thepeopleversuswork · 25/12/2025 14:08

HeadyLamarr · 25/12/2025 13:23

All my best cats have been tabbies. Also excellent mousers, plus friendly and gorgeous and smart.

The gingers have been utter morons but friendly. One of them spent 20 minutes in the garden stalking a pear.

What’s not to like about that?

PhantomOfAllKnowledge · 25/12/2025 14:04

thecatneuterer · 25/12/2025 13:38

If anyone in London or surroundings has a tabby cat shaped hole, this one is currently looking for a home. I'm fostering for Celia Hammond's. She was abandoned on a high street with her kittens, which she looked after in a fly tipped pram for a couple of days until we were told about her and went to rescue the family. She was adopted for a few weeks, but has come back to us as the adopter found her too affectionate - always wanting to snuggle with him at night, which disturbed his sleep. Pm me for details.

Aww. I'm oop north but I hope this gorgeous girl finds a home - I am in the no such thing as a too friendly cat camp, and don't mind at all when they start climbing on my bed at 2am. It's heartbreaking that she was returned for such a reason.

PhantomOfAllKnowledge · 25/12/2025 14:01

HeadyLamarr · 25/12/2025 13:23

All my best cats have been tabbies. Also excellent mousers, plus friendly and gorgeous and smart.

The gingers have been utter morons but friendly. One of them spent 20 minutes in the garden stalking a pear.

'Stalking a pear' made me LOL.

thecatneuterer · 25/12/2025 13:38

If anyone in London or surroundings has a tabby cat shaped hole, this one is currently looking for a home. I'm fostering for Celia Hammond's. She was abandoned on a high street with her kittens, which she looked after in a fly tipped pram for a couple of days until we were told about her and went to rescue the family. She was adopted for a few weeks, but has come back to us as the adopter found her too affectionate - always wanting to snuggle with him at night, which disturbed his sleep. Pm me for details.

To really like tabby cats
HeadyLamarr · 25/12/2025 13:23

All my best cats have been tabbies. Also excellent mousers, plus friendly and gorgeous and smart.

The gingers have been utter morons but friendly. One of them spent 20 minutes in the garden stalking a pear.

To really like tabby cats
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