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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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25mini7 · 25/12/2025 09:57

My baby

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SusanSHelit · 25/12/2025 09:56

I've had two boy tabbies, many years ago. Both absolutely bonkers but utterly gorgeous.

I have a very sweet but quite dim little black cat now. She's my little brainless gremlin

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BuboOwl · 25/12/2025 09:53

My boy Bo, the best gardening friend a girl could ask for!

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awrbc81 · 25/12/2025 09:48

Love a tabby too, here is my beautiful girl

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Judystilldreamsofhorses · 25/12/2025 09:47

This one’s on his vet records as a “ginger tabby” so here he is.

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To really like tabby cats
FloraPostIt · 25/12/2025 09:45

Team tabby - behold the handsomeness

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Ketzele · 25/12/2025 09:43

I'm torn between tabby and tortoiseshell. Having said which, I currently have a tux and he couldn't be more perfect.

PhantomOfAllKnowledge · 25/12/2025 09:41

Here is my tabby girl - she is actually a torbie, with some tortoiseshell mixed in.

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Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow · 25/12/2025 09:41

I'm not even a "cat person" but am still loving this thread! 😻

Itsallabouttea · 25/12/2025 09:39

Grey tabbys are the best, mine is a total arsehole but we love her

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ghostyslovesheets · 25/12/2025 09:39

I love Tabby cats - I have one who is an oriental cross who is beautiful ❤️ and 2 tabby and white cats. (Along with a fluffy black cat and 2 ginger idiots)!

RebeccaDecember · 25/12/2025 09:38

It’s her first Christmas and she’s very excited

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CalzoneOnLegs · 25/12/2025 09:35

@grinchmcgrinchface i adore his paw ‘pattern’, and @user1471548941 Ians pink beans ❤️❤️❤️

moggerhanger · 25/12/2025 09:30

My tabby boy is the softest gentlest lad. One eyed and half tailed, he's a rescue feral.

HellsBells13 · 25/12/2025 09:28

I've had black and white and Tabby. I have my Mums cat as Mum passed away a few years back. Objectively Tabby cats are in my opinion the most striking, big eyes and markings. Here's my Emily aka Moo 😍

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Blindbobisagreatcat · 25/12/2025 09:28

This is Bob. Had to have an eye removed about 6 years ago and the other one about 3 years ago. He's amazing and we love him very much.

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To really like tabby cats
AuntyAngela · 25/12/2025 09:26

I agree, tabby cats are the best

No wait, it's ginger cats.

No scrap that, grey cats are the my favourite.

Oh no, it's definitely white cats.

Hang on, it's blue cats.

Kitten somersaults onto my lap, runs down my leg, chases her tail, zooms around room, fights her shadow, does full circuit of couch, bits my book, falls asleep on my lap.

^ those 30 seconds just made me change my mind to fully black cats.

pointythings · 25/12/2025 09:22

I love them all - I have a ginger, a black, two ginger and whites and a tabby. The tabby is the favourite I'm not supposed to have, he's so big and cuddly and needy.

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Shedmistress · 25/12/2025 09:16

He was called Jaws because when I first gave him biscuits he bit my finger. This cat was a feral who came to find me when his mum was killed by a car, he bought his 2 brothers to me for food and then he never left. Until he was himself knocked over.

He was an absolute legend.

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HeBeaverandSheBeaver · 25/12/2025 09:03

My whole life I wanted a tabby. Now I have two

They are 11 next year.

I love tabby's tummy buttons

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KimberleyClark · 25/12/2025 08:45

CountryVic · 25/12/2025 00:06

My tabby really thought I was her master. I much prefer gingers, they are brilliant.

The friendliest, most sociable cat I’ve ever known was a ginger Tom. Lived a few doors down. Always dropping in to see us.

Alsonification · 25/12/2025 08:43

Here’s our girl, Bambi. She’s 14 years old in April & only in the last year or so has she got less cranky lol. The only person she likes is ds.

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OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea · 25/12/2025 08:42

My Beast agrees. Tabby cats are marvellous.

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Jumbojem · 25/12/2025 08:35

Thought I'd mumsnet a bit before the day kicks off, so glad I chose this thread (wanted something heartwarming). I grew up with a tabby female called Cinders and I've always loved tabbies. Sadly no cat of our own right now but I am loving the pictures, the names and the antics.

RampantIvy · 25/12/2025 08:28

We used to have two cats before DD was born. One was black and one was ginger and both were adorable.

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