![]() Ginger tabby cat ©Silarock - Shutterstock Is a tabby cat a rare cat?Īlthough accurate statistics are difficult to obtain, tabby cats are very common, and can be found just about anywhere: in stray cats, of course, but also in many different breeds. If your ginger tabby cat has a tipped, smoked or shaded effect on his coat, he is said to be a tipped cameo, smoked cameo or shaded cameo. This applies to all shades, from yellow to caramel, cream, ginger and marmalade.īecause females need two ginger genes to get this coat colour, compared to one for males, about 80% of ginger cats are male. The abouti gene (also known as ticked gene), which decides whether a cat's coat will be bi-coloured or single-coloured, triggers tabby markings in all ginger cats. Silver exists for all solid coloured coats, and this is how we find cream silver, black tortie silver, red silver… Did you know: Ginger cats are always tabby! The silver tabby: It has a very light or white base coat with a silvery appearance. The shaded tabby: It is halfway between a smoke tabby and tipped tabby, with one third of the hair being dark and two thirds being light. The smoke tabby cat: They also have a black stripe at the end of the hair, but this stripe is longer, requiring the fur to be lifted to see that the base of the hair is clear. It is a coat that is mostly seen in the Chinchilla Persian. The term "tipped" comes from "tip" or "end" of the hair. The tipped tabby: It is a ticked tabby with black stripes at the tip of the hair and a silver effect coat. No wonder it's so hard to tell the different varieties of tabby apart! And that's without taking into account whether they are tipped, smoked, silver or shaded. The spotted tabby: This variety of tabby has a pattern with small spots, which gives the cats a cheetah-like appearance! The ticked tabby: This variety has coloured stripes running down the length of the cat’s coat. The mackerel tabby: This variety has a fine striped tabby pattern reminiscent of a fish skeleton, the "mackerel". The classic tabby: This variety has large, bold, swirling patterns along his sides, a bit like a marble cake. There are 4 varieties of tabby cats: the classic tabby, the mackerel tabby, the ticked tabby, and the spotted tabby. Good to know: The tabby pattern has different variations triggered by an independent gene. In general, they have striped markings on their eyes, cheeks, paws and tail, which give a nice visual effect that helps a lot with camouflage. The most distinctive marking of a tabby cat is the M-shape on their foreheads. Tabby cats can come in all sorts of colours: Depending on the type of tabby, they can have all sorts of marbled, striped, spotted or even coloured swirls on the body, neck, shoulders, belly, and flanks. It is these markings that distinguish the tabby, not the coat colour beneath the markings. What distinguishes the coat of tabbies are the markings on their coat with a marbled or striped effect, with dark spots on a light background. Tabby cat with a clear M-shape on its forehead ©Esin Deniz - Shutterstock How do I recognise a tabby cat? ![]()
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