![]() Some stripes or bars can often be seen on the lower legs, face and belly and sometimes at the end of the cat's tail. These break up the tabby pattern into a "salt-and-pepper" look. Classic tabby is a recessive trait, so these cats are not as common as mackerel tabbies.Ī ticked tabby pattern makes a grizzly color of fur of dark and light bands or bars. Classic tabbies have dark stripes on their legs, tail, and cheeks. There is also a light colored "butterfly" pattern on the shoulders and three thin stripes (the center stripe is dark) running along its spine. The body is marked with a whirled or swirled pattern (often called a "bullseye") on the cat's sides. Classic tabbies have the "M" pattern on their foreheads too. The classic tabby cat (also known as "blotched" or "marbled") has a pattern usually in the colors of dark brown, ochre, and black but sometimes grey. A mackerel tabby pattern is the only striped coat pattern seen in domestic cats. Mackerels are also called 'Fishbone tabbies' probably because of the mackerel fish. This is what some people refer to as a "tiger." An "M" shape appears on the forehead along with dark lines across the cat's cheeks to the corners of its eyes. A "mackerel tabby" has narrow stripes that run in parallel down its sides. The legs and tail have dark bars as do the cat's cheeks. Mackerel is the original pattern and is by far the most common tabby pattern. ![]() The "patched" tabby is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with tabby patches (also known as "caliby" and "torbie"). There is also a fifth pattern that includes tabby as part of another basic color pattern. There are four tabby patterns that are genetically different: mackerel, classic, spotted, and ticked. ![]()
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