Tabby Cat Fur Patterns

Many american shorthair cats demonstrate this pattern.

Tabby cat fur patterns. Types of tabby patterns classic. The pattern known as classical tabby is a pattern that is based on stripes but which are thicker than the mackerel pattern and may also possess swirls spirals and bulls eyes. The body has narrow. The classic tabby has bold swirling patterns along his sides much like a marble cake.

Brown this has a warm brown or bronze background with the tabby pattern in black. Within their calico spots they may have tabby stripes. A solid color without any patches stripes swirls or spots is considered one of the basic cat coat patterns. If a cat has three colors and the distinctive tabby forehead marking they re a calico tabby.

The cat can be all black white gray red or cream. The cat pictured in this chart has a very high color contrast which shows his whorls clearly. A mackerel tabby has narrow stripes that run in parallel down her sides. A tabby cat will have a distinctive m shaped mark in the fur of the forehead and the tabby pattern can occur in patches or over the entire coat.

Abyssinian american bobtail american curl american shorthair american wirehair australian mist bengal british shorthair cornish rex devon rex egyptian mau exotic maine coon munchkin ocicat oriental persian scottish fold scottish shorthair siamese. Many tabby cats also have beautiful markings around the eyes and across the cheek sometimes referred to as eyeliner. This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat. The term calico much like tabby refers to a pattern of colors rather than a breed.

The most common tabby coat pattern is the mackerel tabby. It sounds simple but it s actually fairly rare for a cat to have absolutely no other color. Calico cats have three colors. White orange and black.

This pattern is genetically recessive meaning that in order to possess it the cat in question must inherit the gene from both parents and not just one. What cat breeds can have the tabby coat pattern.