Tabby Cat Red

Red cats are not their own breed and you can find them in many cat breeds as well as moggies cats with no pedigree.

Tabby cat red. Check out our red tabby cat selection for the very best in unique or custom handmade pieces from our shops. The notion that tabby is indicative of a female cat may be due to the feminine proper name tabby as a shortened form of tabitha. All red or orange cats have tabby markings because the gene that carries this color pattern is the same gene that carries orange coloration. Incidentally red or cream diluted red coloured cats are always tabby cats even though the tabby pattern might be very faint.

This is because a red cat is red orange because it has an orange pigment in its hair strands called phaeomelanin. Prototypical tabby patterns in the head region. An m on the forehead bright eye rims and borders of the ears. The red cat is a common type that is always tabby in pattern and males far outnumber females.

Red or orange tabby the most well known of orange cats garfield is a classic example of a red tabby. The dark lines on a mackerel. The gene that produces a solid colour the non agouti gene does not work on the pigment phaeomelanin. Use of the term tabby cat for a cat with a striped coat began in the 1690s and was shortened to tabby in 1774.