Patched tabbies (also known as torbies) have coats that comprise a blend of tortoiseshell (red and black) and tabby patterns. Shaded cats are a selectively bred tabby variant producing darker-tipped fur over a lighter ground colour. For example, Toygers were created via selective breeding to produce a pattern of stripes that more closely resembles that of a tiger, whereas breeders of red (orange) Persians have sought to blend the stripes together as much as possible in order to create a cat with a solid-coated appearance.
Silver: Black, gray, cream, orange, brown, lilac, or fawn stripes on a white or off-white background (those with orange stripes are known as cameo tabbies)Īccording to Sarah Hartwell (2010) of the UK Cats Protection organization, a number of breeds and subtypes have been developed through a refinement of certain tabby patterns.Red: Dark orange or marmalade stripes over a cream background.Cream: Darker cream (peach or sand-coloured) stripes over a lighter cream background.Brown: Black or dark brown stripes on a brown or grayish background.Blue: Dark gray or blue-gray stripes on a lighter gray or off-white background.The four tabby patterns come in the following colour schemes: Ticked Tabby: Tabby markings on the face but no stripes or spots over the body (the unmarked fur is agouti) found in breeds such as the Abyssinian, Somali, and Singapura, as well as various non-purebreds.Spotted Tabby: Spots (large or small) or broken parallel stripes over the sides of the body caused by the same gene as mackerel, but with the stripes broken up due to additional genetic influences.Mackerel Tabby: Narrow parallel vertical stripes down the sides of the body.Classic Tabby/Blotched Tabby: Swirling or marbled patterns.Starbuck and Thomas (1999) list the four tabby subtypes that result from additional genes modifying the expression of the agouti gene: The darker stripes of a tabby are non-agouti (solid), whereas the background fur is agouti (banded with alternating stripes of lighter and darker colour). In addition to the stripes on their bodies, typical tabby markings include lines around the eyes and on the cheeks, and a letter “M” on the forehead. This coat type was probably selected for because it provides good camouflage for hunting and avoiding predators.Īccording to Breton and Creek (2003), tabby cats get their markings from the dominant agouti gene. Blotched Tabby, Heikki Siltala, Īll striped domestic cats are tabbies, and experts believe that the tabby is the wild type (original coat type) of all domestic cats.
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