The striped tabby cat is relatively rare. Males tend to grow to 10 16 inches tall whilst females are slightly shorter at 8 - 14 inches. The blotched tabby is the most common form of tabby pattern. The Maine Coon and the Maine Coon Tabby Mix have the same number of genes for their Maine Coon characteristics but the Maine Coon Tabby Mix inherits a gene called 'chondrodysplasia' which makes it smaller than the original Maine Coons.

With the British Empire during Victorian times they spread further. During this time of British expansion many blotched tabby cats became ships’ cats and were therefore scattered all over the globe in quite a short time. Siberian cats come in all types of color combinations and can be deep and dramatic (like my own black Siberian cat Alexei) or light and colorful. It is thought that the blotched tabby cats first surfaced in Britain in the Elizabethan era. These cats often have a mark that looks like the letter 'M' on their foreheads. Tabby cat, also known as grey tiger, or simply tabby is the name for domestic cats with fur coats of stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns. Over time the blotched tabby arrived due to a new mutation. Mackerel tabby with the striped pattern The ticked tabby pattern is a trait of Abyssinians. Sometimes the lines would have broken up to create spots and dashes. The first cats from this hybridization between the European wildcat and the African wildcat would have been mackerel tabbies with thin dark lines. Dr Desmond Morris suggests that this hybridization between two species of wild cat resulted in the higher contrast tabby cat patterns that we see today. The original domestic cats would have had a more washed out tabby pattern which is seen on the ancestral wild cat species from which the domestic cat originates, namely, the North African wildcat which would have hybridized freely with the European wildcat over time. Essay on Cat Behavior Toggle Child Menuĭomestic tabby compared with wild cat ancestor.Wild Cats of Asia (for kids) Toggle Child Menu.

White mackerel tabby cat