Tabby Cat Breeds With Stripes

They may be spotted like an ocelot.

Tabby cat breeds with stripes. A tabby is any domestic cat felis catus with a distinctive m shaped marking on its forehead stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks along its back and around its legs and tail and differing by tabby type characteristic striped dotted lined flecked banded or swirled patterns on the body neck shoulders sides flanks chest and abdomen. Mackerel tabbies have striped rings around their tail and legs a necklace of stripes on the front of their chests and bands of solid or broken stripes running down the sides of their bodies. Narrow parallel stripes similar to a mackerel sky down the side. Mackeral tabby cats with fielding exhibit the tabby patterning but the field or fielding refers to the background color e g brown mackeral tabby with a gray field would be a cat with black stripes and a gray body.

They may be striped like a tiger called mackerel coloring. Tabby is a common coat pattern among domestic cats which features an agouti pattern of alternating dark and pale bands of colour along the hair shaft with contrasting darker spots stripes or sworls and a prominent m on the forehead. Tabbies patterns may be swirled like marble which is called classic coloring. They will have a darker color in spots running in two lines across their tummies called vest buttons.

They may also have a striation that makes them appear shimmery in the sunlight and that type of tabby is called agouti or ticked some cats.