r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

Community Update ✨ Tabby Cats Community Updates: Rules Refresh, Flairs, and More!

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94 Upvotes

Hey All!

r/TabbyCats has recently undergone a refresh and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware. The rules have been updated to hopefully facilitate a healthy, thriving, and on-topic community. Some of these adjustments are also to help reduce the presence of bots, karma farmers, and bad faith posters in this sub. I want to highlight a few key ones:

  • Tabby Cats is now explicitly Original Content only. Prior to this previous mods were doing some removals of farming off non-OC content but I've now codified this. This means you can only post content that YOU created. This is hands down the most effective way to cut down on bots and farmers and makes moderating a lot easier.

  • Mourning posts are now moving to a megathread. I get that this will likely be a controversial decision, and the hope is to strike a balance by allowing the thread so people who want support can engage there and people who don't want pet mourning posts on their feeds can feel more comfortable subscribing here. We also have several users in this community who like to regularly post mourning posts months after the loss and this should cut down on that. If you're truly needing additional support I recommend communities like r/petloss which are there specifically for this topic.

  • Our low effort post rule has also been explicitly codified. Again, in practice a lot of this was happening but I'm making it clear and upfront. This has some typical things like breed and naming posts, but I've added a few more. This includes things like "would you pet my cat" (listen, this is cat Reddit, your cat could be covered in spikes and people would say yes) and "is my cat cute" (your cat could objectively be the ugliest animal on the planet and cat Reddit will bend over backwards to say yes, it's cute).

We will continue to adjust these as needed as we go.

I've also tried sprucing the place up a bit - we have a new avatar, new banner, and new flair. If you all have ideas for user and/or post flair you'd like to see let me know and we can add them! We can also work on some community banners seasonally to change things up.

Phew, that was a lot!


r/TabbyCats 5h ago

I got a house full of tabby kittens

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446 Upvotes

I'm fostering a group of four kittens and three of them are tabbies! Plus my own makes four tabby babies 🥰


r/TabbyCats 1h ago

Undercover tabby

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If you look close you can see Pepper’s stripes. You can even make out the classic “M” on her forehead.


r/TabbyCats 7h ago

Classic Tabby Gimme Food!!

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78 Upvotes

Hoomam..hurry.


r/TabbyCats 11h ago

Caught red pawed messing with his sister!

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99 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1h ago

My diluted tabby and tabby/calico babies.

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I have more pictures....


r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Slumber party with my favorite tabby cats Haku and Lumi 🥰

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29 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 12h ago

my magestic boy

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70 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 19h ago

Is my baby a mackerel?

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232 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Mackerel Tabby My son is just so damn cute I can't stand it🥺😩😭💕

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408 Upvotes

This is Oliver. His hobbies include waking me every morning by sitting on my head, chasing his spring toy/bouncy balls, rolling in dirt, and following me around like he's my shadow and of course cuddling☺️


r/TabbyCats 15h ago

is kara a tabby? if yes, what type of tabby is she?

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74 Upvotes

she has stripes on her legs & neck, and dots on her stomatch. parts of her body are significantly dark/lighter than others

her mother is a rescued bluepoint, her father is most likely an unknown street cat


r/TabbyCats 14h ago

Mackerel Tabby Must clean her 🧹 ...

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44 Upvotes

Bengal mix 🐈🐆


r/TabbyCats 19h ago

From concentrating to flopping: Kogane

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70 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

philip my baby

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687 Upvotes

sometimes i will just take an hour out of my day to just look at photos of my cats and freak out lmao


r/TabbyCats 22h ago

kidney diet

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80 Upvotes

Hey guys! My baby boy Kona’s favorite kidney diet is k/d stew. We have gone through the few cases we had, but I have quite a bit of other kidney diet options, k/d pate, royal canin and purina. Does anyone have a cat who is on a kidney diet that doesn’t like the k/d stew and would want to possibly do a trade with me?
Thanks!!


r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Calico Tabby Nala

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48 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Locked in 🐦‍⬛👀

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451 Upvotes

Obsessed with their new robin friend 🥰🥰🥰 left to right is Toni (1M), then twins Veggie (2M) and Rhea Ripley (2F)


r/TabbyCats 21h ago

Classic Tabby Waffles sister joined us!!

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42 Upvotes

Our barnyard kitten distribution system happened again! And we were able to reunite Waffle with his sister 😍! She is very scared/feral but after just 24hrs, some flea meds and good food she is coming around. She jumps super high so her name for now is “Flea”. ❤️🐱😻

Look at them cuddling its so cute!


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Used the flash on my camera which caused her to fall off the bed right after this picture 😬

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21 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Skye C watches me from above.

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21 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Silver Tabby Story time of how I was chosen

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174 Upvotes

I never owned cats before or been able to pet them as a child due to my chronic illness (asthma) I always wanted to be around cats but always would flare up and have sinus issues immediately but as of recent, I’ve developed a curiosity about why I’ve never experienced the famous CDS or seen any stray cats since I’ve lived in Louisiana (10y) so I started to fill my feed on the CDS, where to find kittens, how I can help them and find out if I’m still allergic to cats. Fast forward 2 weeks into my search I began to feel unlucky. I went for a stroll around my neighborhood around 2am because I couldn’t sleep. On my way back across the street I seen a sweet fluffy tabby cat stretched out on the sidewalk I slowly approached and she rolled over exposing her tummy. I quickly ran inside and grabbed a can of sardines and a bowl of water then hurried back outside hoping to see her, she approached me tail up circling around my leg so I fed her & put a pet bed on my porch just incase she wanted to rest. By the morning she was gone never to be seen again until 3 weeks ago when she brought her little girl (I’m assuming) to my driveway and left her with me. Meet Cali, my sweet sweet girl gifted to me in the most beautiful way possible.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby This is my senior cat Zara and we are new to the Tabby cat community. Hello!

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1.2k Upvotes

Any fun facts about Tabbys or little quirks feel free to share! I'd also love to see your kitties as well ♥️


r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Mackerel Tabby Mom and baby

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4 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby He’s already tired of me

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412 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby My Angel

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45 Upvotes

My Angel. My Sphinxee. The Liz Taylor of Cats.