What really is a tabby cat?

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

My Inka is a grey tabby, but with lots of white too; her chin and nose, part of her belly and her paws.

[QueenScoopalot]

I recall reading many years back, that genetically every cat has tabby in them. Not sure how much truth in in that, but I've noticed often with 'solid' black kittens that if sunshine hits their fur just right, they appear striped. There's so many variations it boggles the mind!

[catmandu]

I thought that Tabbies had a blending of colors.I know Michael is an Orange Tabby,but Is Nugget who is a solid Gold Color?
This is confusing to an Old Cat Lover.

A Nugget more [precious than 24 Karat Gold!

[Laura's Babies]

Chester and Amy are what I call "Tabby & White". If I had the choose WHICH tabby I liked the best I would have a bad problem deciding. They have that "M" thing on their forehead. When Samantha had kittens, her little solid black ones seemed to have stripes, like Jan said... when the sun hit them right.

I just know that God knew what he was doing when he created cats and their many colors and patterns.

[kimlovescats]

Gary, I do believe that Nugget is a tabby. I can faintly see his "M" marking on his forehead. Heck, I would venture to say that every cat here on PT is a tabby in one form or another! I had just mostly associated tabbies with the brown and gray colors, sorry I made my website page exclusively for those ... but I do have limited space ... I have to pay for more!

Jan ... you were right, that site also said that all kitties carry the tabby gene.

Kim

[kb2yjx]

Queen Scoop Alot and I must have read the SAME book, because I recall "that all cats are tabbies," too! Our Tuxedo, Tina Peepers, when in the sun, you can see the faint stripes on her!!! I have read about the CLASSIC, BLOTHCED, and Mackeral striped tabbies. The blotched has the swirls, the mackeral the stripes go 'round the body, and the classic has stripes, but I do not remember how they go!!!! Sandra

[Felix]

My Felix is Tabby & white