I've read about it but am a bit confused. I had never even heard of the term ticked tabby until I joined TCS. Cali has really well defined stripes on her front legs, in the photo anyway. 40 Location California, USA I figured breeders know more about coloring and markings. Iris is quite far along towards the full ticking but she's not all the way into purebred aby style ticking.Īnyway the kittens are all gorgeous! and I love the rich red Lion has inherited from his mum. I think there's probably a spectrum between macarel tabby and ticked tabby where the ticking becomes more and more overwhelming until all the stripes are gone. She's not as smoothly ticked with the very little banding you'll find on the purebred ticked tabby cats like abys and singapuras but over there you've had breeders focusing on improving the ticking for generations so it's a very 'polished' version of the pattern. I.e being ticked tabby or patched tabby isn't really mutually exclusive. So with that you could get a classic patterned patched tabby cat or a macarel patterned patched cat. It's basically a tortie or a calico cat where the black patches are brown tabby instead of solid black. Both red and cream come in all four tabby patterns: the mackerel tabby has narrow bands of stripes thought to resemble fish bones the classic tabby has large whorls, sometimes as a ‘target pattern called blotched tabby in the UK and the spotted tabby is a mackerel pattern with the stripes broken up into spots. I.e patched means that there's a "patchwork" of red and brown (or cream and grey if the cat is dilute). classic vs ticked tabby is a matter of pattern. (Read the section, Why do cats have tabby stripes below. classic tabby photo courtesy of iCandy RagaMuffins The classic tabby has bold, swirling patterns along the sides, much like a marble cake. Tabby cats are what is known as a landrace of cats, which means that they developed these special markings all on their own, without any help or design on the part of humans, as a kind of adaptation to their environment. Tabby is not a color or a breed but a pattern and is in many breeds, not just the RagaMuffins. The way I understand it as well, mackarel vs. author Lisa Rowe Heavenly Muffins There are four types of tabby coat patterns.
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