This stuff, in bygone times, was often called tabby: hence the cat with lines or markings on its fur was called a “tabby” cat. The word tabby was derived from a kind of taffeta, or ribbed silk, which when calendered or what is now termed watered, is by that process covered with wavy lines. Harrison Weir, in his book Our Cats And All About Them, dated 1889, describes the origins as this: The name tabby is believed to have derived from Atabi, which is a type of striped taffeta (known as tabbi) that was manufactured in the Attabiah district of Baghdad in the Middle East. Agouti ( symbolised with an uppercase A) is dominant over almost all other coat colours with an exception for the white masking and white spotting genes. Ticked Abyssinian catĭomestic cats inherited the agouti gene from their wild cat ancestors, the African wildcat ( Felis silvestris lybica). Agouti hairs are most obvious on the ticked tabby (such as the Abyssinian or Singapura) who only has the agouti background but not the stripes, spots or sworls. The tabby gene is known as agouti and produces a background that is made up of individual hairs that have alternate banding ( ticking). The tabby cat is not a breed, but a coat colour that can be found in both mixed breed and purebred cat populations. If you are looking for something different this page is well worth a visit - British Shorthairs come in a vast array of colours and patterns.Tabby is a coat pattern among domestic cats (purebred and mixed-breed) that 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. Look at our kitten page to see if we have of these beautiful blue tabbies available.ĭiscover more British Shorthair colours. Of course, there is always the exception to the rule! But it does tend to be true that tabbies are a bit more hyper. In our experience, tabby British Shorthair cats are more athletic and energetic than their non-tabby counterparts. TemperamentĪ blue tabby will likely have a very similar temperament to your average tabby British Shorthair cat. These are especially unusual! For more information see our page on bicolour cats. BicoloursĪll blue tabbies can also come in the various bicolour patterns: bicolour, harlequin and van patterns. Read more about the silver tabby British Shorthair. Both blue-golden and blue-silver tabbies are incredibly beautiful. The blue silver is a higher contrast, with the background being almost white. Blue golden tabbies look as though they have been painted. They are very similar in appearance, but the blue-golden tabby is warmer and the combination of the blue on the golden background is very subtle and strikingly unusual - it is incredibly beautiful actually. The blue tabby also comes in ticked, shaded and smoke.īlue tabbies come in either blue-golden or blue-silver. The blue classic tabby is marbled, or rosetted The blue mackerel tabby is stripey, like a tiger
Blue tabby patternsīlue British Shorthair tabbies come in all of the many varieties of tabby you can get: The dilution gene reduces the amount of pigment in the hair, so that black becomes blue. This means that a blue tabby has two copies of the dilution gene. If you would like one please contact us as they don't come along very often! The genetics of the blue tabbyīlue tabbies are genetically identical to black tabbies in all but one way: the blue tabby is homozygous for the dilution gene.
V ery occasionally we have blue tabby kittens available in self and bicolour.
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