How to use in-sentence of “tabby”:
+ Mackerel is the original pattern and is by far the most common tabby pattern.
+ They look like a “wild” tabby cat.
+ But later, other tabby patterns happened because of mutations and selective breeding of the mackerel tabby.
+ The tabby pattern is in many pure breeds of cats, as well as in mixed breeds.
+ An urban legend says that Bobtail cats began by cross mating a domestic tabby cat and a wild bobcat.
+ This cat is a little larger than a domestic cat, with rounder ears and spots where a tabby cat would have stripes.
+ Both of these wild cats have a pale, striped tabby pattern.
Example sentences of “tabby”:
+ The mackerel tabby pattern was the first tabby pattern in domestic cats.
+ The spotted tabby has a gene that breaks up the mackerel tabby pattern so that the stripes appear as spots.
+ A mackerel tabby pattern is the only striped coat pattern seen in domestic cats.
+ The mackerel tabby pattern was the first tabby pattern in domestic cats.
+ The spotted tabby has a gene that breaks up the mackerel tabby pattern so that the stripes appear as spots.
+ A mackerel tabby pattern is the only striped coat pattern seen in domestic cats.
+ The classic tabby cat has a pattern usually in the colors of dark brown, ochre, and black; but sometimes grey.
+ A ticked tabby pattern makes a grizzly color of fur of dark and light bands or bars.
+ But the genes of some cat breeds hide the tabby appearance.
+ She was an orange tabby cat who never missed a voyage.
+ There is also a fifth pattern that includes tabby as part of another basic color pattern.
+ Tabby cat, also known as grey tiger, or simply tabby is the name for domestic cats with fur coats of stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns.
+ The “patched” tabby is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with tabby patches.
+ All orange cats are tabbies, and the orange portion of calico cats will always show tabby patterns.
+ Even though he was the official ‘first pet’, he shared his food and water with a stray tabby cat, named Slippers.
+ The tabby pattern happens naturally because of cats’ closest ancestor, the African Wildcat.
+ Since the orange gene is on the X chromosome, about 80% of orange tabby cats are male, and nearly all calico cats are female.
+ But when those breeds mixed, it made a more distinct mackerel tabby coat.
+ These break up the tabby pattern into a “salt-and-pepper” look.