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Cat Forum / General Topics / January 2008Is a Silver Tabby an ordinary short hair cat ?
Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?  SignatureCount Baldoni Actually tabby would be the coat pattern. > Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? Would you agree that there are quite a a lot of variations in the tabby coat pattern? Boyfie is a mackerel tabby/white. My brother's cat Tigger is a perfect example of a marbled tabby. > Actually tabby would be the coat pattern. > >> Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? > Would you agree that there are quite a a lot of variations in the tabby > coat pattern? > Boyfie is a mackerel tabby/white. My brother's cat Tigger is a perfect > example of a marbled tabby. There are some. My cat Icarus has a classic tabby pattern which is very rare for a Japanese Bobtail. Jade was a more diluted tiger striped tabby. It happens that Christina Websell formulated : > Would you agree that there are quite a a lot of variations in the tabby coat > pattern? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >>> >>> -- Count Baldoni There are not many silver tabbies about though are there when compared with other shorthairs ? SignatureCount Baldoni > It happens that Christina Websell formulated : >> Would you agree that there are quite a a lot of variations in the tabby [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > There are not many silver tabbies about though are there when compared > with other shorthairs No, but they are not uncommon. It does not make them more valuable than my little black/white tuxedo girl, Kitty Farmcat. Tweed > Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? Speaking for the way we see it in the UK... They're a type of British Shorthair. My Muriel is one. They are very popular in advertising but not very common and fairly expensive (more than Persians or oriental breeds, not as high as Bengals, Norwegian Forests or Maine Coons). Muriel sheds an awesome amount of white fluff. Her fur is denser, smoother, and slightly longer than most shorthair breeds. Feels like it's coated with teflon. The word is sometimes applied to tabbies whose orange bits are rather faded-out. Muriel has no red at all, she's like a black- and-white photo of a tabby with aqua eyes, a pink nose and a pink arsehole added. I don't know how general this is, but Muriel has been a phenomenally healthy and youthful cat. Whatever selection they do to maintain the breed hasn't done her any harm. Apparently they interbreed them with black moggies every few generations to stop the grey bits from fading to white, so they may be less inbred than some pedigrees. Muriel came from the cat and dog home. We've no idea how she got there. I can't imagine why the alt.sports.spurs group was in the Newsgroups: line, do they use one as a mascot? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 > Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? It's not a special breed, but a description of a specially marked coat. (On the other hand, NO cat is "ordinary"!) EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) expressed precisely : >> Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? > > It's not a special breed, but a description of a specially marked coat. (On > the other hand, NO cat is "ordinary"!) Agreed. SignatureCount Baldoni > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) expressed precisely : >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Agreed. At Xmas we booked Bonnie and Clyde and Fluff into a cattery for four days. The cattery owner was breeding pedigree silver tabbies. She had a several kittens available. They were absolutely gorgeous and I would have loved to have taken one home with me. Their faces were so pretty, they were neat little faces that made it easy to fall in love with them. A few months ago we went to the New Zealand National cat show which was held in our area. There were heaps of silver tabbies, all beautiful. Bev ollie2 was thinking very hard : >> EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) expressed precisely : >>> [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Bev Yes they have amazing markings which the black and silver emphasize greatly. Max also is a very good natured cat. He wants to clime on computers and playstation and sleep their. Also the box for the sattelite. SignatureCount Baldoni > > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) expressed precisely : > >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Bev Bonnie, Clyde and Fluff? Sounds like a convention of Radio One DJ's. LOL You boys keeping up with all this? Silver Tabby. Nothing special!! So, how is Ramos doing? Have you noticed many changes in the style of your play at all? Have I gone off topic?? On Jan 7, 4:41 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgm...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ? > > It's not a special breed, but a description of a specially > marked coat. (On the other hand, NO cat is "ordinary"!) We had a couple of silver tabbies as barn cats when I was a kid growing up on a farm. You're right, silver tabby is a color, whether the cat is a particular breed or a mixed breed "moggy." Some breeders might specialize in a particular color, like silver tabby. I've seen a lot of silver tabby American Shorthairs at cat shows. -yngver
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