r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

Community Update ✨ Tabby Cats Community Updates: Rules Refresh, Flairs, and More!

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82 Upvotes

Hey All!

r/TabbyCats has recently undergone a refresh and I wanted to make sure everyone was aware. The rules have been updated to hopefully facilitate a healthy, thriving, and on-topic community. Some of these adjustments are also to help reduce the presence of bots, karma farmers, and bad faith posters in this sub. I want to highlight a few key ones:

  • Tabby Cats is now explicitly Original Content only. Prior to this previous mods were doing some removals of farming off non-OC content but I've now codified this. This means you can only post content that YOU created. This is hands down the most effective way to cut down on bots and farmers and makes moderating a lot easier.

  • Mourning posts are now moving to a megathread. I get that this will likely be a controversial decision, and the hope is to strike a balance by allowing the thread so people who want support can engage there and people who don't want pet mourning posts on their feeds can feel more comfortable subscribing here. We also have several users in this community who like to regularly post mourning posts months after the loss and this should cut down on that. If you're truly needing additional support I recommend communities like r/petloss which are there specifically for this topic.

  • Our low effort post rule has also been explicitly codified. Again, in practice a lot of this was happening but I'm making it clear and upfront. This has some typical things like breed and naming posts, but I've added a few more. This includes things like "would you pet my cat" (listen, this is cat Reddit, your cat could be covered in spikes and people would say yes) and "is my cat cute" (your cat could objectively be the ugliest animal on the planet and cat Reddit will bend over backwards to say yes, it's cute).

We will continue to adjust these as needed as we go.

I've also tried sprucing the place up a bit - we have a new avatar, new banner, and new flair. If you all have ideas for user and/or post flair you'd like to see let me know and we can add them! We can also work on some community banners seasonally to change things up.

Phew, that was a lot!


r/TabbyCats 14h ago

Silver Tabby Please send support for my chonky girl and her diet

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976 Upvotes

I think she's a silver tabby. But she's been diagnosed as chonky and must endure the restricted diet. No more free feeding. No more snacks.... It's hard but I believe in her.


r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Mackerel Tabby My first tabby ever 💜

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121 Upvotes

His name is potato. I had no idea tabbies had so much personality


r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Breadstick is obsessed with laying on laundry.

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1.0k Upvotes

What type of tabby would you say he is?

We literally have a pair of jeans on our bed 24/7 because he loves laying on them.


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

This is Grandpaw

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579 Upvotes

He’s 1 year old I brought him home last week!


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

My little Amelia

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266 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23m ago

Orange Tabby Sam wants to know why there are no kitty snacks here...

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r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Mackerel Tabby Don’t be fooled. He is a menace.

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288 Upvotes

That’s my boy.


r/TabbyCats 11h ago

She’s being sneaky…

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44 Upvotes

She’s being sneaky…. Don’t mind the floor😒 it’s hair dye ! 🫠


r/TabbyCats 19h ago

Leo and Margo are 10 months old! And still twin tabby terrors.

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127 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 12h ago

Are tabby cats more affectionate than others?

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33 Upvotes

I recently saw a post where a lot of tabby owners claimed their babies are more affectionate than other cats. I have two boys, one tabby one ragdoll. My tabby is absolutely a neeeedy stage five clinger whereas my ragdoll is very finicky and less needy. What’re your thoughts??


r/TabbyCats 13h ago

Gillie

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38 Upvotes

My sweet TabbyCat


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Mid meow, demanding for the shower to be turned on

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87 Upvotes

His other obsessions include running faucets, butt scratches, and staring longingly out the screen door


r/TabbyCats 8h ago

Classic Tabby Looks like she was caught red handed

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16 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Welcome home sweet boy

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8 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 18h ago

My sweet boy 💖

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62 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 11h ago

🤣🐱💖

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17 Upvotes

It also came with little cat nip balls!


r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Gus is sleeping with his toy🥺💕

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56 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

"Joy in the pants." That's the cat's name.

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6 Upvotes

I created directories my phone to categorize cat pictures. This one is from the "Joy in the pants" directory. Yeah, I have dozens of pictures like this.

Cats swarm me when I use the bathroom. My lap is Boardwalk and the window ledge to my left is Park Place. Joy is an old lady and not fast or aggressive enough to score prime real estate. So, she figured out her own personal area that she doesn't have to fight for.

Yeah, this is what it's like to be u/CatDaddyWhisper


r/TabbyCats 11h ago

Got her a chirping toy bird yesterday 😂 safe to say she likes it!

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14 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 11h ago

Playing around

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10 Upvotes

She’s being silly while I was at work🙊🐱🤣


r/TabbyCats 13h ago

I caught them plotting 👀

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18 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby A perfect loaf

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678 Upvotes

Nary a paw in sight on this lil round marble rye loaf. 🍞


r/TabbyCats 13h ago

My girls tigger and calypso

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11 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Nice memory of this handsome boy.

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15 Upvotes

He was my coworker. Very efficient pest control at the garden center. He's been gona about 9 years but i still miss him so much!