Ginger became the Lady’s cat through her school days and after. The Lady’s dad came home from work one day with an orange cat that he heard was left at our vet. Now we know that another classic tabby in the Lady’s life was Ginger, her first orange tabby, also a rare female ginger tabby. Rhette also has the distinctive “M” on his forehead and rings around his neck. The Lady never noticed this about our current tabby, Rhette, until our dog walker friend mentioned it. The Classic Tabby Cat has bold, swirling patterns along its sides, the circular patterns on the the body closely resembling a bullseye. According to there are four types of tabby cats: Classic, Mackerel, Patched and Spotted or Ticked. A tabby is any domestic cat that has a coat featuring distinctive stripes, dots, lines or swirling patterns, usually together with a mark resembling an “M” on its forehead. But more importantly, the tabbies.ĭid you know that tabbies aren’t a breed of cat? It’s actually the pattern of the cat’s coat, and the most common. Or, as the Lady I rescued calls it, living with a tabby cat! The Lady’s lifetime can be documented by the cats she shared her life with. Detailing the life of the famous feline, Buffy, it documents tabby cat Buffy’s life in a series of entertaining photographs and captions. The book signing event is by author Sandy Robins and photographer Paul Smulson in promoting their new book, Making the Most of All Nine Lives: The Extraordinary Life of Buffy the Cat (Triumph Books). Today is the first National Tabby Day! The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals, Bideawee, and Triumph Books will celebrate the first National Tabby Day on April 30 with a cat adoption event and book signing.

Mackerel tabby cat adoption