Is a Silver Tabby an ordinary short hair cat ?

Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

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Count Baldoni

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:06:50 +0000, Baldoni wrote:

Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

"Silver tabby" just describes the cat's coat color and pattern.

Daniel Mahoney formulated on Monday :
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:06:50 +0000, Baldoni wrote:

Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

"Silver tabby" just describes the cat's coat color and pattern.

Many thanks.

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Count Baldoni

Actually tabby would be the coat pattern.


"Baldoni" wrote in message
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Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

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Count Baldoni

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.

"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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Actually tabby would be the coat pattern.


"Baldoni" wrote in message
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Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

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Count Baldoni

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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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.

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?

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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
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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).

Well, you can of course get a silver tabby as a pedigree British shorthair
but you can also get them as moggies. There is a real difference in type.

Tweed

It happens that Christina Websell formulated :
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.

"Cat Protector" wrote in message
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Actually tabby would be the coat pattern.


"Baldoni" wrote in message
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Or is it a specific breed of cat in its own right ?

-- Count Baldoni





There are not many silver tabbies about though are there when compared
with other shorthairs ?

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Count Baldoni

Jack Campin - bogus address pretended :
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).

I have noticed them in adverts but have not seen many.

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.

My cat Max is dark along his back but at first I thought his fur had a
problem and was going thin. The vet informed me that it was his
lighter undercoat.

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.

Max is black and silver with dashes of white on his underbelly (with
spots) and under his chin.

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.

That would explain Max's coat as it is dark along the back. It is far
smoother than the coats of my other cats though.

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?" I think they use a mangy old chicken
until H&S got on their case. I am a gooner (gunners) myself.

That is my mistake I checked the box by accident. My apologies for
inflicting Spurs on anybody.


I had Max off a friend who could not look after him. He in turn had
him given to him by his daughter. I think his daughter had the price
reduced as he was the "runt" of the litter. However he is a small cat
but very handsome.

Thanks for the info :-)

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Count Baldoni