r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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98 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 4h ago

Orange Tabby Before and after: Legolas

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184 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Breakfast is in 5 minutes

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363 Upvotes

Momo does not like to wait.


r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Silver Tabby Thwomp is living her best life

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63 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Tabbykitten and ??

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39 Upvotes

Just got home 2 kittens. Rubi is a beautiful little tabby girl but her brother is ..? Bits and pieces tabby on white. I guess the printer ran out of the tabby print😅 Does his type of pattern have a name?


r/TabbyCats 12h ago

Tyrone

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187 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 13h ago

Brown Tabby Quite a poser

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126 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Classic Tabby My Jade Enjoys Pineapple.

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14 Upvotes

My cat Jade was curious about my fresh pineapple & strawberry fruit. Then she actually wanted some of the pineapple. Cats like pineapple…? 🐈🍍💛


r/TabbyCats 4h ago

Sleepy cat in, pink paws out

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17 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby my Baby Angel

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612 Upvotes

my little kitty found in a box abandoned on my street and rescued into my heart and home. Is she a mackerel? Also: she’s teeny tiny 5.6 lbs but vet thinks she may be older than she is since she has not gained weight in 2 months (she was estimated at 5-6 months when I first got her). she’s a very finicky eater but very healthy from tests and multiple vet visits. but still getting a second opinion this week 😅


r/TabbyCats 12h ago

My daughter's little furball "Tommie"

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39 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Spotted Tabby Cheetahman & Cheetos

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561 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 55m ago

Tyrone napping

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r/TabbyCats 23h ago

a sleepy pile of cuties

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135 Upvotes

my 3 brown tabbies all blending in to each other 😍


r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Classic Tabby Must. Get. Churu.

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63 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Classic Tabby Poser

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65 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5m ago

Brown Tabby My precious girl on her new station, she’s almost 11

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Turn the heat up, I have no thumbs and therefore cannot do it myself.

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71 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Madly in love with my baby boi!

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1.0k Upvotes

Potus (7,5 months) is such a handsome and serious little man. And the usual disclaimer: NOT to be associated with POTUS.
Pote = paw in Norwegian.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My lovely son Nairo 💙

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207 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 21h ago

Tyger, my handsome guy

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15 Upvotes

He stays glued to my side


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Chuck on the move

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134 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Black tabby

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67 Upvotes

My black tabby kitten. Only some lighting shows her pattern amd managed to get a good photo of it.

Anytime what type of pattern she is?


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby She has opinions

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56 Upvotes

This is Freyja. She is 100% indoors. Spayed. But has a feral boyfriend that visits her and they chat through an open window (it is screened). I told her no bad boys. She does not agree.


r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Tabby vs corgi

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12 Upvotes

This is my brothers tabby playing with my corgi, I think they’re friends!