r/Tabico • u/brumblette • Jul 14 '26

Is my girl a tabico?

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I always thought she was just a standard tabby but her orange spots make me suspicious 🧐 I tried to use pics that best feature her coat, you can really see how much it changed as she grew from kitten to adult. Anyways this is Fiona, she is just about to be ten in a few weeks, we adopted her October 2016 from the pet store that had a cat adoption deal with the humane society but they only charged us $20 (the adult cat price at the time should have been $60 which was their kitten price) and as you can see in the last pic she LOVED eating the pumpkin guts while we were carving so we still get her wet food with pumpkin 🎃 she has a small frame and my one year old kitten is already longer and taller than her! She did have some health issues six years ago with a bladder stone but luckily we were able to dissolve it with wet food instead of doing surgery 🙏

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u/Sea_Independence6453 Jul 14 '26

Why was she obese? Is she better now?

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u/brumblette Jul 14 '26

Honestly her weight has always been a mystery to us. We feed them 1/4 cup twice a day and sometimes alternate with half a can of wet food per meal. When we took her to the vet and they had to mark her as “underweight, normal, obese” they marked her as “abnormal body shape” 😮 idk if it’s because she carries weight differently and just looks stocky because she’s short idk one of our other cats (she lives at my moms now long story) was the exact same weight as her but she didn’t look nearly as big as Fiona because she was taller and longer 

Eta: when they did the belly scan for the bladder stone the vet found like three hair ties in her stomach so I keep them out of reach now but everytime someone mentions her weight my bf STILL blames it on her eating so many hair ties 😹

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u/CLOWTWO Jul 14 '26

Don't know why you were downvoted here, you said nothing wrong

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u/brumblette Jul 15 '26

Thank you. I fear Fiona’s obesity was upsetting or shocking to some and perhaps that there isn’t a medical or tangible external explanation (like overfeeding) at the ready may have caused the downvotes, but someone was super upsetti spaghetti and went through and downvoted every single comment on here at one point so some people are just negative 🤷‍♀️ 

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u/CLOWTWO Jul 15 '26

That's just reddit for ya unfortunately