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Would love more photos.
All of our cats were "rescued" .... hubby cars for feral cats. Annie and Taffy are 6 years old, they are sisters and he rescued them from a metal recycling yard. INKY was a feral kitten from his yard, she is 6 years old too. Sadie and Sally are 3 years old and they were feral kittens we adopted from his feral colony also.
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Tabby cat ==
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"Tabby" redirects here. For other uses, see Tabby (disambiguation).
Mackerel tabby, with the striped pattern
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. Tabbies are sometimes erroneously assumed to be a cat breed.[1] In fact, the tabby pattern is found in many breeds, as well as among the general mixed-breed population. The tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be related to the coloration of the domestic cat's direct ancestor, the African wildcat, which (along with the European wildcat and Asiatic wildcat) has a similar coloration.
Classic tabby
The Classic (also known as "Blotched" or "Marbled"
tabby tends to have a pattern of dark browns, ochres and black but also occurs in grey. Classic tabbies have the "M" pattern on their foreheads but the body markings have a whirled or swirled pattern (often called a "bullseye" on the cat's sides. There is also a light colored "butterfly" pattern on the shoulders and three thin stripes (the center stripe is dark) running along its spine. Like the Mackerel tabby, Classic tabbies have dark bars on the legs, tail, and cheeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat SALLY has the "bullseye" tabby pattern.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bullseye+tabby&biw=1278&bih=721&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiw74TanuLOAhVB7GMKHfGCBRsQsAQIGw&dpr=1
OUR CAT SADIE is a Mackeral (the TIGER pattern)
Mackerel tabby
The mackerel tabby pattern has vertical, gently curving stripes on the side of the body. The stripes are narrow and may be continuous or broken into bars and spots on the flanks and stomach. An "M" shape appears on the forehead along with dark lines across the cat's cheeks to the corners of its eyes. Mackerels are also called 'fishbone tabbies', probably because they are named after the mackerel fish.[5] Mackerel is the most common tabby pattern.
Here is SALLY AND SADIE together.
