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While they may be referred to as tiger cats, the actual coat coloring of a tiger, an orange ground with black stripes, does not appear on Felis catus, or domestic cats. They are sometimes referred to as “tiger cats” because their stripes resemble the only occurring-in-the-wild big cat with stripes, yes, Panthera tigris. The mackerel tabby cat has stripes that run perpendicular to the cat’s spine and line his legs and ring his tail. Of all the tabby variations, the one most associated with traditional tabby markings is the mackerel tabby pattern. Holy mackerel - is that a tiger? All about the mackerel tabby cat pattern

McGee is a mackerel tabby cat - more on him later! Photography by Denise LeBeau. There are quite a few varieties of tabby patterns (see all of them here!), but arguably the most popular is the mackerel tabby. It is believed that a large percentage of feral cats are tabbies because the gene is so dominant and it’s most likely the dominant gene because the pattern is best suited for camouflage. Tabby kittens can get their fur patterns from either the sire or the dam, so the unique markings often emerge in the litters of cat fanciers’ breeding programs and those unplanned random cat romances. Many tabby cats have the trademark “M” created by the stripes on the tabby’s forehead. The term “tabby” refers to their striped fur pattern. It may seem like they are a breed unto themselves, but tabbies are not a breed.

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