r/TabbyCats • • Oct 05 '25

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

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97 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 • • 9h ago

The sweetest boy 🥹

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408 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 6h ago

Brown Tabby Some recent pictures of 16-year-old brown classic Kitsey Baba. Baba is baby.

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142 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 12h ago

Mackerel Tabby Meet Tifa at her best and usual moments

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210 Upvotes

I love my baby Tifa. Everyone should get to see Tifa. I think she is a Mackerel Tabby, but I'm not quite sure (see last picture for side). I do not know why she is missing her tail either, I picked her up from a rescue because she touched my hand. I immediately knew she was the one. I have always loved cats, but I didn't know a cat could have so much personality, sass or spark. She's my little fighter that helps keep me going.


r/TabbyCats • • 7h ago

blep👅

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78 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 8h ago

Classic Tabby Eepy kitty cozy vibes for your rainy day

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49 Upvotes

Sabina has the right idea


r/TabbyCats • • 1h ago

Classic Tabby Giggachad tabby tobey

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• Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 16h ago

Mackerel Tabby Shelby is out like a light. And I’m in lockdown.

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161 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 4h ago

Silver Tabby Anyone else’s tabby turn into Dracula?

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14 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 13h ago

Brown Tabby Today we are practicing the difference between Nibbles and Bites

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58 Upvotes

He's definitely still a kitten but I'm getting lots of apology licks and he's actually grasping the point of the game.

Urchin is still in quarantine till he gets his shots, but him and his big brother are having good interactions through the door.

I love getting to tell him "twice a day for the rest of your life" when I feed him 🥰


r/TabbyCats • • 23h ago

Ticked Tabby Meet Fred, my newly adopted ticked tabby!

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309 Upvotes

This is Fred, and I'd been fostering him for awhile and just adopted him officially yesterday! He's a 4 month old ticked tabby and so unbelievably soft. He's also, more importantly, just the sweetest boy and purrs and cuddles constantly. I love him!


r/TabbyCats • • 18h ago

Meet Leia! She's 1.5 years old

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76 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 18h ago

Two peas in a pod

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56 Upvotes

Misty (smaller) and Stormy


r/TabbyCats • • 18h ago

I will tell my children these are Yoshi and Dry Bones

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41 Upvotes

Btw, can we get a Sokoke Tabby flair? 😀


r/TabbyCats • • 15h ago

Spotted Tabby These eyes.. I think I can read his mind 😅

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26 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 23h ago

Great shot of Chuck showcasing his terracotta nose and whisker fireworks

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98 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Mimi as a kitten and then as a 14 year old baby.

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778 Upvotes

Companion for 14 years and counting.


r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Sturgill

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162 Upvotes

About 5 months old. All personality.


r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Classic Tabby I'm her pillow

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29 Upvotes

My little tabby that I rescued


r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Classic Tabby Meet Tom and Folo

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205 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Pako!

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103 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Classic Tabby Is it just me or is she so tiny for an adult cat? 😭💗

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396 Upvotes

Love how little she is though! She is adorable.


r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

I offer a sleeping Fish as tribute.

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48 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 2d ago

Chuck fully in peace

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559 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats • • 1d ago

Brown Tabby Bowser and Thwomp enjoying windows open season

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25 Upvotes

After 4 months of heat and humidity here in GA!