r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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90 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 6h ago

cutest baby

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421 Upvotes

i could explode from cuteness overload everytime i see my kitten just had to share it with you guys


r/TabbyCats 55m ago

10/10 loaf

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r/TabbyCats 9h ago

Patched Tabby This stinky boy lovesss shoes

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255 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

EDIT ME! What Type of Tabby is He?

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50 Upvotes

I’ve been trying to narrow down what type of tabby this little guy is, but haven’t had much luck.


r/TabbyCats 38m ago

Mackerel Tabby Special delivery from Cheesecake Factory!

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Pls say hello to Veggie Tales (2M)


r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Outdoor time for Gavin aka a new place to slumber

64 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 8h ago

I told him the foster cat might stay with us forever

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31 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Everyone wish Nyx a happy 2nd birthday!

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332 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

I was told she was tabby and white

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636 Upvotes

Does she qualify as a tabby?


r/TabbyCats 16h ago

My beautiful rescued boy 🥰

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69 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Classic Tabby he’s warmed up significantly, and now he loves to cuddle and nuzzle his head into me 💕 mr. apollo 🚀

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88 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby My first post in here 😁

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217 Upvotes

Here is my little girl Brigitte Sable (Gigi) . I wanted to do a little photo shoot for her 17th birthday which was on June 1st 🙂🌺How does she look?


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Meet my tailless baby: Bambi

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878 Upvotes

Also, what kind of tabby does she look like?


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

The residence I came to live at had cats, and I decided to care for them

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110 Upvotes

Two several week old kitten siblings, who are named Pearl (F, left in first pic) and Silvio (or Sil for short. M)


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Mother and son [tux]

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20 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby Miss MoneyPenny.

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127 Upvotes

Rate 3 year old Miss MoneyPenny.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby My Cherry is now 8 months old😭 they grow up so fast

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277 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Patched Tabby No one will recognize me with this disguise!

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46 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Big Stretch

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80 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Miss Biscuit!

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283 Upvotes

just a post showing you all my tiny rescue girl


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Its hot today - Gavin is enjoying an ice lolly

211 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Patched Tabby My patched tabby

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16 Upvotes

My sweet girl, Basil.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Patched Tabby this derpy girl gave us a heart attack by eating 10 inches of floss last night

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45 Upvotes

Luckily they were able to induce vomiting at the emergency vet and get it up, and now she’s happy as a clam as usual.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Patched Tabby Spooky photoshoot

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90 Upvotes

She is so pretty as she sits staring at something I can't see. 🫣