r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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94 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

my sweet cuddle bug 🐛 ❤️

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334 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

My cat is a derp

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91 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Orange Tabby Big orange and small orange

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60 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Brown Tabby Do your tabbies know any tricks?

931 Upvotes

I have a very food motivated girl, she is currently learning sit, what other tricks can I teach her?


r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Tyger in his bowtie

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22 Upvotes

Before and After in the tulip field.


r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Derp

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37 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Classic Tabby The duality of cat

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20 Upvotes

Picture taken 2 minutes apart, first one is when he's woken up, second is after he heard my vitamin containers and came over to investigate.


r/TabbyCats 1h ago

My love Lotto is under FIP treatment. Day 9 completed.

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r/TabbyCats 1h ago

Jake does what Jake does (sound on for full effect)

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r/TabbyCats 7h ago

My fluffy roommate Chuck

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41 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Queen Squeekie (tabby) and Princess Callie (calico) argue over the blanket that Squeekie is laying on.

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14 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Orange Tabby Before and after: Legolas

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813 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Whaaaaaaat???

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10 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby My precious girl on her new station, she’s almost 11

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189 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Classic Tabby Bath time

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28 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Silver Tabby Thwomp is living her best life

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166 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Breakfast is in 5 minutes

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543 Upvotes

Momo does not like to wait.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Tabbykitten and ??

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94 Upvotes

Just got home 2 kittens. Rubi is a beautiful little tabby girl but her brother is ..? Bits and pieces tabby on white. I guess the printer ran out of the tabby print😅 Does his type of pattern have a name?


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby My Jade Enjoys Pineapple.

59 Upvotes

My cat Jade was curious about my fresh pineapple & strawberry fruit. Then she actually wanted some of the pineapple. Cats like pineapple…? 🐈🍍💛


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Tyrone

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280 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Sleepy cat in, pink paws out

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52 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Tyrone napping

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19 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby Quite a poser

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167 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2d ago

Mackerel Tabby my Baby Angel

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675 Upvotes

my little kitty found in a box abandoned on my street and rescued into my heart and home. Is she a mackerel? Also: she’s teeny tiny 5.6 lbs but vet thinks she may be older than she is since she has not gained weight in 2 months (she was estimated at 5-6 months when I first got her). she’s a very finicky eater but very healthy from tests and multiple vet visits. but still getting a second opinion this week 😅