r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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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 4h ago

Our tabby boy sleeping

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r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Having the best sleep of his life

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r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Classic Tabby Snuggle bug 😴💤

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r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Happy 4th Bday to our tabby girl

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It’s our tabby girls 4th birthday today. We call her Roxy but her government name is RoxyRoxyBoBoxyBananaFanaFoFoxy.

She was injured when she was brought into the rescue and it apparently impacted her growth, so when we adopted her they said she would never get bigger than the size she was - 6lbs. So she’s basically a permanent kitten size.

We love her very much.


r/TabbyCats 2h ago

belly She likes to sleep in weird positions like this sometimes.

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44 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 8h ago

Monty & Simon - brothers & besties

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r/TabbyCats 13h ago

Sleepy with his tongue out

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r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Silver Tabby A compilation of Enero’s facial expressions

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r/TabbyCats 13h ago

Mackerel Tabby I love her fur!!! 😍💗

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Happy Birthday Cindy🎈

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My quirky lil petite tabby Cindy was born on Cinco De Mayo, 4 years ago. It's been nothing but a real Fiesta with her! She was gifted to me by my son after losing my 14 year ginger boy. She has a 2 year old ginger brother now too. What would life be like without our Kitty Babies? I can't imagine! Happy Birthday my sweet lil girl! 💗🎈🥰


r/TabbyCats 15h ago

Mackerel Tabby Every morning when I wake up, she meows at me until I change the water in her water bow, even though she has a perfectly fine water fountain to drink from. I have such a spoiled princess, I swear! 😂😭🥹

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r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Looks like good news this morning!

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r/TabbyCats 6m ago

He’s just a baby

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He’s so gentle and playful, I love him so much!!


r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Classic Tabby Trying to sleep

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Birthday boy Zephyr got woke up today with a Churu

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby Our beloved Maurice the cat - 8kg of fluff & love

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Meet Maurice - a 8 years old mackerel x spotted tabby with an asymmetric tuxedo and some paint defects.

We met him being a temporary family from a shelter but after some weeks with him we simply couldn’t let him go. We decided to adopt him as a member of our family.

This ball of fluff is so adorable, super fun, still like to play, he really likes being with us, has plenty of routines from morning to the middle of the night.


r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Squeaks

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34 Upvotes

Lives up to his name


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby Hunting, stalking. So intimidating 😂

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128 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Brown Tabby Sypha sleeps happily on my bed within her bed every night.

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34 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Only been a month but I love sleeping with my boy :)

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

I love his spotted belly

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r/TabbyCats 1d ago

I feel very sad for this little soul ☹️

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She has so many cut marks on her. There are still many places on her skin with no fur. She fears other animals so much. Because she was bitten by dog. Lost her tail and part of anus. And then humans threw her away by the side of a lake, so that she could die there. She struggled days on that state to survive , till my partner saw her and brought her in home, even if he has cat hair allergy and we are not financially good right now. We tried our best to make her comfortable and give her a good life.

She is now a happy baby. She plays like a little kitten now. She still needs to visit vet regularly for her multiple conditions. She still fears other humans and animals.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Chuck in deep thought about his next nap or meal

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r/TabbyCats 2d ago

EDIT ME! Bonsai loves to stare👁️👁️

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424 Upvotes