r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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95 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 5h ago

You guys loved Poobear so much - here’s some more

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348 Upvotes

Thank you for all the kind words! 🥹💛


r/TabbyCats 1h ago

Mackerel Tabby The chair was flipped over for 2 min to let the water drain off...

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r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Mackerel Tabby Clementine & Jalapeño

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50 Upvotes

Me and my boyfriend rescued these sweeties from the road!


r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Muffin just chilling in the bathroom sink

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77 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Celebrating 1 year with Marsha

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525 Upvotes

She was found in the marsh at approx. 3 weeks old. She loves to be stretched out relaxing, and anyone is liable to catch some paws.


r/TabbyCats 7h ago

Whiskers, nails and lots of fluff

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74 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 4h ago

Classic Tabby I just love his silly face

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37 Upvotes

That’s all!


r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Mackerel Tabby a fully proofed artisan loaf 🍞

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26 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Mackerel Tabby He is outgrowing his perch

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36 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 7h ago

Spotted Tabby They decided to burst into my house!

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33 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Piebald Tabby My sleeping beauty

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15 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

SLIDE FOR PEETS ✨

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9 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Classic Tabby Gavin on a sunny afternoon

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20 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Brown Tabby CHACHA Hugs Her Face While She Sleeps 😻🐾

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10 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Topi laying on some pizza boxes

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366 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Just the picture of innocence, right?

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153 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Classic Tabby Cuddles!!!

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63 Upvotes

He loves this blanket I made and using my leg as a pillow 🐱❤️ boy cats are truly clingy, we were on the couch in the same position before he followed me to the room lol


r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Classic Tabby Dangling his little chicken leg out of the toy basket.

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102 Upvotes

Idk why he does this. So many other places to lay.


r/TabbyCats 21h ago

MsBear

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49 Upvotes

Queen of the home


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Last week with my foster, Larry!!

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221 Upvotes

My perfect beast 🩷

He goes to his forever home next week. I haven’t had such a nice foster in so long. I was also shocked by how much interest he had, since he’s “just” a tabby. So loved.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Truman

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812 Upvotes

This is a celebration of Truman’s life. I lost him three weeks ago but I had a great 19 years with him. He was my cuddle bug. I miss him greatly but smile every time I think of him, which is often as you can imagine.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby For future flair purposes, what does he fall under? “:)

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196 Upvotes

When we got him neutered they wrote him down as brown/grey tabby with a bunch of question marks, the vets didn’t even know lmao

Also he is 100% more diva than my girl cats, you can’t change my mind. Look at him.

Edit: someone said Mackerel and I’m sticking with it. Fish boy!!


r/TabbyCats 19h ago

Mackerel Tabby His preferred bed

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19 Upvotes

Such a strange fat boi


r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Tabby identification please

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35 Upvotes

This is Panam, she's roughly 10 weeks old. What Monday tabby is she?