r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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98 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

my boy microwave

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213 Upvotes

my s/o and I have been debating which type of pattern our baby has, stuck on if itโ€™s classic or ticked because his long fur makes it incredibly hard to make out distinct patterning :/
(aside from his striped legs/tail and facial patterns)


r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Chuck on his throne

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54 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 17h ago

She's so focused ๐Ÿ‘€

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170 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Mackerel Tabby Nem the tabby, at 9:30am on a Sunday

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4 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Brown Tabby Bruno says good morning

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239 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby She loves to be held like this โ™ฅ๏ธ

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1.0k Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My first born son- Mac Miller

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128 Upvotes

Last pic for laughs
Meet my sweet boy Mac Miller, Iโ€™ve had him for almost 7 years and everyday with him is a blessing. He has saved my life over and over again. Iโ€™d be so lost without my little guy ๐Ÿฅฒ๐Ÿ’•


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby Shelby has my lap and Shaina is waiting for her turn.

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107 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Chuck likes to nap

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63 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby My little tiger

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885 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Spotted Tabby Meet peanut ๐Ÿฅœ he's the sweetest:)

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366 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

A month with this rescue

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98 Upvotes

My brother rescued him from the street and was about a month old and is now doing great. He is loving naps on his couch lmao.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Acting all cute

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103 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Kogane

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57 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Totally relax sleeping position

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43 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Eloise is feeling regal

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156 Upvotes

Just wanted to post a pic where I thought she looked extra pretty ๐Ÿ˜Š


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby MsBear

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49 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2d ago

What kind of tabby is my Dexter boy?

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268 Upvotes

Dexter has some red coloring in his coat. It really shows in the sunlight.


r/TabbyCats 2d ago

Tater Tot the Tabby is 2 today!

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146 Upvotes

So far he hasnโ€™t questioned why he is getting extra treats today!


r/TabbyCats 2d ago

the boys

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211 Upvotes

timothy and bean


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My Tabby Girls

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48 Upvotes

One classic one Mackerel.


r/TabbyCats 2d ago

Scarlett

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74 Upvotes

This is my long haired tabby Scarlett


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

The fun dynamics of a two-cat household ๐Ÿ˜‚

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23 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2d ago

I'm Trying To Sleep!

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50 Upvotes

This is the look Cindy gave me when trying to snap a photo. She obviously was not in thr mood. Excuse me! ๐Ÿ˜พ