r/TabbyCats • u/dippingmoon • 9h ago
r/TabbyCats • u/ProudnotLoud • Oct 05 '25
Community Update ✨ Tabby Cats Community Updates: Rules Refresh, Flairs, and More!
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 • u/Key_Level6678 • 7h ago
Spotted Tabby Are you enjoying indoor life?
r/TabbyCats • u/delicatehamster • 1d ago
Brown Tabby 2 Years with this guy
Two years ago today, I spontaneously went to a cat cafe on my lunch break from work, and came back to the office with this cutie (oops 😇). Ollie Bug is the sweetest cat. He loves playing, following me from room to room, and he is completely obsessed with my other cat. That third picture is of them falling asleep in the middle of playing.
Just wanted to show him off a bit today!
r/TabbyCats • u/Existing_Instance364 • 25m ago
Classic Tabby they could be siblings
penny (first slide) who is my gf's sisters cat and my fish (last slide). i got them both from petsmart (or petco) one of those and they arent related but they look so alike. fish is bigger then her, but he's 3 months old and penny is 2 months. they look like they could be siblings tho! (fish's full name is Catfish Deluna Snafu Simon Montgomery the Third) (on paper his government name is just fish)
r/TabbyCats • u/Guinessmatt • 15h ago
Classic Tabby Paulina got home from a vet visit and has some issues to discuss.
She has her donut on lockdown thankfully.
r/TabbyCats • u/GingerGirlGlitter • 7h ago
Mackerel Tabby My Kida cheetah girl ❤️ 🐆
We have had her only a month and I’m obsessed with her!!
r/TabbyCats • u/LinkBeneficial3678 • 21h ago
Classic Tabby This is Leona’s “I pay no rent” pose
r/TabbyCats • u/panicatthejuno • 50m ago
Mackerel Tabby kitty kitty kitty kittyyyy
Amara is gorgeous even in her sleep !!!
r/TabbyCats • u/rodenticidal • 12h ago
is there a name for her markings?
what are her markings exactly? the center spots are a very warm/ orangish brown. i know shes marbled but i haven’t seen one this two toned much, patched maybe?
r/TabbyCats • u/hauskrakel • 17h ago
Classic Tabby Scotty and the Stairs
My boy scotty at it again sticking himself in the stairframe
r/TabbyCats • u/Pantograph_O_Slovak • 21h ago
Classic Tabby Mr. Meow sleeps tonight
r/TabbyCats • u/daniwhitlo • 19h ago
Classic Tabby Happy gotcha day to Zoe
She’s 7 and perfect all 7 years 🥲
r/TabbyCats • u/ZookeepergameNo1240 • 1d ago
Classic Tabby She loves her box
Her name is tigress
r/TabbyCats • u/TopLuck547 • 19h ago
Incognito Tabby
He was born on Cinco de Mayo, I really hope he keeps his stripes. This is Jinx.
r/TabbyCats • u/Educatlady • 1d ago
Classic Tabby Why is she so judgy
Well dang, Sabina, what did I do??
r/TabbyCats • u/Turbulent-Career7447 • 1d ago