r/TabbyCats • u/yumyumshop • 2h 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/DelaySpiritual7467 • 5h ago
How dare you human
I accidentally fell asleep and forgot to feed a late night meal
r/TabbyCats • u/AmyMakesItBeautiful • 4h ago
A years difference
I don't know when they were born but they came to me in July of 2025, love to my foster fails Taki and Cheeto
r/TabbyCats • u/HappyCamper0325 • 11h ago
Brown Tabby My gorgeous Penelope
She loves getting her picture taken
r/TabbyCats • u/ogtdawgswagmaster69 • 21h ago
Mackerel Tabby T. Rex getting creative at nap time
He is knocked out in all of these
r/TabbyCats • u/Financial_Air2418 • 11h ago
Classic Tabby Anyone else’s tabby have an obsession with shoes??
This is how Star likes to sleep indoors 🤣
r/TabbyCats • u/ToleratesVanilla13 • 6h ago
Silver Tabby Millie 🩶
In our new house, Millie loves sitting on the stairs. Sometimes she stretches too far and falls off the stair 😁🩶
r/TabbyCats • u/misanthropy11 • 12h ago
He is baby
Thought you might like a peep at this tabby baby
His adoption paperwork has him as a seal point DSH but he wasn’t born white but with chocolate classic marble tabby swirls and stripes. Cat genetics sub suggested seal point classic tabby & they may or may not fade as he darkens up in adulthood.
My older boy is thrilled to have a snuggle buddy
r/TabbyCats • u/Financial_Air2418 • 3h ago
Cats and shoes (pt2)
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Following on from my post about Star and shoes, this is her other fave, butt pats but ONLY when cuddling a shoe… she’s in 7th heaven!
r/TabbyCats • u/JD054 • 9h ago
Sleeping Tabby
Morning sleep and using a dirty sock as a pillow
r/TabbyCats • u/SpaceBoiLunkey • 1d ago
What type of tabby?
What type of tabby is my cat? She’s a fluffy DLH. Her name is Hilda.
r/TabbyCats • u/Character_Acadia_748 • 22h ago
Classic Tabby Happy 2nd Birthday Kahless!
Happy Birthday to the best baby ever!
r/TabbyCats • u/anglesneverright • 1d ago
Water Quality Control Inspector on duty
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r/TabbyCats • u/penkuinA • 22h ago
Welcome home Shimi!
Please say hi to our new family member Shimi, short for Sashimi! We adopted him from a shelter less than a week ago and he already is so affectionate. ❤️
r/TabbyCats • u/AnnieGetYaClothesOn • 23h ago
Classic Tabby My big boi
He eats diet food, he's just a big boy.