r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

Community Update ✨ 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 2h ago

Caught my boy daydreaming

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153 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 4h ago

How dare you human

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160 Upvotes

I accidentally fell asleep and forgot to feed a late night meal


r/TabbyCats 4h ago

A years difference

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115 Upvotes

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 11h ago

Brown Tabby My gorgeous Penelope

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206 Upvotes

She loves getting her picture taken


r/TabbyCats 8h ago

Mackerel Tabby Zelda is so purrfect!!! 😩🥹😻

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101 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Mackerel Tabby T. Rex getting creative at nap time

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963 Upvotes

He is knocked out in all of these


r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Classic Tabby Anyone else’s tabby have an obsession with shoes??

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131 Upvotes

This is how Star likes to sleep indoors 🤣


r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Silver Tabby Millie 🩶

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39 Upvotes

In our new house, Millie loves sitting on the stairs. Sometimes she stretches too far and falls off the stair 😁🩶


r/TabbyCats 12h ago

He is baby

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74 Upvotes

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 9h ago

Chuck keeping an eye out

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36 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 19h ago

Mackerel Tabby Meet tigger!

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130 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 9h ago

Sleeping Tabby

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15 Upvotes

Morning sleep and using a dirty sock as a pillow


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

What type of tabby?

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289 Upvotes

What type of tabby is my cat? She’s a fluffy DLH. Her name is Hilda.


r/TabbyCats 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 21h ago

Classic Tabby Happy 2nd Birthday Kahless!

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110 Upvotes

Happy Birthday to the best baby ever!


r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Classic Tabby Luna aka Fanny

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3 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Classic Tabby Just chillaxin

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28 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby You takin' to me?

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355 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Relaxing in the garden 🪴🩷

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70 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Water Quality Control Inspector on duty

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113 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

Welcome home Shimi!

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29 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Cool spot for a cool cat

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188 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

EDIT ME! Bella

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14 Upvotes

Just being a cat


r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Classic Tabby My big boi

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21 Upvotes

He eats diet food, he's just a big boy.