British Shorthair Brown Mackerel Tabby

The mackerel tabby mc is the default wild type pattern with the classic pattern being recessive mc.

British shorthair brown mackerel tabby. Tabby is a coat pattern and not a breed it consists of four patterns mackerel spotted classic and ticked. Brown tabby coloured british shorthair cats these cats have a deep and subtle colouration with markings of dense jet black on a rich copper brown ground. The background hair consists of light and dark bands intermingled with dark lines spots or swirls layered on top. Nose leather can be black but brick red noses are preferred.

The four known distinct patterns each having a sound genetic explanation are the mackerel classic ticked and spotted tabby patterns. The british shorthair is a relatively powerful looking large cat having a broad chest strong thick set legs with rounded paws and a medium length blunt tipped tail. These vertical stripes are highly reminiscent of fish bones which was the inspiration behind the name. The spotted tabby is essentially a mackerel tabby with a modifier gene which breaks up the markings from stripes into spots.

The mackerel tabby is the most common tabby cat available. She is a brown mackerel tabby exotic shorthair cat and is 1 year and 7 months old. This is larry formerly known as purrecious. An overly pale brown ground colour constitutes a fault in this combination.

The coat on the back flanks head ears and tail should be tipped with color. Recessive genes require two copies one from each parent to be expressed. We have classic silver tabby and spotty kittens available in 2020 there are 4 types of silver tabby british shorthair. The mackerel silver tabby.

British shorthairs come in many colours and the silver tabby british shorthair cat is a very interesting mix of colour genetics. What colour is a tabby cat. It is basically a domestic cat with a coat pattern made of orange or gray background banded hairs and darker vertical stripes. A fifth pattern is formed by any of the four basic patterns when part of a patched pattern a patched tabby then is a calico or tortoiseshell cat with patches of tabby coat such cats are called caliby and torbie respectively in cat fancy.

Tabby occurs in several colours the most common are brown tabby silver and orange tabby. The spotted silver tabby.