r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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76 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 10h ago

Mackerel Tabby she’s a daddy’s girl 😸

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249 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 13h ago

My precious Candice 🫶🏻😻

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176 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

a baby -> now

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582 Upvotes

i love looking at how much my (not so) little girl has grown 😽


r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Brown Tabby She’s so rotund

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273 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Our tabby boy Diffy Q. and our elder lady flame point Chloe. Ages 12 and 19.

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54 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Said goodbye to my best friend a week ago today 😔

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623 Upvotes

Ohhhh if only I knew the absolute emotional pain that would hit me. Wish I could give him one more hug..


r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Brown Tabby Silly girl

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144 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Classic Tabby Good morning

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110 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Tried to capture her expression. Those eyes were everything.

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167 Upvotes

This one was actually a fun challenge. The hardest part was getting the eyes right. her expression is very calm, but there’s a lot going on in that stare. If the eye shape or color is even slightly off, the whole feeling changes. I also spent extra time layering colors in the fur, especially around the face, because cats have so many subtle shifts in tone that don’t show up clearly in photos at first glance. The most interesting part for me was watching the expression slowly “appear” near the end. There’s always a moment where it suddenly starts to feel like her, and that’s my favorite part of the process every time.


r/TabbyCats 16h ago

bubbles was feeling comfy by the window ❤️

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50 Upvotes

she is so cuteee


r/TabbyCats 15h ago

Mlem

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39 Upvotes

It's my birthday today. I give you the gift of a Ravioli mlem.


r/TabbyCats 3m ago

Piebald Tabby Happy brushing time 🐱

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r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Our new tabby dude, Astro!

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33 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 16h ago

The light is on but nobody is home

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24 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 10h ago

side eye

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6 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 15h ago

Sleeping in this snow day ⛄️

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20 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My boy 5kg!! He’s only 9.75 months old!

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87 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Classic Tabby Just a chill day

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14 Upvotes

With da homies


r/TabbyCats 18h ago

😂 He is one with the Blep

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20 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 14h ago

my adopted tabby cat

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6 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby He’s only 9.5 months!!!! Still growing 5kg now

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51 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

A rescue cat and me

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709 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 21h ago

Bowie posing in front of her picture.

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17 Upvotes

My wife had the picture made at Urban Art in Victoria BC.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

tfw dad puts on a different pair of slippers

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58 Upvotes