r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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95 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 7h ago

You guys loved Poobear so much - here’s some more

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484 Upvotes

Thank you for all the kind words! 🥹💛


r/TabbyCats 4h ago

Mackerel Tabby The chair was flipped over for 2 min to let the water drain off...

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174 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

Mackerel Tabby Clementine & Jalapeño

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140 Upvotes

Me and my boyfriend rescued these sweeties from the road!


r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Meet Shō

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52 Upvotes

He's my third baby! Found him outside my house gobbling down food. I'm curious what you all think! Do you think he's going to end up being a long hair? I'm guessing he's around 8-10 weeks old? Vet visit already scheduled!


r/TabbyCats 7h ago

Muffin just chilling in the bathroom sink

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92 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 43m ago

Meet Zeke

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Zeke is a feisty, adventurous two-year-old who I sometimes cat-sit for a neighbor.

He has the sweetest squeak for a meow (sometimes opens his mouth without an audible meow coming out), loves Churu and his cat tree, as well as sitting atop folded paper shopping bags. When I watch TV, he makes it known he’d prefer I sit on the floor so he can better walk towards me.


r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Classic Tabby I just love his silly face

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46 Upvotes

That’s all!


r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Mackerel Tabby a fully proofed artisan loaf 🍞

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41 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 21h ago

Celebrating 1 year with Marsha

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536 Upvotes

She was found in the marsh at approx. 3 weeks old. She loves to be stretched out relaxing, and anyone is liable to catch some paws.


r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Whiskers, nails and lots of fluff

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78 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 8h ago

Mackerel Tabby He is outgrowing his perch

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36 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Piebald Tabby My sleeping beauty

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24 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 5h ago

SLIDE FOR PEETS ✨

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16 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 4h ago

Ziggy!

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13 Upvotes

This is my kitty Ziggy. I have trained him to do various tasks. Here’s him playing the drums!


r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Spotted Tabby They decided to burst into my house!

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31 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Brown Tabby CHACHA Hugs Her Face While She Sleeps 😻🐾

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15 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 9h ago

Classic Tabby Gavin on a sunny afternoon

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22 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Topi laying on some pizza boxes

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364 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Just the picture of innocence, right?

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161 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Classic Tabby Cuddles!!!

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66 Upvotes

He loves this blanket I made and using my leg as a pillow 🐱❤️ boy cats are truly clingy, we were on the couch in the same position before he followed me to the room lol


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Dangling his little chicken leg out of the toy basket.

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106 Upvotes

Idk why he does this. So many other places to lay.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

MsBear

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49 Upvotes

Queen of the home


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Last week with my foster, Larry!!

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224 Upvotes

My perfect beast 🩷

He goes to his forever home next week. I haven’t had such a nice foster in so long. I was also shocked by how much interest he had, since he’s “just” a tabby. So loved.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Truman

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824 Upvotes

This is a celebration of Truman’s life. I lost him three weeks ago but I had a great 19 years with him. He was my cuddle bug. I miss him greatly but smile every time I think of him, which is often as you can imagine.