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Enter Sleek, the crabby tabby cat, and the Rev. Vicarious Cronch, the biblically recondite goat: interlocutors, speaking beasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

My cats, Cutie and Socks — one’s a tabby and the other is a tuxedo cat — wake me up by mewing and walking on me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Who knows how long the tenacious tabby would have continued with this Sisyphean task had Rumi not stepped in?

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025

Let’s say you want to remember ten animals: elephant, giraffe, cow, duck, bison, echidna,* sheep, praying mantis, ladybug, and tabby cat.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

These untamed mousers would eventually evolve into the fluffy tabbies, Siberians and ragdolls that dominate today’s social-media algorithms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023

I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2022

For example, if he hears the expression “It’s raining cats and dogs,” he expects tabbies and terriers to fall from the skies.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021

"If your tabbies took to drinking, you would see the use, I'm sure," laughed Polly, from the corner, which was a perfect posy-bed of girls.

From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott