tabby
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In New York, apparently it’s now financially impossible to own a tabby without state assistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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
The cat, a tabby with white chest and paws, was at the further end of the little yard, walking slowly and deliberately along the side of a pile of logs.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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
I foster cats and I’m actually fostering two sister tabbies right now — Lucy and Ethel — and the CatCafe Lounge has taken probably 12 of the cats I’ve fostered and gotten them adopted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
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
It attached itself to no person, as was the case with some of the others, but curiously took a particular fancy to one of my short-haired silver tabbies; the two appeared always together.
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables
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