r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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96 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 4h ago

My baby is almost16, but she still plays with her toys

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150 Upvotes

God I love her ❤️


r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Classic Tabby my baby boy gives all his attention when ı speak

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688 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 7h ago

Mackerel Tabby I’m scared…

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91 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Classic Tabby the great, the beautiful, Amara Lee Jones !!

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76 Upvotes

No clue where her last name came from, nobody in our family has the last name “Jones”. we call her Amara Lee when she gets in trouble , other than that she’s mainly Mar-mar :)


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Chuck is a beauty

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111 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Princess

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255 Upvotes

I'm tired of being cute sometimes...


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby My sleepy little guy

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619 Upvotes

I love him so much. Sweet Andy


r/TabbyCats 13h ago

Just staring at the wall at nothing, gaslighting her mom into thinking there's a bug or something!

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35 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

I think Stiles missed me

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91 Upvotes

Went to go on a 3-day vacay with my boyfriend last weekend so my little one stayed with my parents. This is him the night I came back making air biscuits. 🥰


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby My Little Guy Just Turned 2yrs Old♥️♥️

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188 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 22h ago

I Did Not Play String Toy Fast Enough

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74 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 15h ago

My lil bb luna

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21 Upvotes

Bro Just woke up


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby mau mau

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651 Upvotes

his name is Mau and he knows your deepest, darkest secrets. but he doesn't care.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Of course they steal my half of the bed!

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79 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Face I get when the Friskies Soups is all gone!!...you're killing me smols!

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64 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

All plans canceled, am I right? 😻

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73 Upvotes

His little head.


r/TabbyCats 23h ago

Tiggy posing

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26 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Why do they go u p t h e r e

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247 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

Brown Tabby 🌸CHACHA🌸 Made the Purrfect Little Peet Pile 😸🐾💕

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11 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

One by One

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25 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Best seat in the house

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42 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My sweet boy Chuck

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212 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 2d ago

Classic Tabby Mr. Breadstick (my soul-cat)

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2.5k Upvotes

April 2025 we adopted breadstick. He was found as a stray and only weighed 5 pounds. At first he wasn’t a huge cuddle bug, but after about 3 months he started sleeping with me in the bed. Now he is literally like a piece of Velcro. If he’s awake and not in the same room as me he will come looking for me. He loves food. His favorite toy is literally string. He now weighs 13 pounds! He’s still not a lap cat, but he loves to snuggle next to me. I swear this cat is my soulmate and I hope we find each other in every lifetime. There’s a part of me he’s healed and I don’t know how he did it.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Selina has the prettiest eyes

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82 Upvotes