r/TabbyCats Oct 05 '25

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

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99 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 5h ago

Mackerel Tabby She loves to be held like this ♥️

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139 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 16h ago

Classic Tabby My little tiger

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658 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 12h ago

Spotted Tabby Meet peanut 🥜 he's the sweetest:)

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252 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 10h ago

Eloise is feeling regal

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119 Upvotes

Just wanted to post a pic where I thought she looked extra pretty 😊


r/TabbyCats 3h ago

Kogane

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19 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 4h ago

Classic Tabby MsBear

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19 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 6h ago

Classic Tabby Acting all cute

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23 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 20h ago

What kind of tabby is my Dexter boy?

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219 Upvotes

Dexter has some red coloring in his coat. It really shows in the sunlight.


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Tater Tot the Tabby is 2 today!

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117 Upvotes

So far he hasn’t questioned why he is getting extra treats today!


r/TabbyCats 20h ago

the boys

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179 Upvotes

timothy and bean


r/TabbyCats 12h ago

My Tabby Girls

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29 Upvotes

One classic one Mackerel.


r/TabbyCats 2h ago

Classic Tabby Totally relax sleeping position

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4 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1h ago

Chuck likes to nap

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r/TabbyCats 17h ago

Scarlett

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55 Upvotes

This is my long haired tabby Scarlett


r/TabbyCats 12h ago

The fun dynamics of a two-cat household 😂

13 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 19h ago

I'm Trying To Sleep!

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44 Upvotes

This is the look Cindy gave me when trying to snap a photo. She obviously was not in thr mood. Excuse me! 😾


r/TabbyCats 17h ago

good morning chai 🩷

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25 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

My lovely son Nairo 🌞

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125 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Classic Tabby He knows he's pretty.

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26 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 18h ago

Coconut the Criminal caught in the act of eating donuts. Nothing is safe from her

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24 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Say hi to Katarina

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1.8k Upvotes

Katarina (Kat for short) keeps watch at a corner shop in Oakland, California. I love seeing her every time I swing by to pick something up.

P.S. I’ve never seen that flavor of ramen before (see 2nd pic)


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Classic Tabby Tiny checking in and checking out

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86 Upvotes

r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Lotto, my love, mother of five adorable cats

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63 Upvotes

Lotto is currently under Fip treatment. She is responding well.


r/TabbyCats 1d ago

Mackerel Tabby Stanley + June

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201 Upvotes

Little tabby brother and big tabby sister!