The mackerel tabby, often called a striped tabby or a tiger cat, has narrow stripes of dark fur instead of the blotches or swirls of the classic tabby. In the “broken mackerel” coat pattern ...

The ‘mackerel’ pattern features a dark stripe along the spine with thin vertical stripes that run down the flanks of the cat, very similar to the stripes seen on tigers. Spotted grey tabby cats have ...

Mackerel tabby - often called a tiger, this pattern has narrow parallel stripes all over. Classic tabby - the patterns are swirling and bold and sometimes referred to as a marble or blotched tabby.

A so-called "mackerel tabby" cat has dark tiger stripes, which coalesce into swirls and blotches in a "classic tabby" cat. Like other periodic natural patterns such as stripes on a zebra or spinal ...

The mackerel tabby, often called a striped tabby or a tiger cat, has narrow stripes of dark fur instead of the blotches or swirls of the classic tabby. In the "broken mackerel" coat pattern, the ...

Ticked tabby: Ticked tabby cats are a bit more difficult to distinguish. They don’t look like other tabby cats. The Moggie and Abyssinian breeds do not show the typical patterns on their body.

Cats with narrow stripes, the so-called 'mackerel' pattern, have a working copy of the gene. But if a mutation turns the gene off, the cat ends up with the blotchy 'classic' pattern, researchers said.

A tabby’s markings start appearing when the foetus is seven weeks old. At that point, the cradle-shaped organs known as follicles are fully developed, and they start to produce hairs.