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A 19th-century drawing of a tabby cat. The English term tabby originally referred to "striped silk taffeta", from the French word tabis, meaning "a rich watered silk".This can be further traced to the Middle French atabis (14th century), which stemmed from the Arabic term عتابية / ʿattābiyya. [4]
Chelsea Clinton's cat Socks (1989–2009) lived in the White House from 1993 to 2001. Socks was a bicolor cat with low-grade spotting, or tuxedo cat.. A bicolor cat (also bi-color cat or Tuxedo Cat) is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example, solid black, tabby, or colorpointed. [1]
By 1886 his cat pictures had been more widely noticed and he was commissioned by Macmillan to illustrate a children's book, Mrs Tabby's Establishment. [ 1 ] : 18-19 His fame became established with the publication in the 1886 Christmas edition of The Illustrated London News of his first drawing of anthropomorphised cats, A Kitten's Christmas ...
A cat who is an art forger. Korky the Cat: Korky the Cat: James Crighton [44] A black and white cat whose gags ran in The Dandy. Krosp: Girl Genius: Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio: Emperor of All Cats. [45] Krazy Kat: Krazy Kat: George Herriman: Black cat who is in love with Ignatz the mouse. Yet Ignatz always hurles a brick at his head. [46] Kuro ...
The black-footed cat has an extra-fast metabolism, so it literally needs to be constantly hunting and eating just to keep its adorable little body going. Image credits: an1malpulse #24
A domestic long-haired tabby and white bicolor cat This domestic long-haired cat appears to be of partial Persian ancestry, with a relatively flat nose and fine hair. Semi Longhaired Ginger, Black and White Torbie. Domestic long-haireds come in all genetically possible cat colors including tabby, tortoiseshell, bicolor cat, and smoke. Domestic ...
She produced two white kittens in her litter, the best of which we kept, and named White Rose, then applied for permission to breed White Russians. To our knowledge, the white cat from Russia or Siberia, is the only cat suitable to cross with a Russian Blue. White Rose grew to be a beautiful white queen, long, svelte, elegant, with all the ...
Amber tabby and white adult female in snow. The Norwegian Forest Cat is adapted to survive Norway's cold weather. [2] [3] Its ancestors may include cold-adapted black and white British Shorthair cats brought to Norway from Great Britain some time after 1000 AD by the Vikings, and longhaired cats brought to Norway by Crusaders around the 14th century.