American Shorthair
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The American Shorthair is a breed of domestic cat believed to be descended from European cats brought to North America by early settlers to protect valuable cargo from mice and rats. According to the
Black–silver blotched tabby American Shorthair
Brown blotched tabby adult
Side profile of an adult head showing the typical short nose
Black–silver shaded female adult
Tabby cat
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A tabby cat, or simply tabby, is any domestic cat with a coat pattern distinguished by an M-shaped marking on its forehead, stripes by its eyes, cheeks, along its back, and around its legs and tail. T
American Shorthair
…well proportioned to the body. The American Shorthair is recognized in more than eighty different colors and patterns, ranging from the brown-patched tabby to the blue-eyed white, the silvers (tabbies, shaded, smokes, and cameos) to the Van-patterned calico, and many colors in between. Some even come in…
Mackerel tabby, with the distinctive striped pattern and forehead 'M'.
A European wildcat (Felis silvestris) bearing a similar coat pattern to that of a tabby cat. It is thought that the tabby pattern originates from the numerous related species of wildcat.
Typical tabby patterns in the head region: an 'M' on the forehead, bright eye rims and borders of the ears.
Mackerel