tabby
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A 13-year-old tabby cat that went missing 10 years ago has found her way back home.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“I called Delta and my staff went and got me a carrier, and I brought this kitten home,” she said of the gray tabby the couple named Tex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Genovese allegedly stole a 2 1/2-year-old orange tabby cat named Lancelot from a resident in Ventura, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
I jumped back up, and the tabby prowled around me.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
I foster cats and I’m actually fostering two sister tabbies right now — Lucy and Ethel — and the CatCafe Lounge has taken probably 12 of the cats I’ve fostered and gotten them adopted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2022
There are spotted shorthairs, eyes turned upward in remorse; blue-and-green tabbies with Groucho Marx eyebrows knitted in confusion.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
Oh! ye who visit the cloister, and see the cats, think well on this legend, and especially on the deep identity of witches with tabbies!
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland
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