{"id":1201,"date":"2016-04-26T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2016-04-26T03:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:31:49","slug":"newsday-tuesday-national-tabby-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday\u2014National Tabby Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_217\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fry-lily-1-10_0010-4x6-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lily\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fry-lily-1-10_0010-4x6-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fry-lily-1-10_0010-4x6-2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t think they\u2019d need to create special days for cats. In your household isn\u2019t every day special for your cats? Sadly, that isn\u2019t the case for all cats. So companies and organizations do their best to create awareness in hopes that all cats will have the love and luxury our cats do.<\/p>\n<p>The first ever National Tabby Day is scheduled for Saturday, April 30. If you have a tabby or know one, this is a good time to celebrate him or her. There will be a plethora of kittens needing homes soon. Many of them are tabbies. How about adopting one or two? They come in many flavors\u2014orange, mostly grey, mostly black, and a variety of mixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Tabby is a coat color and not a breed. There are tabbies and tabby-points in many breeds <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/goldie-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Goldie\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/goldie-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/goldie.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>of cats.<\/p>\n<p>The basic tabby patterns are known as classic, blotched (or patched), ticked, spotted, and mackerel. Most tabbies have a distinct (or not so distinct) M on their forehead.<\/p>\n<p>Tabbies come in long coats, short coats and everything in between. There are petite tabbies and large ones, dark and light ones, friendly and skittish ones.<\/p>\n<p>Some think the tabby coat comes from the cats\u2019 ancestors\u2014for example, the African, Asiatic, or European wildcat.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had cats in every flavor, Persian, Himalayan, Siamese, tortie, grey-and-white, black, brown and white, pure white, and a lot of calicos, but Lily is my first tabby. They call her a dilute tabby because her markings are soft. Some say she\u2019s a torbie\u2014because her tabby markings involve three colors\u2014there\u2019s a soft shade of orange mixed into her fur.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Saturday, April 30 is National Tabby Day. Go online and see what you can do to celebrate these interesting cats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcement<\/strong>: I\u2019ll be talking about my Klepto Cat Mysteries this Friday evening (April 29) \u00a0at 7 at Book Ends\u2014the old church on the corner of El Roblar and Pueblo in Meiners Oaks. Join us for an enjoyable evening in a most interesting setting. It\u2019s part of Wordfest.<\/p>\n<p>More National Cat Holidays revealed tomorrow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn\u2019t think they\u2019d need to create special days for cats. In your household isn\u2019t every day special for your cats? Sadly, that isn\u2019t the case for all cats. 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