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Ithaca Kitty started a craze for plush toys that lasted from 1892 until after WWI.Later, the company used Chessie and her kittens, Nip and Tuck, to promote war bonds for World War II. Chessie, a tabby cat, was featured in the famous “Sleep like a Kitten” ad campaign for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), to promote the company’s sleeper cars in 1933.Tabby cat Stubbs, the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, was elected in 1997 and served for 20 years until he passed away.The Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a tabby cat.Cartoon characters Heathcliff, Garfield, and Bill the Cat (from Bloom County) are all tabbies.

Milo, from the 1989 film, The Adventures of Milo and Otis, was an orange tabby.

Tabby Morris the Cat became the mascot for 9 Lives cat food in 1969.

We know that people began referring to striped cats as “tabi” cats as early as the 1690s. The stripes on tabby cats apparently reminded the English people of this special cloth. Interestingly, the French word for “striped silk taffeta” is “tabis.” English people called the cloth “tabby,” short for Attabiya. The silk cloth produced by this district eventually found its way to England, and became very popular. The district itself was named for Attab ibn Asid, who was the governor of Mecca in the early 600s. There is a district in Baghdad called Attabiya, that was known for making beautiful striped silk cloth. The word “tabby” comes from the Muslim world, and a special silk fabric. There are many, many examples of this strategy in nature. The American Bittern, for example, which is a vertically striped bird, stretches its neck up and sways when approached by a predator, looking for all the world just like the reeds in which it lives. The trick isn’t unique to cats, by the way.

In fact, this non-agouti gene doesn’t always work perfectly, which is why many solid-colored cats have a hint of striping. The non-agouti gene prevents the hair from producing that lighter pigment while the strand is growing. It’s a gene that just hides the tabby-ness. The non-agouti gene isn’t a “non-tabby” gene. Here’s where you might argue that a solid-colored cat is, in fact, not a tabby cat. In other words, there will be no gene to stop and start hair pigmentation and he will end up looking like a solid-colored cat. But if a cat gets two recessive genes – one from his mom and one from his dad – he will be non-agouti. The agouti gene is dominant, which means if a cat gets even one from a parent, he will have agouti fur and look like a tabby cat. That's how agouti hair strands get their bands of color. Then it slows the pigmentation down in the middle, and then speeds it up again at the end. When a hair is first growing, the agouti gene allows it to be fully pigmented. The agouti gene messes with pigmentation while each individual strand of hair is growing. The first set of genes that we need to talk about when discussing tabby-ness is the agouti gene, which allows hairs to be banded with darker and lighter colors.