Tabby - breed or colour?

morg_monster

Oh dear, well at least that might explain why your premiums were so high!!

gettingready

Just cancelled PetPlan for the kittens....

Will be looking at something else...for my 3 tabbies and one felix type LOL

925dancer

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

There's a pedigree tabby,mine was a british short hair and had papers to prove it or there is a DSH tabby colour.
DSH stands for domestic short hair.
The cats would of cost you a higher premium to insure if you told them they were just tabbies as they'd have assumed they were pedigrees,you have to stipulate DSH if they're not thoroughbreds.

What? I'm sorry what now?!

Tabby is still a coat patternation and not a breed type. BSH (British Short Hair) is the breed, tabby is the coat type. You said it there yourself "tabby colour".

All sorts of breeds come in all sorts of colours. it's like saying a blue coloured cat is a breed. Nope, still just a colour, you can get many peds that are blue in colour, one of the most common being BSH (British Short Hair) but it doesn't mean that all blue cats are to assumed a ped. it's just a coat colour descriptor, nothing more, nothing less.

The person at the insurance company was wrong, simple.

Taken from Wikipedia:
A tabby is a cat with a distinctive coat that features stripes, dots, or swirling patterns, usually together with an "M" mark on its forehead. Tabbies are sometimes erroneously assumed to be a cat breed.[1] In fact, the tabby pattern is found in many breeds of cat, as well as among the general mixed-breed or mongrel population. The tabby pattern is a naturally occurring feature that may be related to the coloration of the domestic cat's direct ancestor, the African Wildcat.

Croc_Mad

Just tell them they've got stripes! "Like bagpuss but ginger!" Haha!

LittleMissAspie

I did a quote for my cat the other day, put her down as Domestic Longhaired and it said it couldn't give me an online quote, I had to phone up. So I went back to my details and tried changing everything to figure out what was special about her, and when I changed it to Moggie it then gave me a quote. I thought Domestic and Moggie was the same? Moggie is just the colloquial word for it, no?

dizziblonde

Suki's down on her documents as "Breed: Moggy.... Distingushing Features: Rear offside leg missing"

The breed-moggy bit does make me smile when I read it. Should read breed: black and white tornado with how she's haring around the place at the moment.