Why do tabby cats look so good? (1)

Why do tabby cats look so good? (1)

First of all, let me clarify my definition of tabby cats. Generally, it refers to cats with a black base (black and gray hair) and fishbone tabby patterns. They may have albino spots, but the area does not exceed 50%. As for orange cats, orange cats all have raccoon patterns, but because the color is light, the visual effect is very different from black tabby patterns, so they are not included in the discussion of tabby cats for the time being.

Tabby cats are good-looking for three main reasons:

1. Thick natural black eyeliner.

Tabby cats are either completely black, or even if they have albino spots, they are generally distributed on the abdomen and limbs – that is, the area around the eyes of most tabby cats is a black base (the area with black and gray hair, not the white hair area), and the skin in the black and gray hair area is black, so the exposed skin on the eye socket forms a circle of black, which is the so-called natural black eyeliner.

Needless to say, the role of eyeliner is to expand the visual effect of the eyes and make the eyes more lively. ↓ (There are tabby cats with thicker eye makeup in the comment area)

For cats of other colors, this eyeliner is not guaranteed.

The eyeliner of white and orange cats is lighter in color, almost like they are wearing no makeup. To achieve the effect of big eyes like those of KISS ME, you can only rely on your eyes growing big enough or having deep eye sockets.

Some orange cats have brown eyeliner, but only partially, unlike black cats which almost 100% have black eyeliner.

White cats wear less eyeliner, which theoretically should be nude pink and not very visible.

White cats of certain breeds wear more eyeliner, but white cats with dark eyeliner tend to have dark circles under their eyes, and are not as good-looking as gray-black fur + black eyeliner.

A black cat with black eyeliner all over its body… That’s equivalent to having no eyeliner.

Cows, if the area around the eyes is completely black, then you can’t see the eyeliner like a black cat. If it is completely white, then you have no eyeliner like a white cat. Only half black and half white can create an eyeliner effect, and the probability is low:

similar to the calico cat, no matter whether the eyes are white, yellow or black, they can’t be touched by the eyeliner. For example, the calico cat in my community has beautiful eyes when you look at it up close, but it suffers from the lack of eyeliner:

only the calico cat with black raccoons can have the same eyeliner effect as a civet cat (↓The eyeliner on the left eye of this cat is obviously thicker than the right eye).

(There are more obvious comparison pictures in the comment area, with black eyeliner on one side of the black and gray bangs and nude pink eyeliner on the other side of the yellow bangs)

The key reason why civet cats have beautiful eyeliner is that the black base can render the eye sockets black, while the surrounding fur is visually black and gray, not pure black, so it can set off the black eyeliner. This is difficult for other patterns to achieve, only the black raccoon pattern can.