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The Unique Tabby Cat

Family: Tabby cats are very interesting animals. All of the cats in the family of Felidae have sharp teeth and claws, they all pounce to catch their prey, they have a long tail, and they have four paws. Some examples in the family of Felidae are tigers, lions, leopards, and panthers.

Animal: The tabby cats move with thier four paws and on all fours. They use their sharp teeth to capture their food and they chew their food to digest it. The tabby cats eat cat food, birds, rats, or other small animals. It takes three to four years for an average cat to mature to its full size. They grow to about eighteen pounds. To adapt to their environment these cats use their really good eye site to focus on their prey from a far distance, they're nocturnal so they can catch their prey while the prey is sleeping, they have claws to climb trees and to rip up their prey, and they have really quiet paws while they walk so predators can't hear them. The gestation period for a tabby cat is 63 days to 65 days. Tabby cats usually have an average of four kittens at a time and this happens five times a year. The classification of a tabby cat is that the Kingdom is Animalia, the Phylum is Chordata, the Class is Mammalia, the Order is Carnivora, the Family is Felidae, the Genus is Felis, and the Species is //Felis catus//. The male and the females do not have any differences between them, except that they have different reproductive systems. The tabby cat is very unique because it can either be a really gentle and nice pet, or it can be a vicious, meat eating wild animal.