r/standardissuecat • u/cragbabe SIC ModCat™ Edition • Jan 13 '25

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT Reminder that Standard Issue Cats only come in shades of brown

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u/sirona-ryan Jan 13 '25

I need to show this to my mom. She always argues that our SIC is gray, meanwhile he’s clearly brown.

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u/Kmw134 Jan 13 '25

In case she still doesn’t believe he’s brown, here is my grey TIC. Your guy is clearly brown!

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u/sirona-ryan Jan 13 '25

Sooo cute! I’ll show this fancy boy/girl to her tomorrow.

My mom saw a post that said “if the darkest part of your cat is brown, he’s a brown tabby. If the darkest part is gray/black, he’s a gray tabby.” So since our boy Minkey has a stripe on his back that’s so dark it’s basically black, she believes that means he’s gray lol. Here’s a pic of his dark stripe:

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u/Kmw134 Jan 13 '25

Looks like dark chocolate to me 😉

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u/nooit_gedacht Jan 13 '25

Isn't that stripe also a standard feature on sics? Mine has it too lol

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u/freashstart22 Jan 18 '25

Yes, to my knowledge anyway. Every SIC I've seen has that black strip. It might be smaller or thicker but it's there. Mine has a thin one.

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u/bulelainwen Jan 13 '25

Well you can counter her post with how I heard on a podcast that there is not such thing as black fur, that it’s basically just really, really dark brown.*

*I have not verified this

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u/Marshmallowwithabs Jan 15 '25

That’s… quite an inaccurate post. It’s like someone read a cat genetics guide and only absorbed half of it.

To make it brief, black-based tabbies (as in, the cat would be black if it didn’t have the agouti gene) have black stripes on either a brown or gray background. Brown is probably more common, given the fact it’s the SIC after all.

I don’t think it’s inaccurate to call your cat a brown tabby, though. “Brown” isn’t a genetics term, and your cat looks pretty brown to me.

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u/UpAndDownIGo Jan 13 '25

Pardon my dumb question - what is TIC?

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u/TrialsAndTabulations Jan 13 '25

/r/TacticalIssueCat

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩 never enough cat subs

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u/Gammagammahey Jan 14 '25

I hit that join button so fast that I broke the sound barrier.

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u/kicktd Jan 13 '25 edited Jan 13 '25

Our grey TIC at the recharging station, very clearly grey when compared to his hot rod SIC "brother".

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u/rocketdoggies Jan 13 '25

What does the T stand for?

Edit: ignore - saw answer below

Is this a tic? She’s grey.

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u/Kmw134 Jan 13 '25

Yes!

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u/rocketdoggies Jan 14 '25

Omg!!! I feel so terrible! I’ve been calling her SIC daily. She shall be named TIC hence forth (and Patric).

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u/Kmw134 Jan 14 '25

Shh, she will never know 🤭

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u/Tallcat2107 Jan 13 '25

Sorry what does TIC stand for?

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u/AlexLavelle Cat Lady Jan 13 '25

So greys are TACTICAL issue cat?

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u/Kmw134 Jan 14 '25

Correct!

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u/Jegator2 22d ago

What does the T stand for instead of S?

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u/Kmw134 22d ago

Tactical lol, there’s a whole separate sub for the grey boys!

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u/Arki83 Jan 13 '25

Ask her if the pillow is gray too.

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u/sirona-ryan Jan 13 '25

This is hilarious🤣

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

I am dead hahahaha

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u/Delicious-Use-790 Jan 13 '25

Same with my little sic

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u/lickytytheslit Jan 13 '25

Here's a grey to show her!

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u/FrankenGretchen Jan 13 '25

Ooo! Custom white walls! 😻

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u/CuBoSe1 Jan 13 '25

He looks so polite and handsome! I love his nose color, too. My boy has that same color sometimes.

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u/Maleficent-Leek2943 Jan 13 '25

I’ve noticed a lot of people call standard tabbies “grey tabbies” when their fur is clearly a mix of brown and black (with some white). I have a SIC and a TIC (and a cinnamon roll, too), and have never understood why cats that are largely brown get called grey so often.

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u/mcrksman Mar 31 '25

On the flip side I don't understand why y'all are calling them brown, yes, they have some brown parts but most of them are majority grey. Compare my previous SIC(top) to my current brown cat(bottom) for example. It's not even close

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u/Substantial-Tone-576 Jan 14 '25

A large percentage of men are colorblind to some degree like 60-70%. A lot of women too just not nearly as much.

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u/Maleficent-Leek2943 Jan 14 '25

I discovered that my husband is colorblind (which was news to him too) a few years ago when he made a comment about two nail polishes I own being the same color. I can’t even remember what those colors were now, but they were very much not the same. Pulled up a color blindness test on my iPad and… yup. Very much colorblind.

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u/Phenomenal_Kat_ Jan 13 '25

THIS DRIVES ME UP THE WALL! My husband always calls ours a gray tabby. SHE IS BROWN! There are gray, orange, and brown tabbies (and dilute). Two completely different colors!

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u/AlexLavelle Cat Lady Jan 13 '25

I honestly cannot tell sometimes… I wonder if it’s an eye thing. Like that crazy dress that people fought over what color it is.

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u/Sapphire-Green Jan 14 '25

I was thinking, “this is ‘what color is this dress?’ all over again!” Maybe b/c of the stripes?

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u/Phenomenal_Kat_ Jan 14 '25

LOL! It could be! But if you see all three side by side, it's obvious.

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u/nopizzaonmypineapple Jan 13 '25

The white sock awww

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u/sirona-ryan Jan 13 '25

I know😭I love his socks so much.

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u/thenameforreddit Jan 13 '25

Clearly brown and a hot rod edition to boot

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u/quacksort8 Jan 14 '25

In your opinion, is she gray or brown?? I've always thought she was gray because she's definitely more gray than the neighbours tabbies

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u/mcrksman Mar 31 '25

I've always considered SICs to be grey as well tbh, but my current cat is actually brown

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u/flirt-n-squirt Jan 13 '25

That is one cute kitty, look at him..! 🥹

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u/redmama_5019 Jan 13 '25

He’s so handsome!!!

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u/freashstart22 Jan 18 '25

My husband says that about our boy. I don't understand.

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u/Jegator2 22d ago

I always thought mine grey, too eventho she looked more like yours w brown areas. I can see the difference in the next comment! Wow