What kind of cat is a cat that has a gray body with black stripes and white paws?

It sounds like a Silver (or Grey) Tabby. This isn't a type of cat, but a colour variant of the normal brown Tabby coat pattern found on many breeds of cat. Usually the Tabby is a brown colour, but Silver Tabbies have a grey body, black stripes on its body and sometimes white can be found on the paws, face, chin and underside.

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