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Another reason is that they go on sale! I went to the shelter to get a black cat because they were being given away free, already fixed and microchipped, no adoption fee -- the superstitious peasants where I live think they are bad luck. The oldest kitten in the kitten room was black and SUCH a nice guy. They said nobody else had ever even looked at him, not once. So I was the lucky one who got him!!!! Free!!!!!
He is one of the nicest cats imaginable, so nice that the other cats go to him and put their heads down and he cleans their ears for them. Whenever I go to the utility room to do anything, he follows me in and ostentatiously uses the catbox to show me that he has good catbox skills. (Not everyone in the house does, alas.) he has been trying to prove himself to me this way ever since I brought him home and spent a lot of time showing him where the boxes were and how I wanted him to use them. He tries VERY hard to be a good kitteh.
I read somewhere that aside from being superstitious, people dont' want black cats because they don't photograph well, so you won't have the perfect selfie to post on social media. I don't know if that's really a thing or not, but just the thought of that being a reason they are left sitting in the shelter is mind boggling!
I happen to think my black kitty photographs just fine... being so handsome and all! And black is slimming, so I think I look slimmer next to him!
And as someone above me noted... they're always on sale!
I read somewhere that aside from being superstitious, people dont' want black cats because they don't photograph well, so you won't have the perfect selfie to post on social media. I don't know if that's really a thing or not, but just the thought of that being a reason they are left sitting in the shelter is mind boggling!
I happen to think my black kitty photographs just fine... being so handsome and all! And black is slimming, so I think I look slimmer next to him!
And as someone above me noted... they're always on sale!
I think Kitty Katty takes a perfectly fine selfie......he is a couple of posts up!
My rescue from under the house, who mom left behind since she got stuck where she couldn't get out, is solid black. Even the bottom coat is black. I stood by the wall and meowed back to her, moving down the wall for two days to draw her to the plumbing access I'd opened and this little black kitten, the length of my hand comes strutting out and came directly to me and nuzzled. She thinks of me as Mom. In honor of the mother godess, I named her Isis.
She's smart and active and keeps the other smaller cats in shape since she won't let them just lounge. Chasing back and forth and play fighting was much better. She has siamese in her, eyes and body shape and definately personality. She makes sure everyone gets exercise.
I've had several black cats and they all were great pets and had vivid personalitites. I have a couple of them now since so many people let them wander outside here, and a black cat will never blend. There is a pair of barn owls who consider my corner their territory.
She just landed in my lap to tell me that she was done playing and would like her kitty milk now.
My first cat was a BLACK CAT. Her name was Morgan and she had me from the first time in my hands. Looked up at me as a kitten and as if said, "This human is mine! I have them!"
Panther? I giggled silently from the waiting room when I took her in for a nail trim and heard her YOWLS from the treatment room, thinking, "WHO LET THAT PANTHER IN HERE?"
But that was a score ago when I got her and a decade ago, we had to part ways, her to another life.
Now, I'm a parent to another pair of BLACK CATS, a pair of tortoise strays (in addition to my house cats), named Melinda and Warren. Whatever else they may be, they are still BLACK CATS, still are witch's cats....even if they don't think so. I house them, I take care of them, I take them to the Vet, they are chipped, but they think in very free, very independent ways.
BLACK CATS......I can never turn from them for they are so familiar.
because they're a cat that needs a home.... that just happens to be black.
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I don't know if that's really a thing or not, but just the thought of that being a reason they are left sitting in the shelter is mind boggling!
