What’s Black And White & Purrfectly Lucky?
It’s a special shelter volunteer adventures post today. In honor of the upcoming Black Cat Appreciation Day on August 17, The New Rochelle Humane Society is celebrating for a week offering 50% off adoption fees (or two for one!) from August 16 to August 23 on BLACK CATS or BLACK AND WHITE aka Tuxedo CATS only. If you are in the NYC area or know a cat lover there, check out a few of the black beauties and tuxies online at New Rochelle Humane Society AND yes, there many stunning black and tuxedo cats and kittens not listed yet. Call the lovely staff with any questions 914 632-2925
Beautiful full size images of all the Adoption images will be available to share on Facebook via our Cat Wisdom 101 pages.
The first thing I noticed when I visited NRHS for the first time was an abundance of black and tuxedo cats. Why? Fact: Black cats are statistically the least adopted and the most euthanized.
Why?
Silly reasons that make you want to go duh, like:
- Outdated superstitions dating back the dark ages. Hello, it’s 2014!
- Black cats are not as noticeable in a cage or room. Are they not wearing glasses?
- Black cats don’t photograph well. Every photographer and artist will disagree. Look at mine plus #blackcatselfie
- Most shelter pet photos can be improved. Good images improve odds of adoption.
- Read our Don’t Judge A Cat by it’s Color about the University of Berkeley cat color preference study
What I find most crazy making is: in many parts of the world from England, Australia to Japan black cats are considered LUCKY.
WHY ADOPT A BLACK CAT or KITTEN?
Black cats are as adorable, affectionate and sweet as any other color of cat.
Black cats are beautiful and elegant house panthers making a house a home.
Black goes with every decor or outfit. If you wear a lot of black cat hair doesn’t show.
True Love is color blind.
Not convinced? See Marco, a sweet Tuxie in action. We featured Marco back in June and he’s still waiting in his cage for his forever home or even a foster home. Thank-you to shelter volunteer Leslie Howard for this video.
23 Comments
PepiSmartDog
Really great post for all black cats!
Thank you for writing such a great post on their behalf.
Thank you for joining our Thankful Thursday Weekly Blog Hop and we look forward to reading more of your posts and getting to know you even better, *waves paw* :=o
Cynthia Southern
Black cats are cool and so is this blog entry!
Cathy Keisha
I LOVE that watch image!! We love black cats. TW even read that if you had cat allergies, black male cats would make your allergies worse. Gasp!
mariodacat
We sure wish people would get over black cats are bad luck. M’s first cat was totally black except for just a tiny white spot right under his chin. He did not bring them any bad luck, he was a very loving boy, and M says the smartest kitty they ever had. Thanks for reminding people to adopt Black cats.
Katie's Kitty
What a great event!! We hope you clear the shelter of all of the kitties, not just the black/black & white ones. They all deserve great homes!
Anonymous
Basic black,always in fashion,always flattering,always classic and chic, need we say more?
We see a black cat a mile away…its like they are neon yellow lol. We love kitties of any and all colors but black is soooooooooooooooooooo wonderful.
We continue to hope and pray that all kitties in the world find the love,food,shelter and care that they deserve.
Luvs
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang + Twig & Peanut and Romeo >^..^<
The Island Cats
Did you know I was adopted because I was black?? Yep, the mom wanted a black cat…and she’s so happy that she found me! ~Ernie
Flynn
My mum loves black cats and has had two and two tuxies.
Pawesome Cats
We love black cats and had a fluffy black girl called Rose who went to the Rainbow Bridge in 2007. Our handsome black boy, Onyx joined her there this May.
Nerissa's Life
Black cats are beautiful and that’s a FACT, for sure.
Purrs,
Nissy
meowmeowmans
Black cats ROCK. Some people might call us “biased,” but we would say we are INFORMED. 🙂
Angel AbbyGrace
I have a feeling if I lived near you I would be adopting Marco…like I need another one! *sigh* what a boy!
Thank you for stopping by yesterday and leaving such a kind and thoughtful message on Abby’s one year at the RB post. I so appreciated your warm and gracious words.
Annabelle♥Boo♥Jinx♥Ping
♥Angels Abby & Grace♥
Tamago
I hope black cat appreciation day helps more black kitties to be adopted.
True love is really color blind. Every kitty is beautiful!
The Swiss Cats
We can attest that black cats rock ! Purrs
Oui Oui
We agree about black cats, but our mom does have a hard time photographing Carl – but then she isn’t too good with the rest of us either. MOL. Love should be blind! You can’t judge a book by it’s cover or a cat by it’s color.
Melissa & Truffles
I’ve sometimes seen torties added to black cat adoption days as well as tuxies. Truffles is a tortie but certainly predominantly black and she’s my sleek little panther!
easy rider
If I could I would adopt you too, to live with a panther-kitty is great!
da tabbies o trout towne
best fishes guys N heerz hopin everee one at new rochelle getz adopted N yur in yur for evers home by months end…sendin selfeez ta each other bout yur new “padz” ♥
Dorothy
I’ve been lucky enough to have been guardian to several black cats so far. Right now Mistletoe is my 12 year old panther. There’s also Hitch, who several folks have called black, but really he’s wearing a gray tux. Pumpkin and Tiger are the first orange cats I’ve ever lived with….and also the first I’ve known from a feral background. The cats in my life have always found me, even if I had to walk in to a rescue to help them along. I remember as a child we had an awesome, giant black panther named Buckwheat. He was my mother’s soul cat. I’ll never forget the time we had appliance repairmen in the house, working on the washing machine and they were petrified of Buckwheat. The one guy would NOT come in the house unless my mother locked Buckwheat away. Well. She did, but Buckwheat could open doors and he wasn’t too pleased. The repair company ended up having to send someone else because Buckwheat showed the scaredy cat the door. Both Buckwheat and my Mom seemed very pleased with themselves that day.
Layla Morgan Wilde
I wonder why Buckwheat was so scary to the repairman? Do you think it was his color or his smarts?
Hannah and Lucy
Mum was once owned by a black cat who was called Max – poor Emma who lived here at the same time only managed a cuddle when he was out hunting for presents to bring home for HIS MUM! Mum spent many nights chasing a scared mouse so she could take it back outside and give it it’s freedom.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Sammy
Panther cats are gorgeous and our favorite thing is their sleek shiny coats AND their eyes which are so much more noticeable because of their coloring! I hope this is a BIG August 17th for the black kitty community everywhere……..lots of forever homes or fosters to step up and help.
Hugs, Pam
Sparkle
We love black cats here! My human has lived with several and does not understand why anyone would have a problem with them. They are great!