It’s Time To Love Black Cats: Vintage Black Cat Art and Adoption Awareness
That’s right, it’s Wednesday and time for our weekly black cat adoption awareness feature. This week, we have some unusual and striking vintage art and collectibles depicting black cats.
But first, meet NINJI, a sleek, young boy discovered by a customer at a gas station in West Miami. He stood on his hind legs and pleaded with his front paws to pick him up and feed him and save him. It turned out he belonged to an elderly lady. Sadly the daughter place mom in nursing home and dumped the cats outdoors. Thankfully our friends at Riverfront Cats took him in. Ninji just received his second round of vaccinations, is neutered, healthy and ready to go to his new home. He’s an athletic boy with high energy levels but likes purring in a lap too!
Ninji’s ADOPTION GIFT BASKET
For anyone who adopts Ninji, you will receive a black carrier, and a “Welcome Kitty Gift Basket” including a pet carrier, food bowl, toys, the delightful book The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey autographed by our good friend Deb Barnes, and a bottle of Coppola Wine. Christopher Coppola and his black cat Otto are the famous guardian/cat duo and were celebrity guests at the Black Cat Gala in Miami. Christopher and Otto have generously donated the bottle of wine for anyone who adopts a black cat from Riverfront Cats!
If you are interested in meeting Ninji, please email [email protected]
Many believe black cats are lucky and the cover of this adorable book published in 1927 speaks volumes.
Tea anyone? Who can resist a vintage mid-century teapot from Stafford. Did you know we collect teapots? We have a feature at our other blog called Zen Tea Tuesday
Doe anyone play dominoes anymore?
We are donating 100% of the proceeds from our black cat art at our Etsy shop to the A.S.P.C.A.
25 Comments
Texas, a cat in... Austin
The vintage black kitty art you post is always lovely!
Deb Barnes - Zee and Zoey
I have personally met Ninji and he is a stunning boy. I do hope he will find a home soon – he would make a great companion and blessings to Christine in the meantime for fostering him…
Devoted to Willow
It is a shame that Black cat have so much trouble getting a home because of human superstition. Hopefully more stories of black cats have a happy ending.
Sometimes, Cats Herd You
Ninji is beautiful, and he sounds like he’s going to make a great family member for a lucky family.
The Creative Cat
Geez, Layla, how many posts do you want?! I’ve got several hundred, and more each day! Love those black kitties, even the old ladies.
Cathy Keisha
Ninja is so adorable and striking. With his looks, he shouldn’t need a Hope Chest but that’s the way things go. Best of luck to him.
CATachresis
It looks like Ninji is good to go!! What a handsome fella!!
Skeeter and Izzy
HOOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY for Riverfront Cats!!!!!
We pray and purr that Ninji finds his puuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrfect furever home!!!
We ask that you guys purr for us too, we are working to trap,neuter/spay and hopefully home two young ferals here too…..one of which just happens to be black with one small white spot too named Twig and a smaller one tiger stripe with a little yellow named Peanut.
It just stuns me that people can be so heartless and cruel.
Luvs,purrs and prayers to all
Skeeter and Izzy and the Feral Gang >^..^<
Layla Morgan Wilde
Hooray for your work with ferals. We’re purrring for success with Twig and Peanut!
Angel Abby
We are purring up a storm for Ninji. We hope his forever family finds him quickly. We are so sorry to hear how heartless the daughter of the Mom put in a nursing home, I cannot imagine how that Mom must feel if she knew…it is so heartbreaking to do this to an innocent life.
Layla Morgan Wilde
That’s a good point. I wonder if she does know.
meowmeowmans
We have our paws and fingers crossed for Ninji — what a striking house panther! Whoever adopts him is going to be super LUCKY. We’ll tweet this now.
Black cats are awesome. We are, admittedly, a little biased, but still…
Alana Grelyak
We LOVE black cats! We’re campaigning this whole month in their favor using the tag #magicats. We have one here, Niles, and he loves to hold hands at night. Thank you for helping their cause!! – Alana & Crepes.
Savannah's Paw Tracks
oh thank you Riverfront Cats! And we luvluvluv black cats…we hope to adopt one soon…and I am working hard to help Ray Charles and Rachel get adopted, two black panthers and Ray Ray has very limited sight…Ninji is one very lucky kitty…I will share on FB
Coccolino
We remember you posted on this last year and appreciated it then and now too. It’s so sad for those black cats that aren’t adopted because of their color!
Tamago
Ninji is such a handsome boy! Poor baby dumped like that but I’m so glad he was rescued. I hope he will find forever home very soon.
I love the kitty tea pot. It’s so adorable 🙂
Nerissa's Life
Thank goodness for those peeps at Riverfront Cats. They do such great work.
That poor kitty… left all alone… all by himself and OBVIOUSLY wantin’ and needin’ love and attention. Again, thank goodness for the peeps at Riverfront Cats.
Purrs,
Nissy
da tabbies o trout towne
doods….ya noe…az much az black kittehz iz feered by dumb ass peepulz…they sure due like ta use em in products a lot huh !!! hay, heerz ta a wild whitefish wednesday ~~~~ 🙂
Laila and Minchie
We LOVE black cats! Mom misses her black beauty, Binky Baby every day.
Sweet Purrfections
We think black cats are beautiful.
Karen Higgins
I had a black cat when I was nine – “Midnight” – but haven’t had a black cat since! (not by choice).
Matt - Live music photographer
Ok… I NEED that watch lol
Sparkle
I hate hearing stories like the one about Ninji – he is lucky that he has humans helping him. Some are not so lucky.
My human has some vintage kitty stuff. Now that you’ve mentioned yours, she will probably make me pose with them.
Kathryn
I love black cats and ninja and merlin and black cat dominoes
i forgot that parker brothers was in salem, ma.
Layla Morgan Wilde
I wonder if they are still based there?