National Black Cat Day -

I learnt something new today. October 30th is National Black Cat Day.

Now there seems to be a National Day Of Something-Or-Other every day – everything from awareness days for serious causes to random stuff like Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 if yar be interested, arr!) and I don’t normally pay too much attention to these sorts of things BUT I adopted a black cat this year so now National Black Cat Day is something that speaks to me.

Why do black cats get their own special day?

Because they are the least adopted colour of cat, generally because of superstition because people believe them to be unlucky, but also because in this vanity and selfie-obsessed society, they are deemed to be “less photogenic”. Black cats are the last ones to be adopted because people favour other coloured cats and according to Cats Protection, black cats make up almost a quarter of all cats in Cats Protection care.

It does puzzle me that this national day is the day before Halloween, when I’m pretty sure that some animal shelters halt black cat adoptions during October to prevent people just adopting them for ‘Halloween props’, I’m guessing that’s why there is also a Black Cat Appreciation Day in August too!?

Let me tell you a few things about black cats-

1. They are NOT unlucky
2. They are NOT Halloween props
3. Ok so they might be a little more tricky to photograph but they are stunning creatures all the same

We adopted our 2 year old cat Rodney from our local Cats Protection centre and he is a proper little character. He is a very chatty cat, enjoys his food, enjoys our food (he stole a jacket potato skin from my plate the other day!), he looks smart in red and his favourite tv show is You’ve Been Framed!