I celebrate black cats every day, but there is one day of the year it is official: Yes, today is National Black Cat Day!
If you follow this blog, you know Andy and Dougy stand in well as ambassadors for the black cats of this world. They are my joy. They make me laugh!
They are ornery, but I always forgive them.
They get me up before the cows come home to “feed the kitties”, then they go back to bed after they eat.
They are affectionate but don’t want to be held too long because they have important cat business to take care of, always! When they are really magnanimous, they let me play with them!
They are my little buddies! I look forward to seeing them first thing when I wake up each morning, and having them around me all day.
I’m not alone in my enthisiasm for black kitties. Here’s what DrNworb (Doug Brown) of Vancouver, BC has to say on the subject:
best of luck to all the black cats! love them!
Thanks! Me, too, and the boys had a wonderful NBCD. Of course, they have no responsibilities, so of course it was a goods day!
Oh it is only you who thinks they have no responsibilities! Think again 😉
LOL! I’ve seen their schedule, and it is full, 24 hours a day!
That’s better 😉
LOL!
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Black cats are great, I love my 4. Yours are very cute 🙂
Thanks! It goes without saying – but I will! – yours are very cute, too!
Darn I should have made another post on this haha. Happy black cat day. 😀
There’s the one in August. It’s on the 17th I think. Slightly different name, but honors black cats, too. Anyway, nothing stopping you from posting a post-NBCD post, something acknowledging the day, if a day late! (That’s pretty much my game. You may remember I also got Halloween observed here a whole month early….!)
Lol. I had the initial it’s coming soon post but forgot to do a Nubia special for the actual day haha xD
Hey, you do a lot most of the time to promote kittenhood and cat ways. You can stand tall, even when you miss one big day!
Hehe 🙂 thank you ^^
It’s just the facts!
Happy National Black Cat Day guys. Celebrate heartily and don’t forget the nip.
(((Shoko and Kali)))
Oops! I didn’t put out nip for them!
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Here as mine not nearly as nice as yours 😺
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There’s another one in August. I learned about it from Doug Brown’s video and some other posts on Facebook. I don’t follow these things very closely, though I am very much in favor of anything that benefits black kitties!
Yay!! for National Black Cat Day
Yes, I agree!
Mr. M considers himself to be a black cat ambassador, too – and the dear ole guy hopes people overlook his socks, whiskers and ‘cravat’ ;-)… btw, we think he brings good luck.
Tuxedo cats count as black cats, and are among the prettiest of the species. My sister has two of them, Sox and Molly, and they are beauties! I haven’t seen Taco the tuxedo cat around here lately, but he was a beautiful little tuxedo cat, and Pepe, another tuxedo kitty, who lives one lane over, still brings joy to his human and anyone who likes cats. I think they all are perfect ambassadors for black kitties!
I’m glad you agree that the tuxedos are black cats.
I don’t know how these things are determined, but the white seems secondary to the black in the color scheme, so that’s why I think of them as “black cats”!
I guess I always considered M black because he is over 90% black – he is the same percentage for snuggly. Purr might become a cuddly someday, but I suspect it won’t be any time in the near future.
My two are four years four mnopnths old. Andy tolerates being cuddle…if you can catch him! Dougy fights it shortly after you pick him up. Both are slowly becoming more cuddly, though. I think having to get medicated daily has helped Andy become more cuddlkesome since the routine involves holding him to keep him calm and comfortable till I give him the medicine. I talk softly to him, telling him what a good boy he is and how sweet, then I dose him! I continue to hold him after the dosing till he settles down, then I let him down for a kitty treat. Little by little, he’s become calmer during this procedure, though he doesn’t care for the medicine, of course.
I don’t think many like medicine. For certain, I don’t. I assumed that M was cuddlier because he was older and more settled, but it could be his arthritis, too.
Andy does a pretty good job of taking it like a big boy…once I corner him and pin him down!
Cornering a cat is a major accomplishment.
It keep you fleet and young trying to catch them….!
I’ll say! I consider M to be quite the couch potato, but if he doesn’t want to snuggle, it is like catching a greased pig. Purrseidon is even sprier … fortunately, when she wants to go out, she will bring us her harness and/or leash.
It would be nice if mine were leash-trained, mostly because I could use the exercise and they would enjoy sniffing through the neighborhood!
I don’t know if there is any information on how to leash-train a cat, but I know I saw some for a dog. I shall post that when I find it…. As I recall, the same artist had several excellent info-graphics.
I know they recommend starting them as kittens. My sister in Seattle leash-trained her cat Sox, who she got as a kitten. She said it wasn’t the best exercise because he’s walk a little, then he’d stop and sniff the grass or something or he would want to climb up on a fence and walk along that. She said it took forever to go on walks with Sox! I used to walk with my ginger cat Louie. He set the pace and the agenda, and it was sometimes an embarrassment where he took me! Ha!
https://youtu.be/4BH9YGorADw
Mr. M learned late in life because it took a few years to tame him. I don’t know if he acts like Sox due to age or if his temperament is just slow and methodical. Purrseidon is a mix – if there is somewhere she wants to go, she can move at a brisk pace, but once she gets there (usually the beach) she takes her time to sniff everything.
I think I’d probably have to drag Dougy (or carry him) because he can be very willful. Andy might walk.
I have seriously considered the viability of strapping M onto a skateboard and towing him.
LOL! That would pander to M’s worst cat instincts, you know. M probably would think “Well, this is what Jeanne should have done right along! What a silly person to think I’d actually WALK on a leash!!!”
You know the lazy old dear very well 😉
In a generic cat way….!
I don’t believe that this bad luck about black cats… Cats are so lovely creatures… and I love them so much. Happy Black Cat Day to them 🙂 Thanks and Love, nia
In some cultures, black cats are considered good luck, so which is it? Good or bad luck? I say it’s good luck if you have the good fortune to have a black kitty because they are beautiful animals and (in my experience) nice kitties.
They are taking over.
LOL! And how!
I know a not yet retired American lawyer with three rescue black cats (all of them female) – who adores her black kitties as well. Sadly it seems that black animals in shelters are mostly overlooked 🙁
I don’t know how they are viewed in Germany, but there is a residual superstition among some people that black cats are bad luck or some such silliness. The attached video goes into the history of this attitude/superstition.
https://youtu.be/i9GQbI5fFTk
It goes without saying, I don’t believe in that silliness or I wouldn’t have two black kitties!
If a black cats means bad luck depends on you being a mouse or a man 😉
This snarky saying stems from Max O’Rell, a french journalist and writer.
LOL! Yes, that makes perfect sense!
I hated when people would say that my black cat is bad omen! I could frankly strike them…. and ask them to get out of my house!!
It’s hard to believe people can still be that ignorant and superstitious in the 21st Century! It is one big reason I don’t let my kitties roam outside, though. They are sweet-natiured, and I’d worry some knothead would hurt them because they were black but not street wise enough to run like hell when a bad person approached them.
It’s hard to believe people are still so ignorant and superstitious in 2015! Of course, that is also why my black kitties will never be outside kitties or be allowed to roam outside.