Black Cat Day

Wikipedia has today, 27 October, pegged as "Black Cat Appreciation Day" on their general daily page. Following the link there, we're led to Wiki's Black Cat page, upon scrolling down, it is reported that:

October 27 has been designated ‘Black Cat Day’ by Cats Protection in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to celebrate the virtues of black cats and to encourage people to adopt an unwanted black cat. Cats Protection’s own figures suggest that black cats are more difficult for them to find a new home for than other colours. In 2014, the RSPCA reported that 70% of the abandoned cats in its care were black, suggesting a possible reason was that people considered black cats "un-photogenic".

Alrighty then...in honour of our black feline friends, a couple of husband's photographs from his Flickr pages. We often meet cats of all hues on our wanders, in antique or vintage stores and elsewhere, he seldom misses an opportunity for a pic. Truly black cat photos, as it happens, were not as plentiful as snaps of cats of different colours. Captions are husband's, from Flickr.




What is your purpose in visiting our store?
In fact, if you are not going to scratch my chin, what is your purpose?






Who let you in here?





Watch it.
Keep your distance, this bird feeder is my territory.
(This one, dated May 2004, was taken in England, a few months before we left, for emigration (me), or to return home (he).





Stray Cat
(Found in the Children's area of the Salina [Kansas]Art Center.)


It's appropriate that Black Cat Day lies within zodiac sign Scorpio, and close to Hallowe'en. Black cats have traditional connection to witches, witches have traditional connection to Hallowe'en, and Hallowe'en, with its ghoulies and ghosties and all manner of nasties is nicely (or nastily) compatible with Scorpio's alleged darker side.