We always had 1 or 2 black cats until the last matriarch, Ziggy, passed a few years ago and we've been with Gingers/Tabbies or Tiger cats since. Present population-two Gingers, Hemingway more orange and Sunny more yellow and Miss Joy, a Tiger. But we loved our black cats. Our neighbor had three black cats two of them from a rescue shelter where they were imprisoned for being anti social. Larry and Moe were brutes, huge black cats and predators. One or both of them sent a couple of our cats to the Vet. Eventually one was put down. The other is aging and she keeps him caged most of the time. Her third black, Coal, is a much friendlier lad, but all of the neighbors shun him, thinking he may be like Larry and Moe. We never kept a black male cat, ours were all queens.
Until recently most of my cats were black... actually of the three I have left, 2 are black. It is a dominant gene and most of the rescued cats are black and hence most of the unadopted cats are black.
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Those eyes!
Funny! Was Blackwell named for Mr. Blackwell, of the worst-dressed list fame?
He most certainly was not!
Cool shot. Blackwell would have fit in perfectly.
There's a small settlement in northern Derbyshire called Blackwell. I guess you must have named your black pussy after it.
I did choose the name because it sounded British and dignified.
We always had 1 or 2 black cats until the last matriarch, Ziggy, passed a few years ago and we've been with Gingers/Tabbies or Tiger cats since. Present population-two Gingers, Hemingway more orange and Sunny more yellow and Miss Joy, a Tiger. But we loved our black cats.
Our neighbor had three black cats two of them from a rescue shelter where they were imprisoned for being anti social. Larry and Moe were brutes, huge black cats and predators. One or both of them sent a couple of our cats to the Vet. Eventually one was put down. The other is aging and she keeps him caged most of the time.
Her third black, Coal, is a much friendlier lad, but all of the neighbors shun him, thinking he may be like Larry and Moe. We never kept a black male cat, ours were all queens.
Until recently most of my cats were black... actually of the three I have left, 2 are black. It is a dominant gene and most of the rescued cats are black and hence most of the unadopted cats are black.
That's a lot of cats! The food bill must be huge. Unless they all catch their own mice.
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