Jen I'm so glad you started this thread! The shelter is overloaded with the most beautiful black cats! I can't understand it either. They are so sweet and so incredibly loving. I'm already figuring that I will get stuck with these two black kittens because I will not let them grow up and live their life in a cage at the shelter.
We even have two gorgeous long haired black cats at the shelter with a reduced adoption price and still no one wants them.
I know I don't have a black cat but I only took in the ferals that landed on my porch and it just so happened that none of them were black. Lucky is the closest I've got and he's a black tabby with very distinct tabby stripes.

Lets keep spreading the word about how wonderful they are and maybe we can get some of the beauties adopted!!