Is this realy true for black cats :(

**CathyBogart** · 10-21-2006, 03:09 PM

Cucake's not black, but she's close enough that we always keep her indoors on Hallowe'en and the nights leadgin up to it.

**lizbud** · 10-21-2006, 04:37 PM

Unfortunately it's true with Indiana shelters as well. No adoptions of
black cats for a time before & after halloween.It really doesn't help that
black cats are always depicted in media as scary,evil things, associated with
witches & Halloween.

**cyber-sibes** · 10-22-2006, 09:58 AM

I would think it would be superstitious people who think they are "eliminating" evil who might kill black cats - not the devils-witches-black magic groups, who revere black cats, no?
I had a black cat that I found in a cemetery, naturally, I named him Spook. I kept him in on Halloween because I worried someone might try to run him down or something stupid like that. I think black animals in general get a bad rap.

**Pembroke_Corgi** · 10-22-2006, 10:25 AM

All I know is that there are a lot of sickos out there.

Anyone who can find it enjoyable to kill something is really a threat to our society.

**IRescue452** · 10-22-2006, 11:08 AM

Its not just October that's a problem. Black cats have a harder time getting adopted year-round. Whatever colour, my cats are NEVER let outside on their own. I'm surprised to see how many people here say they keep their cats inside around halloween, as if they are safe from the perils of the outdoors the rest of the year?

**CathyBogart** · 10-22-2006, 12:34 PM

Let's not start that argument in this thread.

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 10-22-2006, 12:59 PM

We live in a weird weird world. Some people hurt innocent animals for no reason. When I was younger, two of our cats were poisoned for no reason we ever knew about. They were poisoned at the same time and we always had a feeling we knew who did it but couldn't prove it. They were not black cats nor were they mean. I decided then when I grew up all my animals would stay in the house.

I think sometimes people invent excuses to be mean (like the cats were chasing birds or some nonsense). That makes them believe they have a right to hurt the innocent. It's sort of like people who abuse children trying to use the excuse they were abused as a child. That is such a cop out!!! Millions of people are abused every day but don't go out and abuse any one else.

There are two things that make me really mad and they are animal and child abuse!!! These is no excuse for either in my opinion.

**Zippy** · 10-22-2006, 01:01 PM

I never know that.Sick Sick Sick

I someday would love to have a black cat they are so beauitful.

**CathyBogart** · 10-22-2006, 01:17 PM

Ditto Zippy, I would love to have a black cat. Unfortuantely, Jasper's not cat-safe at ALL.

**Toby's my baby** · 10-22-2006, 05:41 PM

It is true, but so sad.

Around here the superstition is to "stay away from them" and not to go near them, so in other words, leave them alone. I've never heard of them desroying them.

So so sad.

**kitten645** · 10-22-2006, 06:22 PM

Being meowmie to two blackies, I know first hand the prejudice they are subjected to. I work at a shelter and year around I show people a blackie and they say "oh not a black one". Not to be offensive here but many are Asian families so perhaps the stigma is more prevalent in those cultures.
I did have a family looking for a cat as companion for their elderly mother and said no blacks because they are hard to see and she might hurt it by accident..perfectly understandable. We don't adopt out blackies in Oct.
Anyway, I think the real danger to all cats but particularly black ones near Halloween are sick people/kids that think it would be fun to torture one as part of a Halloween "prank" or "trick". Sadly in many cases it has less to do with religion or superstition than down right cruelty

In regards to adopting blackies, some people just adopt one as a Halloween "decoration" and abandon/ignore it after.

**Twisterdog** · 10-23-2006, 07:56 PM

Our shelter never adopted black cats during the month of October. We had a couple of close calls, with people wanting black cats for creepy Halloween-type things. (I'm not going to go into detail, it's disturbing.)

Black dogs also have a much harder time finding a home at shelters. In a litter of puppies, the black ones were always the last to go. And the black adult dogs were SO hard to find homes for.

**Dorothy39** · 10-24-2006, 06:34 PM

I've never heard of such a thing during Halloween ( times are a changin)
sooo , I'm going to make sure that my in-laws keep their Black Cat inside on Halloween Night!!!! Yikes!!!!

**cmayer31** · 10-24-2006, 07:10 PM

The shelters around here also put a hold on all black cats until November. It's sad and even worse is that it's not only people with specific fears/beliefs against black cats, but also just sick people that think Halloween is a reason to do harm to black cats; as if it were an excuse. Disgusting.

**IRescue452** · 10-24-2006, 07:17 PM

One humane society in my area is having a free cat promotion this month to get cats to homes. Not a good thing for October, but it seems we've had a WI cat population boom this year. They're everywhere.