Drive to rehome forgotten felines
Lily
GIVE black cats a chance is the message from Cats Protection in its third annual drive to encourage more people to adopt monochrome felines.
National Black Cat Day is being held on October 31 to encourage people to offer a home to an unwanted black or black-and-white moggy.
Around half of the 6,200 cats in Cats Protection’s care are black or black and white and, on average, each of these cats waits around a week longer to find a new home.
Jackie May, Cats Protection’s information and education manager, said: "It’s sad black and black-and-white moggies are homeless for longer so we wanted to give them a chance to shine and show that fur colour is only skin deep. At Cats Protection we are standing up for the ‘under-cat’ and asking people to consider taking a black or black-and-white cat into their home.
“Once favoured by storytellers in tales of magic and witchcraft, black cats have developed an undeserved bad reputation that is still bubbling away."
This National Black Cat Day, Cats Protection is inviting people to share their black and black-and-white cat stories, photos and videos on its Facebook page.
Over 250 of the photos that have already been submitted have been used to create a new poster which will be used by the charity to promote adopting a black or black-and-white cat.
For more information visit www.facebook.com/catsprotection
Image shows Lilly, who is at Cats Protection’s Dereham Adoption Centre in East Anglia. She is 11 years old and came to the centre as her owner was emigrating.
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