National Black Cat Day 2018

Have you heard of Black Cat Day?

Its one of the best days of the year!

There is nothing on the planet as elegant and adorable as a miniature jungle panther stalking their fluffy mice and bits of string around their quite mundane residences. So knowing this, why is it that black cats and kittens are often overlooked when animal shelters are looking for new homes?

Black Cats History

Looking at the history of Black Cats in our world we look at ancient Egypt. In Ancient Egypt cats were revered highly, primarily because of their prowess in combating vermin numbers. Royalty kept cats in the luxury of gold jewelry and were invited to eat straight from their humans plates. Cats were even represented as Gods; Bastet, the Goddess of Warfare, was a woman with the head of a Cat.

Following from Egypt, we see in Celtic mythology that black cats…