21/10/2022
Fact!🎯💯
After 4 years of volunteer work at my local shelter with cats, I learned there are 3 main reasons why black cats (this includes Dark Tortoiseshell kitties too) are the most likely to sit in shelters longer than other coloured/purebred cats:
1) They blend into their surroundings and their enclosure looks empty. This can be fixed by dressing their enclosure in bright coloured blankets and towels. Something we would do if we knew a Black/Dark Tortie was going to go into that enclosure to help them stand out.
2) Ignorant humans STILL associate black cats with bad luck 🙄🙄 Haven't we moved past the ideologies of the Salem witch trials?
And, probably the MOST ridiculous...
3) They don't photograph well for social media. 😒 I kid you not!! Because everyone is so involved with their social media presence, they are drawn more to unique looking cats, this includes ones with physical deformities or amputations to gain sympathy attention online.
(Don't get me wrong, I am ALWAYS appreciative those that adopt cats who are 3-legged, 1-eyed, or who have a tail or ear amputation due to trauma or disease, etc but there *are* unfortunately people who are more drawn to these cats because they think the look at the cat will draw people in with 'likes' or 'follows')
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