With Halloween just around the corner, we thought we would do a
✨Black cat awareness post✨
See below some interesting facts about black cats:
Also, please feel free to share photos of your cats in the comments below! We would love to see them! 😍
🐾Did you know In Ancient Egypt, all cats, including black cats, were considered sacred and worshipped. The goddess Bastet, a deity often depicted as a woman with the head of a black cat, was strongly associated with domestic cats. Every house and temple had at least one cat as it was seen as a way to bring luck into your family
🐾 Did you know that black cats have the highest percentage for not being adopted from rescue centres!
🐾Historically, sailors and fishermen believed that having a black cat onboard would bring the ship good luck and guarantee a safe journey (with the added benefit of fewer rats). Fishermen's wives would also keep black cats at home believing that they would ensure their husbands returned home safely from sea!
🐾The bodies of black cats produce a high amount of melanin, a chemical which accounts for their dark coat. Melanin can affect the color of a cat's eyes, so this usually means that their irises are yellow.
🐾While they can definitely be either male or female, due to some genetic mystery, there are more male black cats than females
🐾 While the gene for a tabby coat is the most dominant pattern in feline DNA, the black color gene is the most dominant when it comes to the color of coat. This means that if two cats who have the gene for a black coat produce offspring, those genes override the tabby pattern gene to produce a solid black coat.
🐾 Even if that tabby pattern has been repressed by the black color gene, it may still be there. A cat must have another gene present to completely override the tabby pattern, which means many black cats are undercover tabbies! If you’ve ever seen stripes in your kitty’s fur while they basked in the sun, that tabby pattern w
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