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Animals News tagged with black cats

Shelter Offers Senior Cats for Senior Citizens
Animals  (tags: seniors, cats, shelter, arrangements, kittens, black cats, adoptions )

Raffi
- 99 days ago - gazette.net
Fray isn't ready to become a complete couch potato. He even relishes a short sprint and tackle now and then. But he needs his naps, and he'd like to have fewer roommates. What adoption coordinator Patricia Gagne wants for him is a mature adult
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Black Cat Lovers of the World...Unite!
Animals  (tags: kitten season, cat lovers, adoptions, black cats, homeless cats, shelters )

Simone
- 131 days ago - examiner.com
We are in the heart of "kitten season" here in northwest Ohio. Every year nearly 75,000 felines are without homes in the Toledo area. This number is staggering but fortunately, Planned Pethood (www.plannedpethood.org) has dozens of foster parents,
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13th May Be Lucky Day for Shelter's Black Cats
Animals  (tags: black cats, animal shelters, adoptions, new homes, animal welfare )

Simone
- 258 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Chattanooga, Tenn. - Friday the 13th may seem like a bad day to adopt a black cat -- you know, witches, magic, bad luck, yadda yadda. But you can save $87 by taking a black cat home from the McKamey Animal Care and Adoption Center Friday through Sunday
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Black Cats Need Love, Too
Animals  (tags: humane society, homeless animals, black cats, adoptions, love, affection, bonding )

Simone
- 259 days ago - northumberlandtoday.com
Tomorrow is Friday the 13th and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wants members of the public to consider adopting a black cat. "Black cats are fantastic," says Northumberland Humane Society supervisor Lynne Brightman. "The
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The Black Cat: A Bad Rap and Silly Superstitions
Animals  (tags: black cats, maligned, superstitions, bad rap, undeserved, cats )

Simone
- 422 days ago - pasadosafehaven.org
The black cat has gotten a bad rap in this country ever since the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock with their devout faith and suspicion of anything deemed of the devil. They viewed the black cat as a companion, or familiar to witches, which kinda sound
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Italy's "Black Cat Day" Aims to Halt Killings
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, black cats, pets, killing, AnimalCruelty, superstitions )

Cher
- 739 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Saturday is "black cat day", in Italy, an initiative by an animal rights group to try to stop the killing of thousands of the cats by superstitious citizens convinced they bring bad luck.
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Want a Black Cat for Halloween? You're Out of Luck, Shelter Says
Animals  (tags: animals, black cats, halloween, protection, pets, AnimalWelfare )

Cher
- 759 days ago - argusleader.com
Black cats traditionally have been a symbol of bad luck. That's why for the past two years, the animal shelter on the city's southwest side has declined adoption requests for black cats during the Halloween season.
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Don't Let Halloween Bring a Scare! Keep Your Pets Safe.
Animals  (tags: halloween, black cats, animal abuse, companionanimals, animalsuffering, AnimalCruelty )

Gregory
- 787 days ago - americanhumane.org
Black cats If you have a black cat, you have a special problem. The mythology about black cats being related to witches can lead strange people to do strange things to them. Even kids who mean no harm may yell when they see a black cat -scaring the cat.
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Bad Luck for Black Cats in Italy
Animals  (tags: black cats, killed, slaughtered, black magic, cruelty )

Simone
- 822 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Superstition blamed for killing thousands of black cats in Italy A leading animal rights group has estimated that 60,000 black cats are killed every year by Italians who believe that they bring bad luck. The Italian Association for the Protection
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Superstition Sabotages Black Cats
Animals  (tags: black cats, cats, protection, shelters, overlooked, companionanimals, pets )

Simone
- 866 days ago - mlive.com
Operations manager Sarah Mews says black felines often get passed over for no logical reason. "Black animals tend to be the most overlooked color of animal in shelters,'' says Mews. "People hang on to the superstition that black cats are bad luck,
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