Today’s your lucky day! Since it’s Friday the thirteenth, let’s learn some interesting true facts about the universal bringer of bad luck: black cats! (All facts verified via the Encyclopedia Cuteanica.)
1. Black cats suffer from extreme dandruff.
2. Black cats use the power of the Force to make you adore them.
3. Black cats are actually gremlins.
4. Black cats play the meanest tricks on people who pass out at parties.
5. Black cats are incapable of having bad luck themselves, no matter how recklessly they behave.
This “goofy little girl” comes to us from reader Soccersue., who notes “she’s not the brightest cat in the world, but we love her anyway.”
I will totally take that gremlin home with me. I’ll even feed him after midnight.
Isn’t it technically ALWAYS after midnight (except 12:00 am, of course…)?
I have always wondered about that. By the same logic, it is always before midnight, too.
Darth Vader Cat must have a really scary meow – and his purring must be really loud.
I know some people say black cats are bad luck, but I say they are gorgeous! Loved those pictures.
One of my black cats is ACTUALLY Gremlin (she’s got the cutest tufts on her ears, that made me pick that name). And she makes full pawed biscuits, making her paws look totally round.
This is my girl.
How pretty!
Beautiful! My Minkette was black. She had gold eyes.
Hi lovely Gremlin!
Gorgeous!
Wow, beautiful cat! She looks so soft.
She is very soft 🙂
Ooooo pretty.
Pretty eyes!
Yes! A very unusual green.?
Thank you all for the lovely comments! She’ll get extra cuddles tonight.
Gorgeous!
Gremlin is a stunner! She reminds my of my long-departed but still sorely missed Gaufredus, who had the same green eyes but no ear tufties.
He did get bad dandruff, so Mike’s first photo made me guffaw.
Awww….Gremlin is beautiful! She looks a lot like mine, which Mike has now added to the post!
She is lovely!
Pretty puss! Love those green eyes.
Hehe, looks like my inky kitty too. Love him to bits 🙂
I’ve updated the post with a picture from Soccersue, who sent me a bunch of pics (and you’ll probably be seeing more of them soon). Thanks!
Soccersue, I think you love your goofy little girl *because* she’s not so bright, just like I love my Scorpius *because* he’s a rascally scoundrel–kind of the Han Solo of kitties.
Absolutely! She’s our little clown and always keeps us entertained. Her name is Lahara, because when she meows she sounds like the lahar sirens they test her once a month, that are supposed to warn us of a catastrophic mudflow from Mt. Rainier. “Meooooooowwwww!”
She showed up on our porch one day and wouldn’t leave, so after 2 weeks I finally broke down and fed her. You know what happens next. 😛
That’s how we got our first cat! My parents left for work one morning and he was in the driveway. My mom said “hi kitty!” and my dad said “go away!” When they got home from work he was in the driveway (still? again?). My mom said “hi kitty!” and my dad said “go away!”
I don’t think it took my mom two weeks to start feeding him, though.
We already had two cats at the time and didn’t want another…we figured she’d take the hint and move on eventually. I’m glad she was stubborn. 😀
My dad “hates cats.” When I was in high school my brother and his friends rescued a tiny black kitten from 4th of July post-fireworks traffic (how they even saw him, I have no clue) and we couldn’t keep him, mostly because my brother is allergic to cats, but also because my dad “hates cats.” (And we had a dog, who was terrified of the tiny furball. We kept the kitten for a week or so until one of my brother’s coworkers was able to take him.)
My parents now have two cats, and guess who the girl goes to bed with every night.
(Oh, and we had the driveway cat for 7 years.)
Some black cats are space aliens. (Photo @bethostern on Instagram)
I’m fairly sure all cats are space aliens…
LOL I always believed my Minkette kept in touch with the mother ship. Her calm self-possession and air of authority could not have come from simply being a 7 lb. fluffball.
The feline mother ship, LOL! I firmly believe that there is one orbiting the earth because how else do you explain when cats go missing and then they’re suddenly there looking at you “Well, I’ve always been right here.”
I was fostering a cat just recently and kept her in a closed 10 x 12 room. One night I go in looking for her and she gave me complete heart failure. I COULD NOT FIND HER! How does a cat disappear from a closed room??? I was really thinking she somehow either went out the window or got the door open and was in the house. I called my husband to see if he could spot her and he looked and said she’s right there. I swear 2 seconds earlier she hadn’t been in that spot, the only explanation I could come up with was because she was visiting the mother ship. I’ve had other cats do the exact same thing. Very un-nerving
I had a black cat once (named Boris, for the opera character Boris Godunov). He’d had a rough time — he was declawed by his first owner, then somehow escaped and lived somehow on the streets before he was rescued, placed unsuccessfully in a couple of homes before I got him — which is where he stayed for the rest of his life. Boris had the most intense gaze — I used to call it his “Yul Brynner look.” Anyway, I’m sure that gaze helped make me adore him.