Black cats

Black cats refer to the all-black versions of silvestris catus (pet cats). If you're looking for black-and-white cats, try those pages, though sometimes mostly black cats just have a little white on them, like on their chest, and thus don't count as black-and-white spotted/patched cats. If you're looking for melanistic jaguars, pumas, and leopards, and even other large or small black cats/felids, go to Black panthers.
Black cats are one of the most famous animals in American culture. In the past and still today, some people find that black cats are bad luck, and have a heavy association with them as halloween decors and graveyards. They are often put in movies to signify such. They are supposed to be bad luck when they cross someone's path (in front of them while they're walking, usually from some distance but still visible). White cats, their opposite, do not necessarily signify good luck in their absence or trade, but it has been thought of by some.
Black cats are currently just one variation of cat, which are very popular due to the internet's love for them. Their halloween, bad luck, scary associations still run with them, but it's not as bad as it was before. Less people are genuinely superstitious of them, I think.
Black is one of the more popular colors to portray fictional cats, both as characters and as background. It is a good, solid color. They are often portrayed with pink noses however, which most black cats in real life do not have. It actually looks really weird for them to have pink noses. In fiction they are not always portrayed with a pink nose, it's just popular to.
The Goddess Bastet of Egypt is often portrayed as a black cat. Historically she is based off of a goddess of the same name (her appearance changed and adapted, evolved) from that of a Cheetah.
Category:Cats