My new sidekick

Since I lost George nearly two years ago, I thought it was about time I found myself a new best bud. So I contacted the RSPCA and ended up adopting this little fellow.

He's five years old, and his old owner passed away He didn't seem to respond to any name, so I've called him Cornelius.

I can understand why some women turn into crazy cat ladies. I adore him, he's so regal and loving!

It also saddens me that black cats are the last to be adopted. This isn't the middle ages, people!

awwww...he's so handsome!

Shameless rep whoring... some things never change!

cornelius & zelda could be siblings!

can't see it in this pic, but she has the same little tuft of white on her chest.

Does Zelda have a white patch on her tummy too?

nope. just the chest and the 2 white toes.

Black cats are evil.

Pandora:


Lilith:

Nice to see you got a familiar!

Rexfelis approves!

(Oh, and about 50% of my cats over the decades, to include our current cat, have been black cats- they're the best kind.)

People... The politically correct term is "African-American Cats."

I wonder why black cats (or cats in general) were associated with witchcraft in medieval times and colonial times?

I guess people were just stupid back then. Cool cat you've got there!

Wasn't there a time when anything black was considered evil?

"He wears too much black. Let's see if he's a vampire!"
"She wears black. She's obviously a witch. To the stake with her!"

We have an all black cat. It's the best behaved of the bunch.
BTW we just picked up a cheap laser pointer and even our old fat one got involved to some extent.

Cats and laser pointers are a match made in heaven.

Which is ridiculous. When I was in high school, I was a very devout Christian, carried my Bible everywhere, people knew who I was, etc. Anyway, one day I wore all black, for no reason, and many of my friends thought I had sold my soul to Satan, which was absurd! I wouldn't do that for another 15 years.



Anyhoo, adorable kitty, Summerteeth. Congratulations on your new feline friend.

What a pretty boy! One of the best cats I ever owned (or was owned by) was a black cat. She used to sit in my lap, gently take her claws, wrap them around the edges of my glasses and pull them down slightly so that she could look in my eyes.

One of our best cats ever was a black one. His name was Salem.

Our current cat can be seen in the latest picture thread. His name is

Summerteeth, I'll better Cornelius's cuteness factor with the wifes rabbit!

He's called Alan!



Likes sitting on the windowsill like a cat, and getting jiggy with his football!

Earl (The Pearl Grey Tea), Sango and Momo.

Earl weighs close to 24lbs, tried to do a size perspective with a Coke can a while back and him trying to fit into a windowsill. I have better pictures of Sango somewhere, showing off her half-tail, but am not feeling well enough to search them out today.

Alan seems to change colour every other week. I took this the other day when he went all Donny Darko and turned into Evil Alan!

In SERE school we had to kill either a rabbit or a chicken with our bare hands. The whole time I was in line I was wishing 'give me a chicken, give me a chicken, give me a chicken.'

I got a rabbit.

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Click the picture!

Tomato!

Does he like you? I mean does he know you are you and does he like to interact with you?

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She seems to. She'll sit calmly in my hand for a long time (especially if I'm petting her). The other one, an albino mouse, doesn't like to be handled at all; she tries to get away and poops constantly.

Here's the blackest cat in our current pride. He is, not quite right, and generally a disappointment to the fur color. I blame the white highlighting. Black cat = good, tuxedo cat = mess.

Has anyone else got a microchip cat flap? I have one for Cornelius. It's amazeballs and does the job perfectly -- although I couldn't help but take a picture of this visitor trying to get in.

To be fair to it though, I'm terrible for encouraging neighbours' cats with cuddles and food, so I'm not surprised they try to visit all the time.

FUCK. NO.

Last time Pandora got out it was a damn $400 vet bill. As far as those little assholes are concerned the world is 1100sf and windows are nothing but TV screens.