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Help black cats improve their luck

Cats Protection is holding its annual National Black Cat Day on Thursday 25 October to encourage more people to adopt unwanted black moggies.

Following the success of last year’s black cat campaign, the charity aims to raise awareness of the plight of black cats which tend to lose out on homes to more colourful varieties.

The UK’s leading feline welfare charity currently has around 1,300 black cats in its care and says that homes are far less easy to find for black cats than other felines.

“People seem to be more taken with torties, tabbies and other colours - perhaps due to a perception that variety adds spice,” said Danielle Draper, Manager at Cats Protection’s National Cat Adoption Centre in Sussex.

“Although it’s lovely to see these cats finding their forever homes, it’s sad to see black cats left waiting in the wings. They make up about 23 per cent of all the cats in Cats Protection’s care and each one waits around a week longer to be rehomed than the average cat.”

To raise awareness the charity is encouraging people to upload pictures and stories of their own black cats, and to change your profile pictures to a black cat for the day! We'll also be encouraging you to share your photos of yourselves transformed into black cats on CP's Facebook page. Get creative by dressing up, using face paints or wearing the downloadable black cat mask – and then get snapping!

One celebrity that will be supporting the campaign by donning a black cat costume is model Lucy Pinder, who recently volunteered at the charity’s North London Adoption Centre and was amazed to hear about how black cats are so often overlooked.

She said: “I was really surprised to hear that black cats take longer to find homes – it’s such a shame. Black cats make just as good pets as the more colourful moggies and often have particularly striking and noble looks so I’d recommend adopting a black cat to anyone thinking of getting a cat.”

To find out more about the campaign or to adopt a black cat, please visit www.cats.org.uk/black-cats.