With just one day to go until National Black Cat Day, we thought we’d meet some of the darker cats in our care. Will you be the loving new owner these beautiful black cats need?

A Cats Protection branch has homed four kittens found nestled in a plant pot. Our Stoke & Newcastle Branch was called out to a rented house in early September – the tenants had been feeding a stray cat then discovered her litter in their yard.

Looking at Baggypuss today, you wouldn’t guess at his past life as a starving stray, pushed away by people in a bus queue as he searched for scraps.

The black-and-white cat, dubbed Shell by Bridgend Adoption Centre staff, was discovered by local resident Caroline Roberts earlier in September, after she heard meowing. Caroline had searched her area trying to track down the source of the noise without success.

Ginger tabby Kitz was discovered among a group of stray and feral cats by a volunteer for Cats Protection’s Breckland branch. The charity was called in to help trap, neuter and return them to help control the population and prevent the spread of disease.

A cat and her three kittens abandoned in a forest have been given a second chance at life, thanks to Cats Protection. Mother cat Lucy and her three eight-day-old kittens were tied up in a bin bag and dumped in a wood.

Cats Protection has found new homes for some unwanted hotel guests – a mother cat and her eight kittens. The charity’s Fareham & Waterlooville Districts Branch in Hampshire, England, was called out to a hotel in July to catch the stray cat and her kittens, who were living in the eaves.

“It all started with a phone call asking if we would be able to acquire two outdoor cats or kittens for a house with a two-acre garden on the outskirts of Slough,” said Ray Janes, volunteer field worker for Maidenhead, Slough & District Branch.