It's Halloween, and that means it's Black Cat Month

With October not only being Cancer Awareness Month, the 57th anniversary of the debut of I Love Lucy, and Halloween, it's also Black Cat Month. 

Please keep an eye out for stray black cats and stupid people doing stupid things to our black furry friends.

Many animal adoption shelters place a moratorium on black cat adoptions during October. They noticed an increase in black cat adoptions prior to Halloween and a return of many of those same black cats after the holiday because "it just isn't working out." In some cases, black cats have been found with their whiskers cut off, paws burned, shaved, and, in one case that I'm familiar with, hanged.

Black cats are not a costume accessory, and animal abuse should be prosecuted and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Here's a couple of pictures of my black cat , Sophie, who died September 20, 2007, and my mom's boyfriend's black cat , Midnight, now 14 years old, as well as some music for your listening pleasure, a little photo gallery of Sophie, and a photo gallery of black cats from everywhere.

  Sophie

  Midnight

 
"Year of the Cat," Al Stewart, 1976

 
"Honky Cat," Elton John, 1972

 
"Nashville Cats," The Lovin' Spoonful, 1966

 
"Cats in the Cradle," Harry Chapin, 1974

Here's to black cats everywhere!