Everything You've Been Told About the "Grays" is Bunk (Page 22 of 24)

[SNIP]   Originally made a reference to a "crazy" post by Jen in another thread that has since been removed, so, my comments no longer apply and have been removed for that reason...

awww...black kitties get such a bad rap.     Once you've owned a black cat there's no going back.  They're the best breed I've seen so far.  Mine is emotionally smart, really sensitive, affectionate, talkative, curious, high energy, active like a kitten even though she's 6! very friendly and sociable.   She's got to be involved in anything we do.  She's like a dog cat!  She's even fetched paper balls like a dog!   Let's hear it for black cats! 

So no one likes Gray cats?

The sad part about black cats is the amount of superstitious predjudice they get....all because their fur looks black from a distance! (when you get one under bright sunlight you can see how the fur glistens in rainbow colors and actually has almost a reddish glow overall to it.)  They're just stunning when they're in good physical shape, loooong bodies, muscular, and fur that looks like a velvet coat.  Plus their faces are adorable!  If you have a Bombay, then they have these little wedge heads with huge yellow / green eyes, giving them a kitten-like appearance.   Unfortuntely, black cats are the least likely to get adopted at a shelter.    But yet, they'll be the best cat you've ever had.  Nothing compares to these cats' personalities, it's unbelievable.   People don't even realize.  I read a story once about a woman who worked at an animal shelter and was always seeing the black cats getting euthanized because nobody would adopt them.  One day there was a little black male kitten that was on its last day.  He was also the only kitten / cat that was playing in his cage, batting something around, full of pep and cuteness.  She was going around assigning names to the animals and came up with "Jellybean" for the black kitty.  The name sounded so cute that it got the attention of some people who came to look at the animals, and the black kitten wound up getting adopted that day.  After that, she began assigning the name Jellybean to all the black cats, and each time it worked, it would get people's attention and the cats would be adopted.     

"In 1958, a Kentucky (USA) breeder deliberately bred a black American shorthair and a sable-brown Burmese in an effort to creat a domestic cat that resembled the wild Panther. This novel combination successfully produced offspring that resembled the Black Leopard of India, The Bombay name, taken from the Indian city of Bombay (now Mumbai), honours the native country of the wild cousin."

Only if you have a closed mind.

You've hardly provided any legitimate answers.  Respect is something which is earned and based on your responses it is not requited.  This isn't a pissing contest, I was just trying to resolve some questions which I had.  See my first post.

Hey Lyra, what just happened? Cause tha . . it's . . there's . . ahh picture of the ahh . .  hotdog?! I thought it was gonna be what do these have in common? Is that what's going on? If so, the mimes threw me lol

Hi Jen,

Just wondering if you have any thoughts about my post to you back on the 20th.  It was an interesting dialogue. 

cheers