It can be more difficult to adopt a black cat near Halloween for superstitious reasons.
If you’re interested in adding a black cat to your family around Halloween, you might have a little trouble tracking one down.
In 2017, Lynda Garibaldi, director of The Cats’ Cradle shelter in Morganton, North Carolina, told HuffPost that their organization does “not adopt out black cats during the month of October … because of superstition and the concern that the wrong people (who might harm them) might adopt them.
”Emily Weiss, vice president of Shelter Research and Development at the ASPCA, confirmed that “this used to be a pretty common” precaution. Thankfully, she added that these days, some shelters hold special adoption promotions around Halloween that focus on finding black cats their fur-ever homes.
