Haha, I love the cat stories. I posted one just below your post, but it has a bit of a sad ending too. I hadn’t specifically heard about the black cats being affectionate actually until last week (but have reflected upon it a lot since then). I’m moving soon, and will have room for a dog to run and play at the new place, so I was trying to decide between a dog and a cat. So I was looking through all of the animals at the shelter’s website, and in the description for a particular black cat, it noted something like “Has the typical, affectionate personality, characteristic of black cats.” And I thought back to friends’ cats, my cats, etc. and all of the ones that would hop up and into my lap seemed to have been black.
Here’s a little post I found about black cats from a search:
http://funanimalfactstosaveanimals.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-cats-and-how-you-can-save-them.html
“I couldn’t find any actual research to back up this fact but there is a lot of anecdotal research from vets and pet owners (myself included) that report black cats are the most affectionate colour of cats. Fuego, my black cat featured on the right when he was a kitten,doesn’t leave my side when I’m sick and follows me everywhere.”
Thanks for the link.
That was a great story about your cat Pablo. I sympathize, I really don’t think we’ll ever have a better cat than Holly, certainly she’ll always be hubby’s fave cat of all time.