My pumpkin prince🎃

Via @mxmclain

I just love black cats so much 🖤

Media black cats supremacy 🛐

When your cat meows a lot, you end up with a lot of pictures that look like this 😂

This is Noni cat, and I got her 8 years ago from the shelter. They told me she was maybe six years old when I swiped my credit card for her.

She’s been a pretty active cat for at least the last 6 years; when I was living alone with just Noni as my roommate, she would jump out of my open 3 story window down to the second story window and demand food and pets, which my neighbor was happy to provide. Luckily he only had to do this once, but I was still mortified (especially since I was living in a no pets place and passing off my adoption of a cat as “my coworker is going through a divorce and asked me to watch his cat for a few weeks so that his ex didn’t cause more trouble” and all my neighbors were single older men, and I worked in a motorcycle place with 90% male coworkers so it honestly did fly under the radar…the only reason I was able to get her at all was because I did laundry/cleaning for one of my single coworkers for a week and put his number down as my landlord and he was like “yes, she can get a kitty, she’s done a really good job of keeping things clean and being responsible, I trust her.” FYI, I was also taking his dog on play dates at the doggie park down the street from me on my days off just for my own amusement, so like. He wasn’t my actual landlord but he also wasn’t lying about my ability to take care of an animal.)

Anyway, the only reason I ever ended up with Noni was because on my second date with my now husband I said I didn’t know if I wanted to buy a cat or a gun, and he and I spent 8 hours just bumming around all the pet places and gun shops that we both knew about (and meeting my aunt and grandparents because they live just up the street from one of the best pawnshops in the area, I “have some mail I need to pick up right quick, it’s just a five minute detour” and oh my goodness…you know that feeling when you see your family immediately like the person you’re dating? Yeah.)

So after husband and I move in together but before anything is official…there is a wildly out of control feral cat population in the area his apartment was in. Noni cat was fine, because she only ever hung out in the front or back yard, but the lady two houses up would put out multiple trays of food for 30+ cats. She was very sweet but also wasn’t trapping and spaying/neutering them, and we didn’t have any central ac (so doors open and fans on, we die like men, sleep with ice packs, and scrub the mud daughter nests out with dawn dish soap), so every summer, about once a week, I’d hear typical cat fighting noises, and go charging out to the living room where some random cat had Noni cornered. I stomp and shout and chase the stay cat out, Noni cuddles me for ten minutes in gratitude before the heat is too much for both of us, we move on.

Then me and husband buy a house in 2018. We move into our new suburban paradise, but alas…Noni cat is a straight up gangster cat, right out of Commerce City.

In all the years we have lived in this house, Noni cat has left a minimum of ten bunny corpses on the front lawn. Per summer.

I love her, I really do. And I recognize that cats should be indoor pets, for environmental reasons. But I legit cried when she brought a still alive baby bunny to the door (with every intention of eating it as is on the living room floor) and she accidentally dropped it and it tried to run away and instead of doing anything productive I just went inside and cried to my husband. Who laughed at me, rightfully so.

Anyway, she’s getting older now, and there’s definitely something wrong with her. She didn’t murder any baby bunnies at all this summer, got “old cat skinny and bony” and honestly refuses to go outside at all. She was always super cuddly during winter because cats like warm things, but now she wants cuddles and attention all the time.

With me starting a new job, I don’t necessarily have the money to get her fully checked out. I want to, she isn’t just a great cat, she’s the only cat my husband has ever liked; she’s wonderful and worth every penny, but fuck are we in a tight spot with his medical stuff and me having three jobs in the last 18 months. There’s no fucking ROOM on the credit cards to take care of her.

Husband found a vet that charges a lot less, but is an hour outside of town. What we save in vet bills we spend in gas to get there.

I don’t really have a point I’m leading up to, or a critical argument or analysis…my cat is dying and it fucking sucks on so many levels, because she was so instrumental in how I got where I am.

I just wanted to tell her/my story and have it be shared with random strangers who might have an interest.

Omg y'all I have been blessed 😭😭😭

There are a bunch of feral cats roaming the neighborhood. I've been trying to make friends with them for months but they're mostly very skittish. Today, however, I met this little angel.

They let me pet them! 🥹🖤 They liked it when I slow blinked at them and went "pspspsps" and they sat with me for about half an hour. They kept purring and headbutting my hand for more pets. I am over the moon! 😭🥰

Eve is really starting to show us her personality. And, like many rescued former feral felines, she seems to be a huge suck for affection. Merry Christmas, my loves 🥰✨

Welcome. A black cat came to tell you that Friday the 13th is the luckiest day of the year.

This is my entry to Drawtober on deviantArt, number 13. Thirteen. I'm a bit late, but for today's promp, i.e. 14. Moon, it also fits.

I'm having some fun and experimenting with the possibility of making gifs in GIMP. For now, it's very primitive and is working like two pieces of paper sticked only with saliva - but who knows where I'll go with it ;)

Art & idea (c) Nayia Lovecat (don't steal!)

Xion, Cloud's black cat Familiar, is determined to get Squall and Cloud talking. - So she invites herself into his room and forces Cloud to come and collect her as an excuse for them to meet.

But, while she's here, she may as well get some snuggles for her acts of initative and charity.

He is: derp

My cat was being unusually cute so I decided to share. His name is Ya'Su. He's 16.

Look at his sweet face 😻

My cat is so spoiled. The bathroom sink is HERS. She likes to have company when she eats. I just bought her a water fountain thingie so I can finally leave the faucet off. She likes running water. 🖤🥰

She’s so adorable. I love my Sabrina ❤️