Way back on Thanksgiving we adopted a kitten from our local animal shelter, just two weeks before the shelter shut down. She was a 12 week old black kitten that lived only to be held and loved, which is exactly what I needed in my life. Her name is Emma, because of her Emmarold-green eyes.
She gets along great with Lily and Otto, and has brought great joy to the singular household. The only problem is getting a good picture of her - I never knew how hard it is to get a good picture of a black cat! Here’s my little beauty!
She is such a trip - endless energy, followed by sudden collapse on whoever is closest to cuddle with, be it man or reluctant beast. She’s energized the other pets, too - their supercharged play is a delight! I’m especially fond of when she catches a glimpse of me across the room and suddenly bounds over to me and up on my lap, nose-to-nose, her eyes locked on mine the whole time. She brings the sqees!
She’s a doll! You have some good Lol cat material right there.
Awwwwwwwwww! I love that one pose, she looks like a supermodel. The one with the dog is sweet, you should lolcat that one, something like “if goggie tells anyone about this I’ll kill it”.
Thanks for adopting a black kitty, they suffer from prejudice and don’t get adopted as much but most black kitties I have met are sweeties. I have one I brought home to foster as a tiny fluff ball who ended up staying with me, he likes Eskimo kisses, meows like a little kitten and is now my largest (not fat) cat. I tried taking pictures when he was tiny and it just looks like a black smudge or dustball, you can’t make out any eyes or nose.
Aww, how cute. She looks a lot like our shelter-rescued acrobat did in her youth.
It’s hard to take pictures of black cats. Sometimes you just gotta wait until they’re comfortable.
I know the feeling! I’ve had a couple of black cats the last few years. Their details tend to fade into the background, unless you get the lighting just right…
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Awwwwwww
She’s sweet.
Congratulations.
Wow, what a cutie!
Joe
I have a black kitty and if he’s any example, they are all so sweet. And yours is no exception. What a lovely little black beauty!
What a cute little fuzzmeister!
The best time to photograph black cats is when they are relaxing in the sun and their fur looks like a lovely chocolate brown color, especially the tummies.
Thanks, folks! I do want to catch her napping in the sun, but catching her sleeping is rare - she seems to sleep while I’m at work or she sleeps with me, but I’ll keep it up. I did get one shot of her when she was doing the runrightupyourlegtoyourchestwhilelockingeyes bit, catching her in closeup and heavily flashed, and I was surprised that her fur did look chocolate brown with darker brown tabby stripes underneath. There’s beautiful black kittehs here at the Dope! I’m glad to join the club - she does seem to be just about the sweetest kitteh evar!