Just a friendly reminder...

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Anyone who owns black cats please remember to keep them in over Halloween. A lot of people on Halloween night and Mischief Night (the night before) think its fun to harm or even kill black cats for superstitious reasons.

So just a friendly reminder to keep all of your kitties safe!

What's wrong? Its a genuine problem and even more dangerous with the M25 cat killer about (which reminded me to make this post).

Have you never heard of this?

"A lot of people on Halloween night and Mischief Night (the night before) think its fun to harm or even kill black cats for superstitious reasons."

A lot of people...are you sure?

Why do you think you might be unreasonable?

I have never heard of this.

I think you are getting caught up in American urban myths

My cat had a firework shoved down it's throat and lit a few Halloween ago. But I've never heard of the superstition reason. I figured it was a bunch of evil bastard who thought it would be funny to see an animal suffer

Never heard of it either

I've heard of this happening plenty of times in the UK too, I know its mainly in America but not unheard of here.

If you've seen the amount of times people put poison in food down in parks to kill dogs, its not a far reach for you to believe this too

I was just trying to help people and remind them to keep their pets safe.

I don't think "Mischief Night" is a thing in the UK is it? Never heard of it.

We had mischief night in Yorkshire when I was growing up. Wasn't v nice.

Oh absolutely the right thing to do spare

I just haven't heard of it

I'm not saying they're doing it because they believe it will do anything for them. Its just a 'thing' people do. And growing up I heard kids in my school laughing about trying to catch a black cat.

Mischief Night is a thing here, in school groups of kids would go around and egg people's houses etc. (I never did because I was too scared of my mum!)

YANBU , but all cats should be in in the dark anyway and particularly at the moment because of the fireworks .

Yep we did mischief night when I was a teen. Mostly throwing eggs at other teens who were doing it. Not at random strangers. We were well behaved mischiefers. But we never planned to kill or harm an animal

I have heard about black cats being harmed on Halloween a few times.

OP is trying to be kind so those heaping scorn on her aren't being very kind back are they? What harm is she doing just warning people?

If you can show a source that this is a thing then I'll believe it.

It's bullshit though, it doesn't happen. Stop perpetuating nonsense myths spread over social media. This one is at least harmless.

Are you joking?

I know about the cat killing nutter, but Mischief Night & cats isn't a thing is it?

I have 2 black cats (witch that I am )

Seriously? The m25 killer is a nut job as far as I can tell and nothing to do with Halloween.

Mischief night is a thing here in West Yorkshire, but I’ve never heard of it being specifically targeted at cats. Petty vandalism mostly.

Shit. We've adopted a black cat recently. Thanks op, will keep him in he will go fucking mad though

Article about cats going missing in N.Yorkshire:

www.rt.com/uk/405652-witchcraft-black-cat-halloween/

Article about a cat (although not fully black) being mutilated. A quote says that “The vicar told Missy’s owner that every year, around Halloween, a ‘prank’ involving a mutilated animal occurs at the church.”

www.express.co.uk/news/nature/727070/Warning-Graphic-Content-mutilated-body-pet-cat-used-desecrate-war-memorial

Its so odd because I always thought black cats were good luck!

Mischief = vandalism.

Same as free spirit = annoying smug tosser.

Mischief night is a thing here as well - liverpool. Someone threw a stone at our front window and smashed it a couple of yrs ago. I think its more up north, night before halloween.

The RSPCA also reported that black cats are harder to adopt, for many reasons, including superstitions.

news.rspca.org.uk/2014/07/30/dont-focus-on-the-photos-snap-up-a-black-cat/