This post has been deliberately précised into an infographic. I am summarising in a few words hundreds of years of black cat history. 😉 But that is the point. To try and focus on the knub of the matter.
The ad hoc development of the moggie black cat in which random-bred cats with jet-black coats were selectively bred out of the domestic cat population in Europe is in complete contrast to the selective breeding of purebred cats nowadays in which a glossy jet-black coat is fully appreciated in the cat fancy and is de rigueur for the Bombay, a purebred domestic cat that must be totally black to resemble the black panther which ironically is never jet-black but which retains ghost donut spots! 🙄😎 That’s another story.
However, the black moggie cat is still subject to negative, ad hoc selective breeding as black shelter cats are euthanised more than other coats as they are more often unwanted compared to other coat types thanks to continuing superstition by most of humanity. Supersitition was behind the Medieval slaughter and it continues. Only this time the black cats are rarely jet-black.
Here is the infographic.
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