Unexpected Benefit of Black Panther: my local pet shelters went from having something like 50-60 black cats between them to having NONE, becuase they’ve all been adopted out and named after the characters. “T’challa” is the most popular, but there are a fair number of “Okoye”s and “Shuri”s as well.
…and one very confused Elderly Humane Society Volunteer wondering why someone would name such a sweet cat “Killmonger”.
For everyone in the comments worried about the cats being abandoned after the ‘fad’ fades:
I live in Durango, CO and the shelters are SUPER small so they do thier best to make sure people are really ready to take a pet home for good. In order to adopt, you have to:
- Fill out a questionaire about what facilities your home has and how you plan to take care of this aimal. If the shelter sees something amiss (Trying to keep a nervous dog in a house full of children, not knowing jack about repitle husbandry, etc.) they won’t let you adopt that animal.
- Everyone is given a “Get Ready For pet!” Checklist of supplies, houseproofing, and medical procedeures that will be needed for an animal before you can adopt. Seeing the full checklist and cost tends to weed out people who weren’t terribly serious about keeping an animal.
- All but one of the local shelters is no-kill, and the kill shelter doesn’t let people return animals to them, instead sending them off to one of the five no-kill places.
According to Mary who runs the cattery, these cats are mostly being adopted to people who were looking to adopt *A* cat in general, then see the black kitties and go “LIKE BLACK PANTHER” and take them home, so for once, black cats are being adopted first.
Also, cat adoptions are up in general, so that’s also great!
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