National Black Cat Day

Category: Animals
National Black Cat Day in United Kingdom in 2025
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2026 United Kingdom Tuesday, October 27thNational Black Cat Day
2025 United Kingdom Monday, October 27thNational Black Cat Day
2024 United Kingdom Sunday, October 27thNational Black Cat Day
2023 United Kingdom Friday, October 27thNational Black Cat Day
2022 United Kingdom Thursday, October 27thNational Black Cat Day
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National Black Cat Day was created by Cats Protection on October 27th 2011. When the campaign was launched, statistics revealed that black and black-and-white cats took, on average, seven days longer to find a home compared to cats of other colours.

Thousands of people backed the UK’s first-ever Black Cat Awareness Day – as it was known then – on October 27th, which drew attention to the hundreds of homeless black cats in Cats Protection’s care and the apparent reluctance of people to adopt them.

In most Western cultures, black cats have typically been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens, specifically being suspected of being the familiars of witches, or actually shape-shifting witches themselves.

Most of Europe considers the black cat a symbol of bad luck, particularly if one walks across the path in front of a person, which is believed to be an omen of misfortune and death. In Germany, some believe that black cats crossing a person's path from right to left, is a bad omen, but from left to right, the cat will bring good luck.

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