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Black cats on Halloween
This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating. Tonight is
Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanageme...ckcatmonth.htm |
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Black cats on Halloween
Bobcat wrote:
This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating. Tonight is Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanageme...ckcatmonth.htm Halloween has never been a big deal in Australia and until the mid 1980's was completely ignored other than religious folk who went to church.(a small minority) Basically the American tradition has slowly been copied and encouraged by the big stores to sell stuff before the next big consumption orgy at Xmas. |
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Black cats on Halloween
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Netmask wrote: Bobcat wrote: This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating. Tonight is Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanageme...ckcatmonth.htm Halloween has never been a big deal in Australia and until the mid 1980's was completely ignored other than religious folk who went to church.(a small minority) Basically the American tradition has slowly been copied and encouraged by the big stores to sell stuff before the next big consumption orgy at Xmas. Same thing happened in the UK, as I understand it - about the time Wal-Mart started its international expansion. I am not, however, going to speculate on a cause-and-effect relationship. Baird -- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. -Yogi Berra |
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Black cats on Halloween
"Baird Stafford" wrote in message
... In article , Netmask wrote: Bobcat wrote: This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating. Tonight is Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanageme...ckcatmonth.htm Halloween has never been a big deal in Australia and until the mid 1980's was completely ignored other than religious folk who went to church.(a small minority) Basically the American tradition has slowly been copied and encouraged by the big stores to sell stuff before the next big consumption orgy at Xmas. Same thing happened in the UK, as I understand it - about the time Wal-Mart started its international expansion. I am not, however, going to speculate on a cause-and-effect relationship. Baird -- IIRC what we now call "Halloween" originated in Scotland centuries ago Jill |
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Black cats on Halloween
"Bobcat" wrote in message
... This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating. Tonight is Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. http://cats.about.com/cs/catmanageme...ckcatmonth.htm John kept Raisin (an indoor/outdoor kitty) inside last night. He knows his neighbors wouldn't hurt her but there are some teenagers in town who have been in some pretty serious trouble if you can believe the scuttlebutt. Not to mention there were lots of tourists in town with their families. Better safe than sorry. Jill |
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Black cats on Halloween
This is an often-posted reminder, but it's worth repeating.
Tonight is Halloween (except for Australia etc. where it's over). Many websites warn about letting black cats outdoors on Halloween. There are a lot of sickos who'd harm, even kill black cats on this night. If you have a black cat, consider keeping him/her indoors until Halloween's over. Fortunately our little black Sophie is safe because she's a permanent indoor cat. Boy, does this bring back memories! Our first Halloween in Florida, my mom and I put up decorations in every window. We were the most popular apartment in the building. Trick-or-treaters were coming both to our front door, and the patio door. Why the patio door? We had a live exhibit, a very friendly black cat who had adopted us several weeks ago whom we named Capt. Midnight. After a while, when the neighborhood started to change, Middie began spending his Halloweens inside. Sadly, or maybe not so, both Capt. Midnight and my mom are both together at The Bridge now, but that was probably the best Halloween I ever had. Debby Hanoka aka ChildFree23 |
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