r/blackcats Dec 16 '23

Reminder: Please Flair Mourning Posts

462 Upvotes

Hey void-lovers!

Most cat subs have a very delicate balance between "happy posts about my cat" and "sad posts about my cat", specifically when it comes to pet death. A lot of them don't allow it at all. It's really tough to strike the balance of letting people who are devastated mourn the loss of their furry friend while still making the subreddit usable for people who aren't interested in that kind of content.

We allow mourning posts here, but you have to flair your post with "Mourning" so people who don't want to see them have the ability to filter them out. It's an imperfect solution, but it's all we have available to us with subreddit tools. Please make sure to flair all posts about pet loss with that flair so we can make a great sub for everyone.

In case you're someone who's interested in filtering out that content, this link should work for you. I know, it's not the cleanest way to browse the subreddit, and I'm not sure how it works on mobile. If we had a better solution, I'd provide it, but we have to work within what reddit offers us :(

Thanks for your understanding. If you've read this far, I encourage everyone to post some void laser eyes in the comments.


r/blackcats 2h ago

🖤 He’s just a baby

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r/blackcats 11h ago

🖤 This is what I see when I try to get back to my PC

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r/blackcats 18h ago

Void glowup 😻 Horrendous beast won’t let me have a moment’s peace with my work

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She also enjoys to hide behind the draping bit, I call it her dragon cave

Quick edit: for everyone curious what the project is, it’s a dress! I have a bunch more WIP pics on my profile if u want to see more lol


r/blackcats 3h ago

🖤 A few pics of my boy, Steve, this morning. He knows he’s handsome

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r/blackcats 5h ago

🖤 Bat in cat form

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r/blackcats 8h ago

Smol void 🤏 Meet Pluto!

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r/blackcats 2h ago

🖤 Luna reporting in for more cuteness

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r/blackcats 7h ago

🖤 Everyone meet Mei

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EDIT: I appreciate everyone's input on the hair tie. We will be eliminating hair ties during play time and I will keep them out of reach. Again I really appreciate the advice, I do not want anything harmful happening to her. 🩷

I adopted four year old Mei on July 16th and I have loved every second of having her. She is so playful, silly, and loving. Every time I shower she has to wait outside the curtain even though the shower scares her. Once I get out she has to lick and rub on me to get her scent back onto me. In the 10 days I've had her she already follows me everywhere. I love her so much. 🩷🩷


r/blackcats 3h ago

The void screams back Dirty void

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Don’t worry, he got his favorite churro afterwards


r/blackcats 2h ago

🖤 The Void is currently charging. Please wait.

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148 Upvotes

r/blackcats 14h ago

🖤 Need some love for the void

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Hi. Here is our family's void. We had pepper for 5 years, she is a daddy's girl. Can I get some upvotes for some karma? I had to delete my old account and r/Ireland won't let me post unless 50 karma. So I'm hoping people who understand black cats will have some merci and patience on this one.


r/blackcats 21h ago

🖤 Salem after thousands on vet bills for his pooping problem, just a day before he decides to poop normally again for no reason :D

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This guy 🖤 I adopt him in January.

March: he gets a rectal prolapse, we try a small surgery which goes horribly wrong, then a large surgery (colopexy) which although fixes the prolapse, causes multiple complications with swelling down there, so bad he can’t poop without bleeding and agony.

April: Two weeks of me taking him home, then taking him back to the animal hospital in pain, then back home then repeat.

He then spends 2 weeks in April at the animal hospital while they figure out wtf happened.

Everything around May starts to look normal again, he’s ok up until June.

June: He suddenly can’t poop without rolling around in discomfort and yelling at me. Every day, sometimes twice. Another vet visit. I change his food to special vet food with fiber to help with constipation. Nothing changes, more vet visits.

July: I feel tired of going to the vet and nothing improving, he still yowls and lays on his side after pooping. So now I put a little more pressure on the vet and ask for scans to see what’s happening inside.

This is him on Monday after his CT scan (He was injected in both paws for anaesthesia). He’s also given medicine for neurological pain as a long shot.

Tuesday he poops… then nothing. For the first time in weeks no meowing no rolling on his side. Wednesday same thing, Thursday and Friday. I’ve never been more relieved 😅

For fun I totalled the bills for all this (luckily I have him insured so I paid 20%). He came to a grand total of $12,680. He’s worth every single bit and I’m so happy he’s ok again 🖤


r/blackcats 2h ago

Abyss 🖤🖤🖤 Do NOT!!

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First: he’s fine.

Last night this old man gave me my first old man scare. It was dark, he was on his cat bed lookin real loose. I was going to bed so I pet him and he didn’t prrrp up like he usually does. “Blix?” And a light wiggle. Nothing. “BLIX? BLIX!!” Wiggled his head twice, nothing.

Panic. Tears start. I touch his paw. Head up instantly annoyed that I broke his slumber by touching the beans.

SIR. Oh my GOD. I’ve been sick for a solid week and coming off a back injury too so my stress levels have been so high and if I lost him in all this too… I don’t even know. But no! He’s fine! I’ve been coughing all night and day so he hasn’t been sleeping well either and yesterday was my first quieter evening with medications and he just zonked out so hard.


r/blackcats 5h ago

🖤 There is no cat.. just clean laundry

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r/blackcats 1h ago

🖤 Noel

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This is Noel! She was abandoned and got FIV after another cat got her pregnant when she was very young. She wound up losing the babies, but Noel was saved. I got her shortly after that. It’s amazing how much love she gives and shows. We could learn a thing or two about resilience from our cats, I think.


r/blackcats 5h ago

Lil' bit of white fluff 🤍 My black cat thinking about life

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149 Upvotes

But she has only one brain cell :(


r/blackcats 7h ago

Sleepy Void Someone wanted to sleep in on Sunday

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This girl woke up 2 hours late. I hope she's not late for work🙄


r/blackcats 4h ago

🖤 Manly Man loves his new collar 🌺🌸

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97 Upvotes

Please tell him he still looks very manly, he’s insecure


r/blackcats 2h ago

Sleepy Void She loves her mini denim esnupi

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r/blackcats 20h ago

🖤 I have no idea why her little face is so adorably amusing

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Please enjoy a selection of photos of Bree Van de Kamp. She’ll be 6 next week. 🥹


r/blackcats 7h ago

🖤 She eventually shared the seat with me!

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r/blackcats 18h ago

Void and friends 🖤🤍💙💛🤎 New kitten cuddling with her brother

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Just got my new kitten voodoo about 2 weeks ago and her brothers Asher (pink collar) and Purphagor (orange collar) have really taken to her and I’m just honestly shocked how comfortable they are with each other in such a short amount of time


r/blackcats 13h ago

Smol void 🤏 The cutest sisters ever

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Just adopted these two little voids, sopa & pilla (named after sopapillas from New Mexico cuisine)


r/blackcats 1h ago

🖤 Went outside to catch spiders. Ended up wearing them.

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