{"id":4828,"date":"2017-04-02T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:07:03","slug":"three-black-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/three-black-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Black Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at this little pile of kitty love!!! These are three of the foster kittens we had last year. Happily, they were all adopted, yay. Sometimes people don’t want to adopt black cats for fear that they bring bad luck. I can tell you that this is ridiculous. Black cats have the best personalities and the softest fur. We have two black cats!<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>
Three Black Cats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a fun little ditty that my mom wrote (sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice):<\/p>\n

\n

Three black cats.
\nThree black cats.
\nSee how they sleep.
\nSee how they sleep.
\nThey all pile together in a great big heap
\nYou can\u2019t find their tails in a pile so deep
\nDid you ever see such a sight when you peep
\nAs three black cats.<\/p>\n

And here are ten good reasons to adopt a black cat:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Top<\/a>
Top Ten Reasons to Adopt a Black Cat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at this little pile of kitty love!!! These are three of the foster kittens we had last year. Happily, they were all adopted, yay. Sometimes people don’t want to adopt black cats for fear that they bring bad luck. I can tell you that this is ridiculous. Black cats have the best personalities and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-4828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-few-other-things","category-wilmington-wildlife","tag-cats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-1fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3653,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/our-kitchen-renovation\/","url_meta":{"origin":4828,"position":0},"title":"Our Kitchen Renovation","author":"Karen","date":"October 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Our kitchen was undoubtedly thought of as state-of-the-art when it was built. 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