I especially love black cats (I have two in my herd of 5 feline overlords) and one was a shelter kitty I adopted 10 years ago. I had always heard that alot of humane societies have this policy and the shelter we adopted Sylvain from (Tallahassee) has this policy as well. (My fiance and I were talking about something he'd read in the paper this morning where they were also including black or white German Shepherds this year.) Sylvain has the best all-around personality of any of my cats and I always get compliments from company on how personable he is. His little tail-less female counterpart, Salem, on the other hand...
Anyway, I digress... It might be an "urban legend" that there are widespread animal sacrifices on Hallowe'en, but unfortunately it does happen. I also think that news stories like this create a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, though, and give sick f*cks food for thought. Bored teens, budding serial killers, nuts who think that they are Satan's minions...there are plenty of idiots out there who wrongfully associate Hallowe'en with evil and animal sacrifice. Suspending adoptions of certain animals makes a measure of sense, but it just means that if these mental midgets can't get one from the humane society, they will find a stray or someone's pet to torture and kill. Everyday I lose a little more faith in the human race...
Anyway, I digress... It might be an "urban legend" that there are widespread animal sacrifices on Hallowe'en, but unfortunately it does happen. I also think that news stories like this create a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy, though, and give sick f*cks food for thought. Bored teens, budding serial killers, nuts who think that they are Satan's minions...there are plenty of idiots out there who wrongfully associate Hallowe'en with evil and animal sacrifice. Suspending adoptions of certain animals makes a measure of sense, but it just means that if these mental midgets can't get one from the humane society, they will find a stray or someone's pet to torture and kill. Everyday I lose a little more faith in the human race...