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Black cats are adopted from shelters less often than cats of other coat colors.

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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that black cats are adopted from shelters less often than cats of other coat colors?

Unclear. Three shelter studies (two Colorado shelters, one Kentucky shelter) report black cats taking longer to adopt or having lower adoption rates, though the Kentucky authors describe the support as weak, and a large Australian study of 39 shelters found no significant difference by coat color. The evidence covers only a few local shelter populations, not a general adoption-rate comparison.

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Evidence for · 3
Coat Color and Cat Outcomes in an Urban U.S. Shelter -
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Coat Color and Cat Outcomes in an Urban U.S. Shelter - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10101720

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Coat Color and Cat Outcomes in an Urban U.S. Shelter.
2020
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RM, C., J, S., & JD, W. (2020). Coat Color and Cat Outcomes in an Urban U.S. Shelter.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10101720

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Cats in Animal Shelters: Exploring the Common Perception that Black Cats Take Longer to Adopt
2013
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Kogan, L., Schoenfeld-Tacher, R. M., & Hellyer, P. W. (2013). Cats in Animal Shelters: Exploring the Common Perception that Black Cats Take Longer to Adopt. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874318820130718001

Black cat
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Black cat. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat

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