Oh they're gorgeous, I love black cats!
We adopted two litter sisters who'd been left on the doorstep of a local cat rescue society. They were in a cardboard box, taped closed, no air holes and they can't have been more than four weeks old.
The rescue society knew I was looking for two female kittens, so rang to ask if I'd be willing to take these two as my family have always had cats and they needed someone who was experienced enough to look after such young 'babes'.
We named them Salt (tortoiseshell) and Pepper (jet black), Salt weighed 13 ozs and Pepper was just 11 ozs, so they were teeny tiny!
It was a miracle they survived, mainly due to my patience with them and feeding them day and night using an eye dropper!
We must have done something right with them, because Pepper lived to be fifteen years and three months, Salt got to twenty years and four months!
They were both gorgeous girls, even though Salt was completely insane as are many tortoiseshells.