Yep. Same out here. I loathe people sometimes ~ but then there are always the good guys. I try to look for the good guys.Poor black cats. My vet told me that the shelters sometimes don't let people adopt black cats around Halloween because people do unspeakable things to them - she had one that had a firework tied to his tail.
I have always had black cats it seems and my current big beautiful boy is Nightshade and they let me adopt him at Halloween because they knew me from donating things to the shelter.
Just makes me so upset that people are that cruel to animals.