MEET OUR ADOPTABLE PANTHERS

12 year old female

Sweet Pea has lived quite the life. After a 12-year-long journey across the cosmos, she landed here in Asheville. That UFO you swear you saw that one time? Yeah, Sweet Pea was probably behind the wheel. If you're lucky, you'll catch her blepping - this is a tactic she learned from her travels to Jupiter, where the aliens taught her all the best ways to pull on a human's heartstrings.

15 year old female

After years in service as the faithful house cat to a family that had the audacity to add human children to its ranks, Pippin decided to retire. She is seriously considering a new career as a population control specialist. Pippin believes there are far too many humans and cats being brought into the world and someone needs to advocate for less procreation!

1 year old male

George was in school for engineering, but he dropped out last week. He wants to do his own thing without the pressure of due dates and grades! So, he came to House of Black Cat Magic to study the handiwork of Kate Benjamin, who designed the cat lounge. He's hoping to collab with her on a line of cat trees someday soon!

6 year old female

Serafina is probably not angelic in the classic sense of the word--but sometimes angels can be kind of terrifying. She is a fierce mama devoted to making sure her six kittens get all the care and attention they need to succeed in life. However, she quite ready to be done with kitten-rearing. She has an interest mythology and the power it has to shape philosophies and maybe even change the world. Serafina is currently contemplating formally becoming a philosphy student.

6 month old male

BONDED W/ BETSY

Button-Bright is a tinkerer. He loves problem-solving, especially when it involves taking apart gadgets and putting them back together. He's also been working on some inventions of his own! So far, he's made a whosie-whatsit, a whatchamacallit, and a thingy-ma-jig... there's no telling what he'll do next!

6 month old female

Pepper is an aspiring acrobat. She's been training in the cat lounge, jumping from shelf to shelf. We've had to tell her repeatedly, "No swinging from the string lights!" but that's clearly the best way to practice her mid-air cartwheels.

6 month old female

BONDED W/ BUTTON

Betsy Bobbin is the troublemaker of her litter. She was born just a few weeks before April Fool's Day, which is when her obsession with silliness began. She loves to pull pranks on her siblings, and she's always scheming up the next one. Her favorite hobby is hiding whoopie cushions under her siblings' blankets and making fun of them for farting.

6 month old female

Joyride was the first of her littermates to get her driver's license, and she makes sure to exercise her ability to drive every day. She loves toting her siblings around in her 2008 Nissan Altima. Sure it has a few dents and scrapes, but it can still get up to 130mph! She's not the most responsible driver, but going fast is way more fun than going the speed limit.

9 month old male

BONDED W/ SVGI

Tsvdatsi, pronounced "juh-dah-jee," means "panther" in Cherokee. While this big housepanther can certainly intimidate his peers when he prowls around with his big paws and long sleek tail, but in reality, he's a big softy. Tsvdatsi is a painter, and he specializes in dadaism. He creates art inspired by the mundane, and puts a ridiculous twist on it. His magnum opus is a painting of a gold toilet with a certain politician's head sticking out of the bowl.

9 month old male

BONDED W/ TSVDATSI

Svgi, pronounced "shuh-gee," means "mink" in Cherokee. Much like a mink, Svgi is a very skilled architect and can build a den out of pretty much any materials. He admires the creativity of his ancestors who built houses from adobe back in ancient Egypt, and he's inspired by them to get even more creative. The other day, he made a boat out of cat treats! But he ate the whole thing before he got the chance to sail across the French Broad in it... maybe he should stop working with edible materials.

2 year old male

Milo, while dressed for the opera, envisions a future for himself as a virtuoso when it comes to the arts. However he is more suited to being a critic rather than a performer as he tend to sing off-key.

6 month old male

Nutty Bar had a dream of joining the circus, until he found out that the animals are usually mistreated. So now he's working out the logistics of creating his own show! Imagine a co-op circus, run by all the animals that perform. They make their own schedules, they choreograph their own performances, and they have benefits! No more sleeping in cramped metal cages at night, either, because they'll obviously have a budget for hotel rooms. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?!