ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020
Coat Color and Cat Outcomes in an Urban U.S. Shelter.
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- Do Black Cats Look Less Adoptable? Human Judgments of Emotions and Adoptability in Online Shelter Photographs in the United States.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- The Influence of Cat Coat Colour, Eye Shape, and Pupil Size on Ratings of Adoptability Based on a Standardised Online Image, in an Australian Sample.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Animal sheltering: A scoping literature review grounded in institutional ethnography.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2023Article
- Cat Coat Color, Personality Traits and the Cat-Owner Relationship Scale: A Study with Cat Owners in Mexico.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- A Cross-Species Examination of Pro-White Color Bias Using a Novel Implicit Association Test.Anthrozoos · 2022Article
- Direct and Indirect Factors Influencing Cat Outcomes at an Animal Shelter.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Some nonhuman animal shelters have developed rehoming programs for black cats to remedy what they believe are their higher rates of euthanasia and lower rates of adoption. This study reviews humans' preferences/aversions to cats of various coat colors and uses contingency tables and multinomial logistic regression to test possible differences in outcomes (euthanasia, adoption, or transfer) for 7983 cats that entered an urban public shelter in Kentucky, USA from 2010 through 2011. While coat color overall was negligibly associated with cat outcomes in a contingency table, the pairwise difference between black and white cats was significant (
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