I have two black kitties: Wally, so-named because he was dumped in a Wal-Mart parking lot when he was just a tiny baby; and Dex, who came from my young mailman whose wife just had a baby. His name was Dexter, but I didn't want him to be a serial killer. We had two black cats when my kids were little -- they named them Pinky Snuff and Dinky Doo. Who knows why.