Christina Websell wrote:

He has not forgotten that black cat that made his life a misery and he holds
a grudge against any black cat he sees.
Any black cat he sees isn't the one that did it as he moved away but he
hates any black cat now.
Boyfie is usually kind about letting anycat go through his garden. but not
black ones, he will fight them and he is not a fighter normally.

It's ironic, because his heroic defender was also a black cat. OK, a
tuxedo, but she was mostly black. (I often call Licky my "black cat"
even though he has some white.)

--
Joyce

"Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene