Turkey is indeed cat country (but they are all afraid of me (- -;). In a carpet shop in Cappadocia, I met an old grandfather with a white beard who had a female cat with a shiny black coat. The mother cat had four cubs, but none of them were pure black and all of them had more or less mixed colours. I exchanged emails with the shopkeeper and agreed to come back to see the cat later, and received a Christmas message from him that year. The following year I wrote to ask how the kittens were doing and was told that the mother cat had been in a car accident while crossing the road and only one had survived, and there was no further contact. "The things we love will one day cease to exist." Cats are lovely and so are the people.