If you ever wondered why there were so many black cats, I found out that black cats are the patterning result of a mixed bag of genetics. In Seven’s case, her mum is a Siamese and the father one of the local toms. Seven is blessed with the friendly, yowly temperament of our previous Siamese cat and in our house she’s the Alpha cat. She gets first choice of all boxes and would, if she could, sit in all of them at once.