NaNoWriMo Muse Fodder

There are so many ideas that can be tossed into the muse fodder bin that pertain to Halloween. Black cats are another one. Not just house cats, how about a black jaguar? Maybe your detective has found a match book to a business that has a black cat as the logo? Does your heroine in your romance novel have a black cat? Did your superstitious hero just have a black cat cross his path? Maybe the daughter of your hero has a favorite stuffed animal that is a black cat? Or your magician lead used jaguars in his magic show? Did the black jaguar escape from the zoo? Or does the actor in your novel have a fear of big cats and must do a scene in his movie with a black jaguar?