Welcome to Fable!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We can't believe Fable's already been here for a week - and it's taken us this long to get around to making a blog post about it!  So by now, you've probably already seen her lounging around the annex.  When she first arrived here via On Angels' Wings, we brought her to our favorite vet, Cary Grove Animal Hospital.  There, an ultrasound and X-ray showed us that she has three kittens, and they were at least 45 days along.  That means they had, at most, two weeks left to go!  And that was one week ago - so we expect her to deliver any day now!

Here's some initial photos of our lovely new momcat:

Some quick news items before we give you bonus photos:

  • Tiffiny had a successful spay on Tuesday, and also had a bladder diverticulum surgically corrected at the same time. She's doing super fantastic and spending a lot of time recovering in the master bedroom.

  • Bear and Toast have reached graduation weight and will have their surgeries next Tuesday.

  • Mailbag will be happening as usual this weekend, with DJ included - but mailbag the following week, the 27th, will be canceled due to KA-Con 2!

  • DJ has created a new page to help explain our "No Sads" policy.

And here's some bonus photos of the Breakfast club!

Breakfast Kittens Update Photos!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Because the kittens have matured so much since the introduction/cheatsheet photos, we're going to provide a new set here.

A lot of folks have noticed that Chai is somewhat wall-eyed.  This is common for little kittens.  Their eyes are still developing.  It usually resolves itself around the time their eyes are changing from blue to their adult colors.  It's nothing to be concerned about now!

Not much news to share today - although it is news that Frolic has an adopter, who will be picking her up around 13:00 KATZ (Kitten Academy Time Zone) on Saturday the 9th!  Frolic gets along well here but we think she'll be happy to get to a place she can call her own that's a little less filled with cats.

Waffles - Male - Usually has ears dyed blue/green for identification purposes.

Donut - Male

Muffin - Female

Bearclaw - Male

Chai - Female

Egg - Female

Toast - Male - Usually has ears dyed red/brown for identification purposes.

Tiffiny - Momcat

...and here's all the rest!

Don't Call Me Late For Breakfast!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Chai - Female

On Angels' Wings brought us an extra kitten on Tuesday!  Welcome to tiny Chai!  She was bottle-fed for the first two weeks of her life, but fortunately, when we put her with Tiffiny, she immediately figured out how to nurse.  She's been gaining weight at an appropriate rate, and fits right in with her adopted cat-family!  While she's technically a few days older than Tiffiny's kittens, she's still the smallest of the crew.  At the rate she eats, that may not last long!

One quick, unrelated note:  Frolic has been adopted!  She's still hanging around the Academy until the start of next month, when she'll go home with her adopter!

We've added Chai's photo to the last post with the rest of the Breakfast Kittens, but she also got her own photoshoot - here's the extras from it!  

Welcome to Breakfast at Tiffiny's!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

You've probably already noticed our newest class in the Annex.  On Angels' Wings delivered them to us on Tuesday the 8th, and the shelter OAW rescued them from says that the kittens were born last Saturday, the 5th.  They seem like quite an advanced class; one arrived with one eye wide open, and another has already left the box!  Leaving the box at 3-4 days old is a record that will surely stand for some time!

We know it can be difficult to tell the orange kittens and the grey ones apart at this point!  We don't tend to put collars on kittens that are so small.  We've heard of coloring them a little with food dye and we are considering that possibility.  

Although the main kitten room will be free this weekend - all of Frolic's kittens are being adopted on Saturday around 13:00 KATZ - we may wait a little while before moving Tiffiny's class into the main room.  She seems a little anxious about other cats at the door and there's even more visibility in the main room.

We've been getting a lot of questions about why we have spelled the mom's name "Tiffiny" instead of the more common "Tiffany."  Firstly, Tiffiny is not unheard of as a spelling!  But more importantly, it's a pun on "Tiffin" - a word that in South India, where DJ is from, means a light breakfast or a snack.  

Just a quick note here:  Frolic still needs an adopter!  She gets along quite well with other cats and dogs!  You can apply for her or any of this class using the application link in the menu above!

Donut- Male

Toast - Male

Waffle - Male

Egg - Female

Muffin - Female

Bearclaw - Male

Tiffiny - Momcat

Chai - Female

As usual - here's the rest of the photoshoot!

Frolic's Furballs Graduation!

What - already?!

It's true - all of Frolic's kids are big enough now to graduate.  We've scheduled Gallivant and Roughhouse to go for their surgeries on Tuesday the 1st along with Bubbles and Faucet.  The rest of Frolic's kids - and Frolic herself - will hopefully be scheduled for their own surgeries the following Tuesday, the 8th.

All of Frolic's kids have been adopted and will have wonderful lives.  Gal and Revel get to stay together!  We're expecting all the kids to be picked up by their adopters on the 12th.

But Frolic still needs an adopter!  She's a total sweetheart and loves to play and eat treats.  We think she'll end up getting along with other cats, but we're still in the process of slowly introducing her to the Faculty to prove it out.  And don't get any ideas about us keeping her - now that we've adopted Maggie, we're full for sure!

If you want to apply to adopt you can do that right here.  We don't manage the applications ourselves, it's all down to the wonderful people at On Angels' Wings in Crystal Lake.  They'll allow adoptions from anywhere in the continental USA - if you'll come to pick up Frolic.

On Angels' Wings has already begun the process of checking animal shelters near and far for our next pregnant momcat!

Here's our graduation photos for Frolic's Furballs!

Roughhouse

Tumble

Prance

Revel

Gallivant

Frolic

As usual, we have a bunch of extra photos from the photoshoot!

 

 

 

Baf Time Graduation!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

There's plenty of interesting news today - Maggie has officially become Kitten Academy Faculty, and it's the 2-year anniversary of our live stream!  But we will post more about those later; we don't want to take away from the Baf Time kids' graduation!

As you know, Pumice, Wash, Tubby, and Ducky are getting picked up by their adopters this weekend.  Saying goodbye at graduation is especially difficult when we have a class that enrolled at birth at the Academy. However, we know they are going to great homes and that they will keep in touch with us! Look for their class to be added to the Alumni section in the near future. Pickup times for this weekend are listed below:

  • Ducky: 3 PM Saturday
  • Tubby: 4 PM or later, Saturday
  • Pumice + Wash: 1 PM Sunday

Faucet and Bubbles will be staying on a couple extra weeks while we wait for them to get large enough for their spays. They will most likely be graduating in the first week of May. 

We expect that the Frolic's Furballs will move up to the main classroom late this weekend or early next week! 

And... here are the official portraits of the graduates: 

Faucet

Tubby

Wash

Bubbles

Ducky

Pumice

As usual, we've got a lot of fun bonus photos from the graduation photoshoot!

Introducing Frolic's Furballs!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

As you probably know, On Angels' Wings brought us a new momcat and her five kittens to fill up our empty annex!  All we really know about them is that they're about two weeks old, and came to us from animal control in southern Illinois.  

They've been passing around a little eye infection - nothing too serious. We're treating that with Ofloxacin - an antibiotic eyedrop we've used many times in the past.  Additionally, the mom cat Frolic has a very mild case of "pillow foot" (Plasma Cell Pododermatitis) and possibly some related allergies or hypersensitivity.  She's not in any discomfort, so with the vet's recommendation, we're waiting until the kittens are able to be weaned before we start treating those.

It's never too early to apply to adopt - and also remember that Tubby from the Baf Time Kittens still needs an adopter, too!

Because these kittens look so much alike, we're going to do this a little differently than we usually do.  Instead of posting one photo of each then a big gallery, we're posting individual galleries below.  

Revel - Female

Gallivant - Male

Roughhouse - Male

Tumble - Female

Prance - Female

Frolic - Momcat

Baf Time Kittens Updates!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

There's not much news to share - the Baf kittens are all healthy and hearty.  They might just be the most advanced class we've ever had, setting records to walking, leaving the box, and eating!  They have yet to use the litter box, though.  

This post is mostly to share a huge number of photos that we've taken over the last four weeks since the kittens were born (happy 4-week birthdays)!

Since we're writing, though, we'll cover a few quick notes.

Firstly, Mr. A. will be out of town this weekend, so DJ will be managing the kittens and stream all by herself!  Mr. A. is going to Dallas/Fort Worth area for a reciprocal visit with Dr. Bru, and also for a tiny DFW local Kitten Academy fan meet-up!  Of course, the big Kitten Academy Convention (2nd annual!) will be in July.  If you're interested in attending that, all the details are accessible via our Discord chat for Patreons

Since the Baf kittens have become more active, it's been challenging to figure out where to aim the cameras for the best coverage.  We're working on it!  Also, we know that the sound and video sometimes goes out of sync.  We're working on that, too!

If you have trouble telling Faucet from Tubby (we all do!) click here for a quick visual guide.  They're still not quite big enough even for kitten-sized collars, but soon we'll have collars on to help you tell them apart on the stream (tip: Tubby is the one who sleeps all the time).

All right -- here's your photos!  I'm putting these in separate galleries for each photoshoot because otherwise, Squarespace, our site provider, really messes up their ordering.  We've sure come a long way in four weeks!!

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Introducing the Baf Time Kittens!

Howdy, Kitten Academicians!

Last night, Pumice gave birth to five healthy kittens!  This is just a quick post to introduce them.  Let us apologize up-front for the quality of the photos - we'll get better ones soon.  The archive of the birth will also be available on YouTube soon!

Wash - Male

Ducky - Male

Bubbles - Female

Faucet - Female

Tubby - Male

Thanks to "InkaTheKitten" on our Discord Chat for Patreon Subscribers for pointing out that our photo of Bubbles was actually a second photo of Ducky.  Fixed!

Just a couple bonus photos today - more will come soon!

Mewnits Graduation!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Welcome Pumice!

The Scientific Mewnits had their Graduation ceremonies on Tuesday, and already all have adopters!  That was quick!  You can expect to see Newt and Dalton leaving for their home together tomorrow, Saturday the 3rd, around 12:30 KATZ.  Torr and Kelvin are also going home together, but not until the 10th - time yet to be determined!

We've got some great graduation photos, but first some other news - 

We haven't officially announced this in a blogpost, so let us welcome Pumice, our new momcat.  On Angels' Wings finally found us one that's pregnant for sure - she's already giving milk and we can feel the kittens kicking, plus last night DJ showed me how to hear tiny kitten heartbeats.  She's due to deliver literally any day now!

Quiche Lorraine was adopted yesterday!  Her new owners don't have much of a social media presence, but they're wonderful people and we're going to try to get them to share some updates with us.  

And of course, a reminder that Magnolia is still available for adoption!  It's also never too early to apply for Pumice, or her kittens - if you get an application in now, you can get approved in advance.  

Here's the Mewnits!

Torr

Kelvin

Dalton

Newton

As usual, here's all the photos from the photoshoot - and some extras!