Happy Meowloween!

October 30, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Six weeks old and Tilbury’s Stable are doing great! They are super healthy, super cute, super advanced little kittens.

We expect a new calico momcat to arrive tomorrow, Saturday the 31st (Halloween) so there will not be mailbag, but we’ll do a close-up if and when the new mom arrives to introduce her!

Meanwhile, applications for Tilly and her kittens are open and you can apply here. Applications are reviewed by DAWS. Remember, it’s not a race; DAWS will check all the applications and try their hardest to place the kittens the way they think is best for the kittens — if you aren’t selected to adopt the kittens or momcat you applied for, please keep your heart open for a future kitten!

Here’s a new cheat-sheet of names to replace the old one:

Quarter Pony - Female - AKA QP, AKA Quartz

Here’s the rest of the photoshoot, and a few bonus photos of the faculty!

Tilbury's Stable Photos Catch-Up!

October 20, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Tilbury’s kittens will be six weeks old this Saurday and going for their first vaccines on the 28th. Meanwhile, we expect a new mom cat to be arriving via DAWS sometime around the 24th!

[EDIT: Hey don’t forget, DAWS big ball is online, free, Saturday the 24th - but you need to sign up - for free - here: https://daws.org/event/daws-annual-ball-2020/ ]

Here’s a bunch of photos all from 2020-10-09 and earlier that we’ve only just finished editing. Hopefully we can find time now to take some new ones!

Welcome to Tilbury's Stable!

September 30, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Introduction, Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

The original cheatsheet by Maharet_S on the Discord for Patreons!

We’re a bit late in posting about it, but Tilbury arrived via DAWS on September 6th, from Morgantown, West Virginia. We don’t know exactly how old she might be, but we suspect she’s at least four years old. We think she’s probably had a number of litters of kittens before coming to the Academy.

Early in the morning of September 12th, she delivered 5 beautiful, healthy, monochromatic kittens. The photos in the big gallery below are from the 13th, the 22nd, and the 29th. We feel like you can probably guess which are which!

So far, she’s been a model momcat, taking care of her kittens’ every need with practically no assistance from us - we didn’t even need to help in the delivery (but we did anyhow)! That’s rare. She also has been visiting the faculty and exploring the house every morning, which is unprecedented among momcats with newborn kittens.

Here’s our “introduction” photos!

Quarter Pony - Female - AKA “Qupe” “Quartz”

Hipster Weebops Graduation!

September 19, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Graduation, Photos, Adoption

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

It seems like just yesterday that Bebop spent twelve whole hours bringing her seven kittens into the world, but they’re now three months old, and have completed their studies at the Academy! We have the adoptions all scheduled, except for Artie, who’s spending a little extra time here to have his kidneys checked out on Tuesday.

Indie and Retro - September 20
Ironic and Vintage - September 20
Vinyl - September 25
Bespoke and Bebop - September 26
Artie - ????

Somehow Tilbury’s kittens have reached a week old and we still haven’t published their first photoshoot - so we’ll make that up to all of you with additional photos in due time! Meanwhile…

Here’s our Hipster graduation photos in the classic style!

Here’s the rest of the photos from the graduation shoot!

Momcat Shuffle, Photos, and Acro!

August 30, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos, Sads

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

The update on Acro isn’t as pleasing as we’d have hoped. You can click the following button for that:

Warning: Sads

In an effort to bring something a little happier to this post, here’s some recent mom/not-momcat and faculty photos!

First off, we had “May B.” the not-mom, aka “Caton Rouge Shortbread.” She turned out to not be pregnant at all, but is a sweetheart who appreciates a good lap and a belly rub. She’s very anxious about new people, new places, and new cats, but given time to adjust, very loving. She’s already got an approved adopter, and is staying at the Academy, in the Office, until after her graduation surgery. She’ll be picked up by k80cat on September 16th!

We’re sure her adopters know how to manage cats but it’s a good opportunity to give advice to anyone who’s adopting! Especially with adult cats, but especially with ones that are nervous about changes, it would be a good idea for her adopters to prepare a room with a litterbox, food and water, and no hiding places that they can’t easily retrieve her from. For instance, a bed she can hide under is a bad idea since it can be difficult to coax her out. Even a large closet or bathroom is a fine choice if it’s what you’ve got. After she’s had a day to get used to it as “her space” then you can slowly invite her out to explore the rest of the house, returning to her space when she’s overwhelmed or when you won’t be around to keep an eye out. In due time you and she will become comfortable allowing her free access to the house.

When it comes to meeting new cats, you need to use your best judgement as to what makes a good introduction. Usually letting the cats see each other a few times from a distance, then slowly bringing them together over repeated play or treat sessions is a good idea. May B. was responding well to treat sessions with the faculty, though there’s still more to do. One of the important considerations is to separate the cats and reset before they have a chance to get into a scuffle! At the first sign of hissing or growling it’s usually a good time to call it off and try again later.

Then we have “Tessa,” aka “Void.” Her delivery didn’t result in any kittens, but she proved herself to be a wonderfully sweet cat, nearly a kitten herself - almost certainly less than a year old. She’s gone to DAWS to wait for an adopter. You will be able to find her on their site - we’ll update this post with a link when it’s available!

We expected another mom/not-mom this weekend, but she delivered her kittens before she could come to the Academy, and now it will be a couple weeks before she’s eligible for transport. It’s likely we’ll have a new mom cat this Saturday, the 5th.

Finally, a reminder that this weekend, we’ll also be featured at Crunchyroll’s V-CRX 2020! Perhaps they’ll be treated to a delivery of kittens!?

Here’s a few bonus photos from recent shoots!

Some Very Hipster Photos!

August 25, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We’ll have a blogpost about “May B” and our run of not-exactly-mom cats soon, but this is all about the Hipsters and Bebop!

Very excitingly, the wonderful people at Crunchyroll have made Kitten Academy and Bebop and her kittens the official “Yuzu’s Cat Cafe” at their annual Crunchyroll Expo, September 4-6! We can’t even tell you all what an amazing honor it is and how excited we are to be a small part of such a big deal! It’s really thoughtful of them to want to include a cat rescue and help some cats and kittens, both present and future, find their adopters!

We get a lot of questions about Bessie or “the wobbly kitten” in the group. She does have Cerebellar Hypoplasia, but all that means is that she’ll be adorably clumsy her whole life. Her brother Artie has a less noticeable case of the same thing.

Bebop and the Weebops are scheduled for their spay and neuter “graduation” surgeries on the 10th and 14th of September, and will be eligible to be picked up at the Academy (or at DAWS, as you like) ten days later, when the sutures are removed.

Ironic - Ira - Female

Vinyl - Female

Vintage - Vin -Male

Retro - Female

Bespoke - Bessie - Female

Artisianal - Artie - Male

Indie - Female

Bebop - Momcat

Bebop and The Hipster Weebops

Too Many Weebops Isn't Enough!

July 24, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Turns out we forgot a few photos from an older photoshoot on the 6th! And a couple bonus photos of the Gifts (and Loganberry)! Guess we’ll be sentenced to walk the plank!

Don’t forget to click the “Older” button below the photos to see what we posted a couple days ago!

Bebop's Weebops in Too Many Photos!

July 23, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We’ve finally taken a few minutes to wrap up editing on the last photoshoot! Not much news in the meantime - the Weebops are six weeks old today, but most of these photos were taken last week. You can probably tell they were taken in the Annex, but the Weebops have been in the main room for a few days now.

They’ll have their first vet visit and vaccinations on Monday the 27th!

Here’s all the photos in no particular order - consider it a challenge to decide which kitten is which! We’re likely to add collars to them this upcoming weekend, before their vet visit, so after that things should get simpler.

Gab's Gifts and Faculty Photos!

June 30, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We’ve been building up a big backlog of photos of the Gifts and the Faculty to share, but we didn’t want to put them into a post with the Hipster Weebops. So … here’s what we’ve been hanging on to, including photos from the forgotten photoshoot back at the beginning of the month! Hang on to your modems - this is a big one!!

We’ll come back soon with a graduation photoshoot - this wasn’t even it!

Weebops Updates

June 29, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Photos, Cheatsheet

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Lots of photos of the new Weebops to share! Because it can be tricky for even us to tell them apart, we’ve started this post with a small gallery of each kitten, then at the end, a giant gallery of everything.

No news to share in this mewspost, but we’ll be making a bunch more posts soon!

The photos of the kittens on the mint colored blanket were taken on the June 16th. The ones backlit by the sun were taken on June 22nd. The big gallery are photos from both of those days and a bunch more from June 29th.