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Welcome Chili's Beans!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians! 

Our newest family, Chili and her kittens, arrived at Kitten Academy quite unexpectedly on Saturday the 29th of July.  We had gone to On Angels' Wings to drop off some medication, and ended up coming home with six kittens and a momcat!  

Chili is coincidentally from the same shelter in Ohio that Roux came from!  To make things more special, three of her kittens are polydactyl -- that means they have more than the usual number of toes for a cat.  (The usual is four!  [Ed: or five if you count the dewclaw, which we don't!])

We guesstimate that Chili is about a year old, and her kittens are about five or six weeks old.

Chili has already had the opportunity to meet the Faculty - including Elsie - and gets along just great with all of them; so she's likely to be a wonderful choice for someone to adopt who already has cats, or even dogs.

We'd like to bring Chili and her kittens together with Roux and her kittens, but that's a difficult plan to accomplish safely, so we'll be taking our time about it!

If you're looking for news about the new kitten room or the alumni or Roux's Choux, stay tuned - that'll be in a future Mewspaper!

Cayenne Pepper - Female - Pink Collar

Kidney Bean - Female - Red Collar (or none) - Polydactyl

Coriander (Cory) - Male - Blue Collar

Garbonzo Bean - "Gonzo" - Male - Black Collar - Polydactyl

Tomato - Female - Pink Collar

Pinto Bean - Male - Lavender Collar - Polydactyl

Chili - Momcat

Here's the rest of the photos from this photoshoot!

Adoption Schedule and Choux Photos!

Hello, Kitten Academicians!  

Here's our current plan for adoptions:

Kazoo is already practicing his Boston accent.

* Saturday the 22nd: Sometime in the early afternoon, Kazoo will be picked up by his adopters and taken home to Massachusetts!  Around the same time, we expect Cha-Cha's adopter to come pick her up, too, for a road trip to her new home in Wisconsin!

* Sunday the 23rd: Also in the early afternoon, we expect Lute and Foxtrot's adopter to pick them up (they are being adopted together) and bring them to their new home in Texas!

* August 1st (or 2nd): Waltz's adopter will be arriving to pick him up and bring him home to New York!

All of the adopters of this group are participants on our Discord chat for Patreon supporters, so we're well assured that there will be plentiful updates on them as they continue on with their post-graduate work.  When Twitter feeds and YouTube channels are announced, we'll be sure to pass along the links in our new Alumni section in the menu above!

The wonderful people at On Angels' Wings in Crystal Lake, IL are soon going to begin reviewing applications for Roux and her kittens, so if you are interested in adopting one of them, now is a great time to get your application in!

Cha-Cha wants to help with the camera.

As you may know, the Kitten Academy main room will be closed beginning on the 24th, when contractors will be arriving to repair water damage and also replace the floor, wall, and ceiling.  This project will take roughly two weeks.  During that time, we'll focus on Roux and her kittens in the Annex.  

Since Waltz will not be picked up until later, and won't be able to stay in the main room, we'll be allowing him to run around the house with the faculty until his adopter arrives.  Watch for him on the nightly close-up streams!

Here's a GIANT PILE of photos taken over the last several days!  Some of these have been previously published on our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed -- and almost all of them are posted first, as they are edited, on our Discord chat for Patreon supporters.

 

 

Introducing Roux's Pâte à Choux

Last night around 21:00 KATZ, Roux delivered her three healthy kittens!  It was a long delivery, and the archived video is almost five hours long!  You can find that here (as of this writing, it's still uploading and processing - it may take a few hours before it's available.)  

Roux is so very comfortable with her human friends that she actually delivered her kittens on the beanbag chair - in DJ's lap!  Certainly a first for Kitten Academy!  Though the kittens came out backwards and every which-way, in the end, everyone was fine!

Here's the new kids, in order of birth, with their names!

Éclair - "Claire" - Female

Croquembouche - "Cro"/"Croquie" - Male

Beignet - "Ben" - Male

Roux - Momcat

We'll work on getting more photos later, when the kittens are ready to spend a little more time away from Roux.  At a glance, it may seem difficult to tell Cro from Ben, but Cro has thin, light stripes, while Ben has bold, dark swirls.  

If you feel like you need a pronunciation guide for these kittens, you're not alone!  Here is some help:

Roux - roo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOapW_Qt-g

Pâte à choux - pat a shoo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarw3Bqq-Rc

Éclair - eclair - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwcwW1mRc0

Croquembouche - croak-um-boosh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By50TC6b874

Beignet - ben-yay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9lZeBB2MZc

Kitten - ki-ten - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOIYHC8-d-w

Academy - uh-cat-emi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLuJPhdAtQM

Here's the rest of the photos:

Song and Dance Graduation!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Although the kittens in the current class will be graduating at different times, we've decided to include them all in yesterday's graduation photo shoot.  

As you know, Banjo, Mandolin, and Cello will all be adopted and leaving the Academy today!  Lute is still waiting for an officially approved adopter - but once one is approved, he's also ready to go! 

Kazoo, Waltz, Foxtrot, and Cha-Cha are waiting another week or so before they will have their Graduation ceremony (i.e. spay/neuter and such).

If you're interested in any of the kittens, be sure to get your applications in to On Angels' Wings in Crystal Lake, IL.  You can find the application here.

We expect to get regular updates from Banjo, Mandy, and Cello - so today's not a "goodbye" as much as it's a "see you later!"

Mandolin

Lute

Banjo

Cello

Cha-Cha

Kazoo

Foxtrot

Waltz

As usual, here's all the rest of the photos from the shoot.  There were a lot of good ones this time - they're a photogenic bunch!

Welcome New Momcat, Roux!

Hello, Kitten Academicians!

As you doubtless know, today we welcomed a new pregnant momcat to the Academy. Her name is "Roux" and she will be staying in the Annex until after all the Song and Dance kittens have graduated.  She came to us all the way from Ohio! She is super, super friendly and has surely set a record for fastest-to-lap-time.  

Some of you might have been expecting a Calico cat that was also coming from Ohio. However, when they both arrived at On Angels' Wings, they found out the calico wasn't pregnant! So it's fortunate Roux had come along as well! The calico, named "Pumpkin" because of her stunning orange eyes, will be available for adoption at OAW after her spay.

Before we get to all the photos, some news on other topics:

* Arial and Eva have finally been adopted, together! They will be going to their new home tomorrow, Saturday, July 1st!

* Banjo is being picked up from the Academy by his adopter on Sunday, July 2nd! His new family includes other black cats for him to play with!

* Cello and Mandolin are also being picked up by their adopter on Sunday, July 2nd, at the Academy! They will be living together!

Here's our photos of new momcat, Roux:

And here's some bonus photos we caught today of the Song and Dance kittens!

 

 

Fiddle and Song Graduation!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!  

As you no doubt are aware, Fiddle and Song are being adopted together - today!  Their adopter has made the long drive from New York state, and will be dropping by at some indeterminate time this evening to pick them up, and drive them back to their new home!

We'll try to give some warning on Twitter when the moment is near, but don't worry if you miss seeing it live - we'll be sure to archive it!

Even though they're going earlier than the rest of the class, we didn't want to leave them out of graduation photos, so we've done a very tiny photo shoot to capture the moment.  

Just a quick note of unrelated news; DJ has been working on redesigning parts of the website, and we expect those changes to go live this weekend - so look forward to that!

Song and Dance!

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Hello, Kitten Academicians!

As you no doubt are aware, we've had four new arrivals since DJ and Mr. A returned from vacation!  First, let's introduce the new characters:

Kazoo - Male

Foxtrot - Female

Waltz - Male

Cha-Cha - Female

We have plans to integrate the new kittens with Song's "Squints" - Kazoo already is getting along pretty well with them and spends most of his time in the main room with them.  On Thursday the 15th, Song and Fiddle will be going for their spay/neuter.  At that time, we'll bring the dance kittens into the main room with the rest of the Squints.  When Song and Fiddle return, they'll be placed in the Annex while they recover.   After that, we'll "play it by ear."

Although applications are already coming in to On Angels' Wings in Crystal Lake for these kittens, if you find yourself falling in love with one, don't hesitate to put in your own application.  It often happens that an approved applicant falls through and a kitten goes to a second or third applicant instead.  At the very least, by having an application on file, you can be first in line to adopt a future cat or kitten.

Before we leave you with the rest of the photos from the photoshoot, let us say that JimmyD and JennyD did a superlative job of running the Kitten Academy while we were on vacation!  We enjoyed watching them while we were out of the country and JimmyD did a brilliant job with the nightly streams!  We hope we can continue to provide the same level of quality that he did.  And hopefully, he'll return from time to time as a guest host!

Angel's Fish Graduation!

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Hello, Kitten Academicians!

First, an apology.  We realize the close-up live stream the last two nights has had technical problems.  Technically, the YouTube software we use to do it is still in Beta, so we guess some problems might be expected.  Nonetheless, we suspect the real problem may be our phone, so tomorrow, we'll try rebooting it before we start rolling.  

Until then, the important news in tonight's close-up stream was that Haddie has an adopter!  On Angels' Wings contacted one of the backup applicants, and they are wonderful people who are super excited that Haddie will be theirs.  They're also in the Patreon/Discord chat and have promised to keep us up to date with lots of news and photos of Haddie in her new life!

Haddie and the other Fish are all recovering from today's surgeries, but we expect them to be back to normal by tomorrow morning.

Our regular mailbag segment will be held on Saturday at 10am - just as usual.  Then sometime early Saturday afternoon, Hal, Pom, and Trout's adopters will be turning up at Kitten Academy to pick up their kittens.  Because of the late notice, Haddie's adopters won't be arriving to pick her up until the following Saturday, the 27th.  We'll let you know more about whether you'll be able to tune in for that as we get the details worked out.  

But - as you know, we won't be here that weekend; Jimmy and Jenni will be running Kitten Academy in our absence.  

OK, with all the updates out of the way, here's our graduation photoshoot for Angel's Fish!

Halibut

Trout

Haddock

Pomfret

As usual, here's all the rest of the photos!