Welcome to the Fancy Feasters!

November 06, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Introduction, Cheatsheet, Merch

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

New momcat Truffle was discovered hanging around a garage in rural Georgia and DAWS arranged to have her brought to the Academy [* see below] on Halloween day. We could tell it wouldn’t be long before she delivered her kittens! She was an instant lap snuggler and spent all the time she could curled up on our lap in the beanbag chair.

Sure enough, four healthy kittens were born on the morning of November 4th! Truffle appears to be an experienced mom and is handling all of her kittens’ needs just fine - with an occasional time-out for more lap snuggles!

Here’s the photos from the initial photoshoots after and before the birth, and afterwards we’ll share some info about the new merch on Teespring!

Saffron

Macadamia Nut

Champagne

Caviar

We know that our Teespring storefront can be difficult to navigate if you’re looking for something in particular buried under all the different products on which you can have the KA logo printed! So we wanted to take a moment here to post links to the newest items.

Our friend (and the voice of Smokey) Pauline contacted the amazing artist Kat Giannini to commission artwork of the Kitten Academy Faculty to be raffled at the 2020 KA-Con raffle. But events led to the cancellation of the raffle this year, and instead, Kat has allowed us to sell her fantastic portraits of the faculty on our Teespring store as shirts and coffee mugs! It’s super generous of her to allow, considering she has her own Etsy store where she sells some of her best prints. Also thanks to Jay for refactoring the original art to suit the shirts and mugs! Everyone involved really went out of their way to make this possible and we love the art so much that we’ve already ordered the whole set for the Academy.

The good people at Teespring have mentioned that they may be able to provide a discount code for us this weekend or soon thereafter, so if they do, I’ll update this post with the code here. Meanwhile, here’s a bonus design from Jay based on a T-shirt we sometimes wear around the Academy!

[* From Above:
DAWS generously covered the costs for Planned Pethood GA to rescue Truffle and a Georgia Transport Allies transport to bring Truffle to the Academy. Links here, but be warned that these sites do not follow the Kitten Academy No-Sads policy.]

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.

Bespoke - Bessie - Female

Artisanal - Artie - Male

Indie -Female

Ironic - Ira - Female

Vinyl - Female

Vintage- Vinnie - Male

Retro - Female

Here’s some more.

Welcome Hipster Weebops!

June 18, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Introduction, Cheatsheet

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

It’s been quite a week or two here with Bebop finally delivering seven healthy kittens on Wednesday, June 10th! It was an extended delivery, roughly 12 hours - with a few hairy moments and seven adorable furry ones.

We’ve been hoping to make a post with more, better photos and lots of info but we realize these kittens are just getting cuter every day and growing so quickly the photos are outdated the minute we take them. So here’s what we’ve got!

Because it’s so difficult to tell the kittens apart - especially when we took the first set of photos - we’re breaking this down into a little gallery for each and then a big gallery of everything else.

Bespoke - Female - Bessie

Artisanal - Male - Artie

Indie - Female

Ironic - Female - Ira

Vinyl - Female

Vintage - Male - Vinny

Retro - Female

Bebop - Momcat

And here’s a big bunch of all the photos we’ve taken so far - !

Gifts of Gab Updated Photos!

May 26, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We have photos of Bebop and the Faculty but there were so many photos of the Gifts that we thought they should go in a post on their own! We’ll split this post into three parts.

Part One: Updated Portraits!

Part Two: Unpublished Photos From Three Weeks Ago

Part three: A Whole Bunch of New Photos!

Whistles Graduation!

May 21, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Graduation, Photos, Cheatsheet

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Bell and her Whistles have graduated and gone home at the end of their session, but we’ve finally finished processing the photos from their graduation photoshoot!

In addition to the alumni channel on our Discord server for Patreons, you can find some updates on social media here:

Foggysfloof on Instagram

Belle_of_Brooklyn on Instagram

Soon we’ll have another blog post with updates on the Gifts and our new momcat, Bebop, but today is all about the Whistles, so please enjoy:

Bell's Whistles Update!

April 12, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Photos

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

No news today - just photos! Hard to believe the last photos we published of the Whistles here were from their second week. Now they’re in their second month! It’s time for an updated photoshoot!

Don’t forget we’re looking for a “local” adooter for Brook!

Welcome to Bell's Big Family!

February 08, 2020 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Introduction

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We were planning on doing a big blog post all about Brook, when suddenly we went from no kittens at the Academy to a very full house, seemingly overnight!

First, DAWS got Bell, a very pregnant five-year-old momcat, from Georgia — from the same folks in Georgia who brought us Tailor previously. She arrived at the Academy after a short flight, thanks to a brilliant Delta airlines employee and friend of cats, on January 15th. Then, while we were waiting for her kittens to be delivered, we heard that DAWS would be receiving her mom and siblings from Georgia, too, and when they asked if we wanted them, we said “Yes!”

DJ’s cheat sheet for Bell’s latest! [Ed: They are all girls]

But we later found out, it was Bell’s daughter, Tinker, and Tinker’s kittens/Bell’s grandkittens, Dabble, Monkey, Putter, and Trifle. They arrived after a 13-hour non-stop overnight drive by a dedicated kitten transporter, on February 1st. Tinker is about 3 years old, and her kittens were born on December 12th of 2019.

And they had nearly just arrived when Bell decided to deliver three brand-new kittens, giving Tinker’s kids a set of aunts on Thursday, February 6th! Welcome to “Bell’s Whistles,” Foghorn, Klaxon, and Beep!

For now, we’re keeping the groups separate, because of the big age difference in the kittens. It’s unclear whether we’ll find an opportunity to bring them together before they graduate. But we’re bringing them together virtually in this welcome post since Bell didn’t get her own welcome post yet!

Tinker - Bell’s Daughter and Momcat of Four - 3 years old

As usual, here’s all the photos from the photoshoots! We got some good photos of Brook and the faculty that we’ll share in another post here soon!

Welcome to Brook and Pebble!

October 20, 2019 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

DJ’s cheat sheet is simpler and more complex than usual!

You’ve probably already noticed the latest attendees of the Academy, Brook and Pebble. Our new vet, Dr. Katz, was looking after them for T.A.I.L.S, who had rescued them recently. T.A.I.L.S. were looking for a foster and we fell in love with Brook and her kitten at first sight, so we offered to take them if no foster could be found - and if they’d be willing to sign them over to DAWS, the shelter we normally work with.

Of course, as soon as we offered, the fine folks at T.A.I.L.S. agreed to sign them over and have them put through the Kitten Academy! This is the first time we’ve had a class with just one kitten in it - it’s possible if not likely that we’ll ask DAWS if they want to add in more classmates later in the semester.

We would really love to see Brook and Pebble adopted together, and hope some of you consider applying for them as a pair. It’s never too early to put in an application!

On that note, we’d love to see the Tinypants adopted in groups as well, with their mom, Tailor! They’ve got approximately a month and a half left until graduation now, so it’s a great time to apply!

Finally, Twist is the only one of the Wiggles still at the Academy, and we expect her adopter to pick her up on October 23rd. She’ll be going home all the way to Arizona!

Here’s our first photoshoot with Brook and Pebble, and some bonus faculty photos and Whimsy too!

Welcome to Tailor's Bespoke Tinypants!

September 07, 2019 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Introduction

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Our newest momcat, Tailor, arrived a week ago from near Savannah, Georgia. She delivered two of her kittens on the transport up from GA, and the third and final kitten at the Academy. Her paperwork says she may be half Bengal and despite her diminutive size, her amazing colors seem to bear that out! Thanks to Tabby Tales and DAWS for coordinating her arrival at the Academy!

Before we get on with the official photos, we have the results of the Basepaws poll from our last entry. You have chosen Magnolia to be the faculty member that we test first! We’ll be sure to let you know when we submit the test and the results when it comes back!

All right then - on with the kittens!

And here’s the rest:

Welcome Whimsical Wiggles!

June 22, 2019 by Mr. Academy in Introduction, Cheatsheet

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

There’s one more post in our five-part art series, but not today. Also, don’t forget about KA-Con 3!

Today we give our official welcome to Whimsy and her five wiggly kittens! Whimsy is our first cat brought to us through our new shelter, the Danbury Animal Welfare Society. They are completely awesome and you should check them out!

As you know, Whimsy has been fighting off a bit of an upper respiratory infection. She’s still sneezing a bit but otherwise it seems like she’s feeling much better lately! She’s been eating and drinking on her own again and we’re continuing her treatments of antivirals and antibiotics until she’s completely well.

Her five little kittens seem super healthy so far! Here they are:

It can be difficult to tell Twist and Cartwheel apart on the stream. Twist has a bold white ring on her back right leg, and also a white neck under her chin. Cartwheel doesn’t - so that’s an easy way to tell who is who if those parts are visible. When they get big enough, we may consider collars to help differentiate them.

Here’s all the rest of the photoshoot!