Fancy Feasters and Faculty Fhotos!

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

A new momcat arrived yesterday, January 12th, and she’s a beautiful dilute calico. She’s a bit skittish but is already starting to enjoy her new situation! She simply cannot get enough petting and snuggling, and purrs with everything she’s got! We’re not convinced she’s pregnant, but we won’t really be able to say for certain until we take her to Dr. Katz for a full exam and x-ray on the 20th.

The second momcat we expected had her kittens before she could be transported, and has been diverted to a local foster as a result. However, DAWS has told us to they have another pregnant momcat they’d like us to foster arriving Saturday at noon! Unless that changes, it means we’ll still have Saturday mailbag, but with a hard cutoff around 11am. We’ve prepared the second annex for her arrival. She’s also scheduled to visit Dr. Katz on the 20th.

The Fancy Feasters are doing wonderfully and thanks to their extremely relaxed momcat, Truffle, they get full freedom to roam the house pretty much all day every day. They all have approved and confirmed and enthusiastic adopters, and all of the adopters are on our Discord now! It remains for the adoption dates to be decided and we don’t yet know which of the adopters will have social media available for updates, but we’ll be sure to let you know when it’s all set. The Fancy Feasters are scheduled for their “graduation” surgeries with Dr. Katz on February 1st, so Mac and Champ will be eligible to go home shortly thereafter and Truffle and Caviar (being adopted together) and Saffron will be eligible to go home after the 11th of February.

Don’t forget to check out the #KAWinterBreak2021 art prompts — it’s not too late to participate if you like!

Here’s some candid photos of the Feasters and the Faculty around the Academy!

Wherefore Art Thou?!

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[Ed: Did we use this title already?]

Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We’re a week late posting the art challenge for January but there’s no reason you can’t start now! Syl has provided a list of prompts for each day and a hashtag on Twitter so you can tweet them out using the #KAWinterBreak2021 hashtag and we can all enjoy! Feel free to use whatever media suits your fancy, whether it’s pencil or paint or clay or sound! Or anything else!

Today we’re editing a bunch of candid photos of the Fancy Feasters taken over the last weeks, and hopeful to find time for a new winter photoshoot. Both of which will appear in a blog post here…in due time! Plus, DAWS may have news of new momcat(s) soon, so stay tuned!

Here’s some spectacular self-selected art in random order from the Harvest Festival, and you can view all the entries on Twitter by following the #KAHarvest2020 hashtag! Thank you so much to everyone who art-icipated! We love all of it!

Tilly's Stable Graduation!

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Greetings Kitten Academicians!

It’s amazing how the time has flown by for this wonderful class of tiny kittens - no longer quite so tiny! They’ve been a real joy these last three months. Here’s what we know about the adoption dates:

  • Shire - Adopted 12/12

  • Brumby - 12/19

  • Clyde and Morgan together on 12/19 around noon.

  • QP - 12/26

  • Tilbury - Pick up in January!

We’re really going to miss having these kids around the house! Thanks to their extremely accommodating mom, Tilbury, they have been out and around the Academy more than any previous class and it’s been wonderful!

Quarter Pony

Clydesdale and Morgan

Brumby

Shire

Tilbury

As usual, here’s all the rest of the photos from the photoshoot and from around the Academy!

Fancy Feasters Updated Photos!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Truffle’s Fancy Feasters are growing up fast! They’re just over five weeks old now, and will be going for their first vet visit on the 16th, when they reach an even six weeks. They all seem super healthy and have learned to eat solid food! And although they’re not yet entirely learned in the ways of the litter box, we’re sure it won’t be long.

Here’s an updated cheat-sheet and then a whole bunch of photos beginning back at two weeks old when their eyes had just opened! We’ll be posting the graduation photos of Tilly’s class next week.

Saffron - Female

Macadamia Nut - Male - Macnut

Champagne - Male - Champ

Caviar - Male

Truffle - Momcat

Welcome to the Fancy Feasters!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Here’s DJ’s Cheatsheet!

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!

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.

Faculty Shirts!

Faculty Shirts!

Smokey Mug! (Smuggy?)

Smokey Mug! (Smuggy?)

Maggie Mug! (Muggie?)

Maggie Mug! (Muggie?)

Loganberry Mug!

Loganberry Mug!

Eddie Mug!

Eddie Mug!

Custard Mug! (Cupstard?)

Custard Mug! (Cupstard?)

Ari Mug!

Ari Mug!

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.]

Happy Meowloween!

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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:

Shire - Male

Quarter Pony - Female - AKA QP, AKA Quartz

Clydesdale - Male - AKA Clyde

Brumby - Female

Morgan - Female

Tilbury - Momcat - AKA Tilby, AKA Tilly

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

Tilbury's Stable Photos Catch-Up!

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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!

Harvest Art Festival!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Once again we’re a little late in making a blog post to announce the October art challenge! The mysterious Banksyl has created a list of art prompts and you are invited to participate in any fashion that fits your fancy, whether you sketch, paint, sculpt, knit, whistle… whatever you are inspired to do by the prompts, just tweet them at us with the #KAHarvest2020 hashtag!

In a change from previous months, the art we’re posting from the last art prompt, the July Beach Party, has been self-selected for publication by the artists themselves! They’re all great, so here we go:


Amazing work by everyone who participated! Thank you all so much and have fun this month!

Welcome to Tilbury's Stable!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

The original cheatsheet by Maharet_S on the Discord for Patreons!

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”

Shire - Male

Brumby - Female

Morgan - Female

Morgan - Female

Clydesdale - Male - AKA “Clyde”

Tilbury - Momcat

Hipster Weebops Graduation!

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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!

Vinyl

Artie

Vintage and Ironic

Indie and Retro

Bespoke and Bebop

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