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Click through for the unfortunately sad update on Dover:
We hope that it’s a long time before we bring you any more bad news! Here’s all the photos from the most recent camera card in hopes it’ll give some comfort:
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DJ’s Cheat Sheet - Names by Marking Location
Port’s eight little kittens arrived without much fanfare a week and a half ago, on March 14th. The delivery was swift and professional; she’s surely done this before! Defying the odds, all eight are male orange tabbies with varying amounts of white, which makes them extremely difficult to tell apart at a glance.
We have used food coloring pens in the past, but they get cleaned off far too easily and quickly, so we tried shaving a spot on each kitten so we could tell them apart, and while it worked, it looked very odd. Now we’re marking each one with a dot of food coloring gel, which seems to work well enough. Each kitten has their dot in a different place, so you can tell them apart that way. This will continue until they are big enough to get collars - usually around 4-5 weeks.
Because they are so difficult to tell apart, we’ll post each one’s photos individually for future reference. The white backgrounds are from the 16th and the purple backgrounds are from the 24th.
Here’s some miscellaneous extra photos!
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Our latest update on Smokey isn’t great news. You can click the button below for that:
To hopefully give a little cheer, here’s a short set of candid photos of the Bready Bunch and the Port Oranges, who we’ll introduce in more depth in the next blog post.
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Myth, Rumor, and Macadamia Nut are all scheduled to be picked up by their adopters this weekend, on Saturday the 6th. We’ll miss them! There’s photos of all three in the last gallery on this post, so keep scrolling!
But first… here’s new photos of the Bready Bunch looking sharp in their new collars!
And here’s a whole bunch of photos of Myth, Rumor, Macadamia Nut, and the Faculty!
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Here’s updated photos of the Bready Bunch! We know they are ridiculously difficult to tell apart but it won’t be too much longer until we can put collars on them to help make it easier.
Adoption Updates: Champagne went home today, Saturday the 13th. Truffle, Caviar, and Macadamia Nut are currently all scheduled to go home on the 20th - although Mac may be delayed if he doesn’t get over his URI. Saffron’s pick-up date is still being scheduled.
We’re still looking for an adopter for Myth, but we think DAWS may have found an adopter for Rumor. More on that later - they both still are at least a few weeks from being ready to go home (so there’s still time to get in an app for Myth)!
Millet is doing just great! He does have a ribcage that is malformed - whether you’d call it “Flat-Chested Kitten Syndrome” or “Pectus Excavatum” (which we’re surprised to learn isn’t the spell Harry Potter uses to demold a gelatin). These are similar conditions where the ribcage is flatter than usual. The good news is that after three weeks — and he’ll be four weeks tomorrow — kittens are usually “in the clear” and we expect him to be just fine. With the supplemental feedings we’ve been giving him, he’s gaining weight better than his brothers, even. There’s a chance that the best course for him may involve some type of surgical correction in the coming months, and we’re working closely with Dr. Katz to make that determination. We’ll be sure to keep you informed!
Flour didn’t really turn up for the photoshoot but we’ll make up for that in the next one!
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We promised more photos of Myth and Rumor and well - we tried! If you’d like to know more about applying to adopt either of these fantastic non-moms, check our previous blog post - and there’s more photos there too!
We’re not completely sure when Rumor and Myth will be eligible to go home, but we’d expect it to be in about a month. We’ll be sure to let you know as soon as everything is set!
Don’t miss the bonus photos of some of the faculty and Feasters who stopped by during the photoshoot, at the end of this post!
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We’re sure you’ve heard by now, the Fancy Feasters all have approved adopters and will be eligible to go home soon, but there’s a bit of a URI going around the Academy at the moment that is complicating the schedules. We currently have the boys set for their neuters with Dr. Katz on Wednesday, and if they are able to keep that appointment, then they will be ready to go home as soon as this weekend! Truffle and Saffron will have their sutures out on Friday and also be ready this weekend. We’re hoping the URI is well-resolved by then!
In other very important news, we have Myth and Rumor, the two non-momcats, staying with us until we’re able to get them spayed and adopted. We’ve had to bump their appointments to reschedule the Feaster boys, so we’re not yet sure when they will be ready to go home, but it’s likely to be in about a month.
Myth would rather stay home than visit the Alps.
Myth is an older dilute calico who startles easily, and would like to have her own private quiet place to spend most of her time, and also is crazy for snuggles and vigorous petting. She will purr and roll over for endless belly rubs; it’s not a trap! She can also be quite playful, usually in the quiet hours of the night. She can peacefully co-exist with other cats, but doesn’t want them too close. She doesn’t ask for a lot of attention, but she will reward a patient adopter — someone who can approach her quietly and deliberately — with a lot of love.
Rumor is patient and playful.
Rumor is a very young tabby — still practically a kitten herself. She enjoys chasing and wrestling with other cats, and is very respectful when they ask her to calm down or back off. She has a natural talent for getting along with other cats and kittens. She also loves her people and always wants to be close enough to know where they are and what they’re doing. It’s difficult to imagine an environment that Rumor wouldn’t thrive, though she does need a little extra care when making big changes and new introductions. She didn’t want to be left alone for a minute the first few days that she was here. After settling in she’s been a little more independent.
We’ll be getting more photos and talking about Myth and Rumor more in the near future - meanwhile, you can apply to adopt either of them!
Here’s the last photoshoot we did - just after Myth and Rumor arrived and just before the URI broke out. Rumor was so passive during the photoshoot that we couldn’t resist having her try on some hats! Myth wasn’t interested in visiting a new room with a bunch of strange stuff so she just got her photos in her own room - it was tricky getting her to pose instead of rolling over for more belly rubs!
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Cheatsheet by MadamAmyLotta on our Discord!
Flour arrived on a transport at DAWS on Saturday the 16th, and didn’t waste any time delivering four healthy kittens on Sunday the 17th. Since then she’s been a wonderfully attentive momcat and has hardly left her kittens alone for a minute.
Because all four kittens are male tabbies — three mackerel tabbies and one classic tabby — we know it can be difficult to tell who is who on the live stream. For now, we can tell them apart in person and that’s good enough to make sure we know who is healthy. When they get old enough for collars in a few weeks, they’ll be easier for you to tell apart on the stream.
As you know, we have two (presumably) not-pregnant “mom” cats currently at the Academy as well, named “Myth” and “Rumor” - we’ll talk more about them soon in our next Mews blog posts!
Here’s some photos, separated out by kitten:
Here’s a selection of group photos and in-situ shots - most of the ones with all three mackerel tabbies are in order, Potato, Corn, Millet. See if you can figure out the rest!
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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!
[Ed: Did we use this title already?]
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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!
