Introducing Till's Petty Cash!

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We’re catching up on our debts of recent class introduction posts, and so here is Till’s Petty Cash! Till came to Kitten Academy on July 15th, from a previous foster in West Virginia. Her kittens were born on the morning of July 26th.

On September 14th, an additional kitten joined the group named Bill. While we stand by our "no-sads" policy, it has always been our intention to inform you of the facts when these, thankfully rare, sad things happen. When you're ready, click the “sads” button for our facts-only update on Bill.

Now onto the Cash at hand!

Till

Ledger

Farthing

Quid

Doubloons

Also, another quick update: Teaspoon is doing well! He will be having surgery in November to correct his heart condition (pulmonic stenosis). Once he is confirmed to be doing well after this procedure, he will be able to undergo his graduation surgery. His pre-surgery appointment is coming up on November 7th.

Lastly, here’s some more deposits of Petty Cash, and Teaspoon with Uncle Loganberry!

The Adorable Adootables!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

It’s been a while, but we’re here with plenty of good news!  The most important stuff is all about the cats and kittens that are ready to be adopted, but before that, let us take one moment.  

We’ve been working on better communication and so we’ve started putting things in place to bring in some extra help.  I only bring it up to mention you may see some really positive changes in the coming days and weeks.  Thank you so much to the wonderful people who have volunteered – and I know many more of you have offered help in the past.  Once we sort things out a little, we’ll be greatly expanding the program.  We’re super excited to share it all with you, but first things first!

The Adootables!

Let’s start right here; forget anything you think you know about these kittens!  Okay, not everything, but the time they’ve spent at KA has seen them all through many changes.  So if you’ve heard us say things in the closeups like “I think so-and-so would love being adopted with so-and-so” keep in mind these things can change pretty quickly – and easily – at this young age.  

All the cats and kittens we’re discussing here are ready to go and as always, you can adopt from anywhere in the continental USA, but you have to pick them up from Monroe, CT, in person.  If you have any trouble with the application, please let us know.

 

The Tabby Sisters

Raindrop, Sprout, and Drizzle are sleek and lovely mackerel tabbies who are very well-adjusted and love play and snuggles with humans as you’d expect from KA graduates.  They came to the Academy as the “April Meowers” and their mom and other siblings have already gone to their adopters.  They have lovely satin fur and play responsibly – you can pet that belly!  All three of them get along just great with the other adootables and any pairings would be great choices.  


Of the three, Raindrop is the most attention-seeking, both from cats and people, and tends to be the quickest to get along with new cats and new situations.  She does have a fixation on fingers and wants to help you type by biting on them, but is very gentle about it.  

Raindrop

Sprout


Sprout is a free spirit who can’t be collared – literally!  Even when the sisters got their sparkly new collars, Sprout rejected hers quickly.  She’s independent and of the three, probably would best tolerate time alone while her human is at work.


Drizzle is the most conservative, and can be quite growly at new kittens initially, but learns to get over it in due time.  Drizzle jealously guards her favorite toys and loves to play fetch – if she brings you a toy, try throwing it, but make sure she’s watching where it goes (or use a toy that makes noise)!  

Drizzle

All three tolerate endless snuggles from their humans and being held like babies, as long as they’re getting petted in the bargain.  

The DLC 

Squall & Wellingtons

When Dr. Katz at Aristokatz discovered a litter of newborn kittens on her doorstep, she offered to let us care for them.  A late addition to the April Meowers, these Darling Little Cats had a bit of a rough start but have grown into the fuzzy marshmallows they are today. Circumstances saw them hand-raised by Mr. A and their attachment to humans is particularly strong as a result.  We’re pleased to announce that Wellingtons and his sister Squall have both (mostly) outgrown their need to lick noses, just as their tongues are becoming extremely abrasive.  They still cannot get enough snuggling and carrying and prefer to sleep near – or on – their human’s heads.  They aren’t particularly fond of other cats – they’re well bonded with all the current Academy residents and other adootables, but very skeptical when meeting new cats and kittens and take a little convincing to come around.  

Wellingtons has become a “typical teenage boy” who is extra rambunctious and lately his waking hours are spent almost entirely focused on roughhousing with his sister, the Tabby twins, or anyone else he can.  He reminds us of teenage Tommy, or Custard, and like them is likely to grow out of it – mostly – in a few years.

Wellingtons

Squall


Squall is much more focused on human affection and there’s never enough.  She and her brother both will need humans with lots of time and affection to give, but Squall more so.  She’s a little quicker to come around to new cats than her brother is, but still a bit wary. 



Serenity Now!

Serenity

Serenity arrived at the Academy a momcat and a kitten herself.  While she didn’t become a momcat in the end, she is still a playful kitten!  Serenity is quite shy but also energetic like a kitten, and loves human affection.  She’s a wonderful bundle of contradictions – a cat.  We find she can be hand shy and especially wary of people standing over her, but if you are on her level and patient, she will reward you with endless affection and play.  It took Mr. A some effort to get her to come around, and the resulting snuggles are all the more enjoyable for it.  He still can have a hard time catching her when it’s time to go to her room – and of course she’s well-known for being an escape artist capable of operating door handles to let herself out again.  As a kitten, she has a lot of energy to work out, and zooms and wrestles with the other adootables all the time. While she did learn to get along with all of the kittens at the Academy after a normal adjustment period, we notice that she really appreciates having her own space, too. We think she will be very happy in a home that has a more normal human-to-cat ratio.

Lastly, here are some bonus photos of everyone mentioned above, some more recent than others.


Raindrop

Sprout

Drizzle

Squall & Wellingtons

Serenity

Summer Camp Check-in with Syl

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Hello Kitten Academicians, it’s Syl!

It’s already June, which happens to be Adopt a Cat month! I hope the year has been treating everyone well. This month the kittens have been attending summer camp for #KASummerCamp2023. To participate, please use the hashtag #KASummerCamp2023 on Twitter or post your work in the new art challenges thread that can be found in the arts-and-crafts channel in the Discord server for Patreon members.

Below you will find submissions from April’s #KAArtsyApril2023 prompt as well as February’s #KASweethearts2023. Thank you so much to everyone that continues to participate and cultivate our creative corner in the community!

If anyone has questions or ideas for future community art events please comment them down below! You can also contact me on Twitter and Discord (@Sylhouettes).

Does summer camp sound familiar? The kittens first attended camp in 2021!

To view all the past art prompts click here.

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Sage’s Handmade

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Kitten Fangirl

Sherbear

Sophie

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Hello and goodbye to The Cutensils!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Sorry it’s been a while, but Syl didn’t want to post two art blogs in a row, so we had to do something. Of course we hope to do this more often, but you probably know how busy we’ve been!

If you’re checking in and haven’t been to the Facebook fan page or had time to watch the (infrequent) close-ups, we should mention that all the Cutensils have adopters and will be going home in the next few weeks… except Teaspoon. His adoption is on hold for now. We’re scheduling surgery with the cardiologist in a month or so, and after that we’ll have a better idea when he’ll be ready to be adopted!

Back with more photos soon… or… in due time?

Sweet Arts with Syl

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Hello Kitten Academicians, it’s Syl!

I hope everyone had a good start to their year! It’s February which means the first art prompt of the year, KA Sweethearts 2023, is here. One of the first things I do when I’m thinking of terms for an art prompt is check the random “holidays” that occur in that month. February of course has Valentine’s Day, but more importantly is February 20th, National Love Your Pet Day. I also learned that February itself is National Cat Health month so maybe give your cat an extra treat or two on the 20th but not too many! To participate this month, please use the hashtag #KASweethearts2023 on Twitter or post your work in the arts-and-crafts channel in the Discord server for Patreon members. 

We wrapped up the art prompts of 2022 with KA Winter Wonderland which showed the kittens playing in snow, building snowmen and decorating for the holidays. Below you will find submissions from that prompt as well as October’s. Thank you to everyone that participated and encouraged each other last year!

If anyone has questions or ideas for future community art events please comment them down below! You can also contact me on Twitter and Discord (@Sylhouettes). 

To view all the past art prompts click here.

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Neela Kangal

Sherbear

Mom 2 Felix

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Scanoodles

Sophie

Neela Kangal

Captain Sokira

Michelle

Sylhouettes

"Welcome" to Cahooligans!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Today, we’re catching up on a few of the photos we’ve taken of Cahoots and her kittens since they arrived at the Academy in Spetember. Technically, they all turned up around the 12th, but we didn’t get to see most of them until the kittens were born on the 24th of September.

Here’s a couple early photos of Cahoots!

Here’s some photos from shortly after the kittens were born:

You might need a cheat-sheet to tell who’s who here! We certainly did. Thanks to “@is.a.Momo” on our Discord server for compiling these:

Next we have a handful of photos from October 21st — we think there’s a missing set of files from shortly after their eyes opened, which we hope to find “in due time” —

Finally, we’d like to share one last set of photos today, taken just a week or two ago, but before we do, we’d like to mention that our friends at DAWS are responsible for today’s blog post in a couple of important ways:

First and foremost, DAWS is the shelter we work with here in Connecticut and they find our momcats and also process applications to adopt the kittens and momcats that we foster.

Secondly, they asked us if we’d mind mentioning that they’re running a huge fundraiser today, on “giving Tuesday.” We believe, of course, that giving to DAWS doesn’t need a special day — it’s always a good idea. But the kind of people who make sure the lights stay on like to make an event of it. If you’d like to participate, today’s your day - just click here to go to the Giving Tuesday donation page. Today’s blog post wouldn’t have happened if they didn’t ask us to give the event a plug!

If you missed the moment or if you would love to support DAWS and the cats and dogs, but feel a bit of dissonance about the idea of a special day for your generosity, you can click here to go to the regular, everyday donation page.

Supporting DAWS or your local shelter is always a good idea, whatever the day!

Finally, here’s some Cahooligans posing for their Christmas photos! (and maybe a bonus or two…)

Arts and Cats at the Pumpkin Patch

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Hello Kitten Academicians, it’s Syl!

We’re now approaching 3 years of Kitten Academy themed art prompts with the first one being “KA Inktopurr” in 2019. At the time, I had no idea what I was getting into but I wanted to stir up the creatives in the community and see more KA related fanart. Now, we have a regularly active, multi-talented art community. I think it was a successful last minute idea! Over the years I’ve adjusted the schedule and right now every other month feels like the best routine that hits major holidays and seasonal changes.

Speaking of holidays and seasonal changes - October’s art prompt is “Pumpkin Patch” themed and includes many things you’d expect to find at one, as well as some additional fall related terms! To participate please tweet your creation using the hashtag #KAPumpkinPatch2022. If you’re not a Twitter user you can post your work in the arts-and-crafts channel in the Kitten Academy Discord for Patreon subscribers. 

In August, we had “KA Back to School” which was hosted exclusively through the Discord server. Our creative community is regularly active, allowing members to compliment and discuss each other's art in a contained manner across various hobbies.

I greatly appreciate and thank everyone that participates in these prompts and brings their own creative aspirations to the community. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for Kitten Academy’s trip to the Pumpkin Patch!

Below you’ll find submissions from earlier this year featuring our Back to School prompt, as well as KA Beach Party 2022! 

If you would like to know more about upcoming prompts and activities, you can find me on Twitter (@Sylhouettes) as well as in the Kitten Academy Discord server.

To view all the past art prompts click here. 

[Quick note from the editor: Aside from Tommy having broken Teespring — we’ll try again soon — we’re up-to-date with the T-Shirt Schedule!]

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Neela Kangal

Sophie

Megalina

Michelle

Neela Kangal

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Graduation for Ocean's Kits!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

We’re still slowly working towards getting everything back up to our usual standards, but this journey lately feels like it may be a thousand miles, and so we start with the few steps we can take and build from there.

So, we bring you our latest photoshoot - plus a few odds and ends from the camera roll, in honor of Ocean, her kits, and Trinket all being ready to find their adopters — or vice-versa. You can apply here on our application!

It’s our impression that Ocean is a supremely dedicated mom and might do well to be adopted with one of her kittens — perhaps Caliper. Trinket loves to play with all three boys and otherwise has a hard time making new friends, so we would really love to see her go home with any of them, perhaps Astrolabe or Spyglass who are both extra rambunctious and love to wrestle with her. In the end, though, it’s always up to the adopter how much they are ready to take on; adopting a kitten is making a 20-year commitment.

If you’ve already applied, don’t panic - we’re sure DAWS will have everything processed in due time!

We’ll be back real soon to post baby photos of the next class, Cahoot’s newborns. Meanwhile, please enjoy…

More Catching Up with Bumble, Crouton and More!

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Greetings, Kitten Academicians!

Crouton’s kids are all grown up now and gradutating in the next couple weeks. We have SO many more photos of them, but in the spirit of “catching up,” we’re just going to publish what is ready to go, and we’ll hope to edit and publish more — in due time!

Before we forget, a couple items of current events:

  • The momcat and kittens we expected to arrive last Saturday, didn’t. But there’s a very good chance we’ll be getting a new pregnant momcat this Saturday the 13th, in the early afternoon.

  • We don’t expect the momcat arrival to impact mailbag, or Morsel and Nugget’s adoption, which will also be Saturday the 13th.

  • Art Coordinator Jay has created a schedule for re-publishing our most popular T-shirt designs over the next few months! Get ‘em while they’re hot!

Crouton and kids have adopters! What we know so far:

  • Crouton will be adopted September 1st

  • Morsel and Nugget will be adopted together August 13th

  • Chunk and Tidbit will be adopted together date TBD

  • Smidgeon and Crumb will be adopted together August 23rd

    All dates subject to change!

So, presenting for the first time on this blog, Crouton and her tiny breads, Chunk, Nugget, Crumb, Tidbit, Smidgeon, and Morsel!

T-Shirt Schedule!

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Greetings, Kitten Merchandicians!

Hey Buddy, You Got any Merch?

Art Coordinator Jay has a plan for re-releasing our most popular merchandise designs from now through the end of the year! Here’s the schedule - links to the products will be updated as they become available.

Also please note, the schedule does not include several new designs we expect to be publishing during this time! You can click here to view the Kitten Academy store, but we recommend just using the individual links below.

STORE RE-RELEASE SCHEDULE

Phase 1: Kitten Academy - Legacy

These are the top 5 products produced for us through the years. A chance to buy (or re-buy!) the favourites from the past few years - Once they're gone, they're gone! These will be released every Monday throughout August, then will stay up until October 1st

August 2022

Phase 2: Old but Gold!

Some of these shirts were released all the way back in 2019! Here is another chance to pick up some of your favourite classics to add to the collection. These will be released on a bi-weekly basis every Monday and Friday. Be quick! These will be going at the end of the month - Get 'em while they're hot!

September 2022

Phase 2.5: But Wait, There's More!

We've still got more to bring from the oldies and the goldies. It's another month of bi-weekly re-releases, so keep an eye out for any favourites. As before, they'll be gone at the end of the month so be quick!

October 2022

  • 3rd - Spooky Faculty

  • 7th - Tomout

  • 10th - DONT PANIC

  • 14th - Snackaru

  • 17th - Buttons

  • 21st - Truffy

  • 24th - Myth

Phase 3: Are We Nearly There Yet?

Nearly! Here are the shirts that didn't get enough attention before the store closure or the attention they deserved first time around. Don't forget to stock up on your Ugly Sweaters for the winter season - Colour not guaranteed and 100% ugly certified! [editor: I own one and you never see me wear it, it’s THAT ugly] Releases are every Friday this month, and will be available 'till the end of the year.

November 2022

  • 4th - River

  • 11th - Bespoke Tinypants

  • 18th - My 4 Moods

  • 25th - KA Ugly Sweater

New Designs!

Get ‘em while they’re hot!