Angel's Fish Graduation!

May 18, 2017 by Mr. Academy in Graduation

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!

Updates and Song's Quintet Photos!

April 30, 2017 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Graduation, Adoption

Two Mewspaper posts in one day is unprecedented, but it's been a special day!

Yesterday, the adopter of Star and Mocha also adopted Latte, and when he was reintroduced to his mom and brother, they filmed it! What a wonderful outcome after all the potential adoptions for Latte that fell through!

We've brought this up on the stream a number of times, but it bears repeating - DJ's big exams for medical school are coming up fast now, with less than a month left to study. She's therefore had understandably little time to help out with Kitten Academy duties the way she normally does. In turn, Mr. A. has been struggling to keep up with the usual activity. Naturally, we see to the kittens' needs first, so if something has to fall by the wayside, it's likely to be videos and communication on social media and the Discord chat.

If you're one of our Patreon supporters, -- thank you! -- the month ends tonight, and we haven't had our monthly Patreon stream, for the first time since we started. We'll also be sending out the paw print cards a little late -- not the first time that's happened.

After the exams are completed, DJ and Mr. A. will be leaving for two weeks of vacation. During that time, Kitten Academy will be managed by JimmyD and JenniD, whom you may remember as the adopters of Winnie and Gary of the Fonts. The live stream will carry on as usual, under their care. We're super excited to have "guest hosts" and we couldn't ask for better substitutes -- you may not want Mr. A. and DJ to return! The plan is to help them have an easier time of it by only having Song and her kittens at that time - so our next momcat or kittens will not be arriving until after our return in mid-June.

After that, we hope things at the Academy will return to normal! Thanks for bearing with us during this tumultuous time!

Now on to the real point of this Mewspaper entry... photos!

Fish Cheatsheet Number Two!

April 30, 2017 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet

Hello Kitten Watchers!

We realized today that the cheatsheet with kitten names and photos that's on the live stream for the Fish is their baby photos! It was a little out of date, so this post is just to provide a new one.

On Angels' Wings informs us that all of the the Fish are already adopted! They'll go for their Graduation on the 18th of May, and be collected by their adopters the following weekend.

As always, there were a lot of other photos we gathered during the shoot, and they're all here for you to enjoy!

Kitten Academy's One Year Anniversary!

April 20, 2017 by Mr. Academy in Thank You, Anniversary

Hello, Kitten Academicians!

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Kitten Academy Live Stream on YouTube! We started the live stream when our first momcat, Hazel, gave birth to seven beautiful baby kittens. At the time, we could never have anticipated all the wonderful support and encouragement we've received from all of you! We'd be fostering kittens no matter what - but it's all of you who make Kitten Academy special.

We didn't plan a party or anything, but once again, all of you have come to the rescue by sending an amazing number of letters! So our anniversary celebration will be a special mailbag segment, where we read your letters on the live stream. That will be live at 18:00 KATZ. I know that's kind of late for our European fans, but it's a regular working day for us during the day, so that's about the earliest we could find enough spare time in the day. If you can't join us live, we'll be sure to archive the event so you can view it later!

In addition, Sarah Donner (warning: link contains PG-13 language!) -- friend of the Academy, kitten foster, and woman of many artistic talents -- has generously offered to produce a music video for all of us! We thought it might be fun to have a little contest - we've got a whole bunch of Sarah Donner CDs and Kitten Academy swag to give away. So here's what we'll do! If you have an idea for the music video - any ideas at all for lyrics, themes, video to incorporate, big or small, tweet it at us using the hashtag #donneracademy and if it gets used, we'll send you something! Exactly what will depend on how many ideas Sarah ends up using. If we end up with just a few winners, we'll send them a bunch of stuff - if we have a bunch of winners, then we'll spread the stuff out a little. And if we have stuff left over, we'll send it to the ideas we liked the most that didn't end up getting used!

Here's a couple of rules I think we need to mention to help keep it fair. Firstly, if more than one person tweets the same idea, then the credit will go to the first! Secondly, if you don't include the hashtag #donneracademy, it doesn't count. Next, it would be great if we can private message you on Twitter if you win, so we can ask you for a shipping address. If you are a winner, we'll tweet you and you can private message us, but if you take too long to respond, we'll probably have to move on. So enable private messages!

We'll allow entries for the next week - from April 20th through April 27th. After that, Sarah will work her creative magic with no rush - so it'll be done when it's done! It could take a while to get it right.

So, get creative, and tweet at us! Thank you all so much for helping to make our first year a fantastic experience. We hope for many more great years, together with all of you!

Fish Photo Shoot!

March 26, 2017 by Mr. Academy in Cheatsheet, Adoption, Graduation

Hello, Kitten Academicians!

We've got some photos of the Fish and Angel for you -- some from two weeks ago, and some from last night. I bet you can tell which are which!

Before that, though, a moment of news: Java was picked up at On Angels' Wings today by his adopter. As he's left the academy before graduation, he's officially our first "drop out!" A lot of famous people have dropped out and still managed great things, so we hope for the best. But we'd encourage all of you to stay in school nonetheless! Don't be a Java!

His adopter will be returning to OAW with him when he's ready to be fixed, so that will be taken care of. Unfortunately, this adoption was arranged before he came to the Kitten Academy, so it's uncertain whether we'll be able to expect any updates later.

Star's doing very well in her recovery, and we're hopeful that soon we'll feel comfortable letting her spend as much time as she likes with her kittens. We'd also like to offer her the option of roaming the Academy grounds with the Faculty cats, but we're cautious about introducing too many new and exciting situations while she's convalescing.

So, that's all the important news - let's get to the photos!

Introducing Angel's Fish!

February 27, 2017 by DJ

After a lot of patient waiting on the part of Kitten Academy faculty, staff, and fans, Angel gave birth to four beautiful and healthy kittens! The delivery started around 1:45 PM on Sunday, the 26th of February. We expected some complications when her first kitten arrived paw-first but everything went smoothly. The kittens have been quick to nurse and even purr! They are doing exceedingly well and we have great hopes for them in the coming weeks at the Academy.

We apologize for the quality of the following photos - Angel's a little bit of a nervous mom and we don't want to disturb her more than necessary in these first days.

With no further ado, here are the kittens with their names! They are "Angel's Fish" and they are listed below in the order of their birth.

In case you missed the live births or just want to review, here is a link to the archived footage of Angel giving birth. The video description contains clickable links to the time of each birth - the first one is about an hour and twenty minutes into the video.

If you would like to see a quick video of the kittens up close on their first night at the Academy, click here.

As usual, here's a collection of the rest of the photos. WARNING: A few of these from during the birth may be a little much for the squeamish viewer!

Introducing Angel!

February 18, 2017 by Mr. Academy

This is just a quick post to officially introduce Angel, the new pregnant cat you may have already noticed in the Kitten Academy Annex! She's a beautiful Calico, who was brought to us by On Angels' Wings. She's already proven herself to be friendly, and likes to purr, and follow us around the room. She also comes running at the sound of an opening tin of food!

It's difficult to predict exactly when she will deliver her kittens, but DJ thinks it will be in the next day. Mr. A. thinks it'll certainly be sometime this week. We can already feel her little kittens kicking if we put a hand on her belly; they're excited to get out!

Although we haven't been keeping the Annex camera on consistently, the plan is to live stream the birth. We put the camera on the stream whenever we're not watching her directly, so we can hear if anything happens! Sorry if that makes it a little boring sometimes. Things can get a little intense when a cat goes into labor, but if possible, we'll tweet when it begins, take some supplemental recordings, and archive the footage from the live stream, just like we did for Ivy.

Here's some photos we got over the first couple days she's been here!