Greetings, Kitten Academicians!
Here’s the adoption schedule as far as we know it - all dates subject to change (except Monkey’s… we’re pretty sure about that one!).
Monkey, March 20
Tinker & Dabble, March 28th
Trifle & Putter, April 1st
Brook, April 14th
We’ve got some really exciting announcements to make, but none of them are ready as of this writing so we’ll have to take more photos and post again soon… Meanwhile, the graduation photoshoot:
Greetings, Kitten Academicians!
Our latest class is just about to head to their homes! We apologize for the lack of a proper graduation photoshoot for the Tinypants. We’re not sure how that got missed! But hopefully the nearly 200 photos of Brook, Pebble, Moss, Fern, Thistle, and Culotte will help make up for that somewhat.
Currently, the adoption plans are for Moss, Fern, and Thistle to be picked up by their adopter - they’re all going together - on Saturday the 18th at about 2pm. There’s a big snowstorm due in the area that might require us to change the timing somewhat.
Culotte and Pebble are scheduled to go home together on Friday 31st! Until then, they will likely be given free run of the house, rather than staying in the main Academy classroom. Pebble’s graduation surgery (final exam?) is scheduled for the 28th.
Raise your hand if you’re beautiful and need an adopter!
Brook, of course, still needs an adopter!
We’ll likely have an unusual number of blog posts here in the next day or three since we have a pending art post to follow-up on the Inktober challenges that Syl set up on Twitter, a new momcat to introduce and a new Januarty challenge ongoing now, too. But we’ll save those for the next posts - for now, just enjoy the photos!
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!
Java was pretty excited to go to his adopter early.
This is our post to share the graduation photos of the Coffee Cats, but there's an abnormal amount of mews we'd like to relate ahead of that. Please feel free to scroll through if you're only here for the photos!
We all knew the Coffee Cats were latecomers who wouldn't be here long - but we certainly didn't expect to fall in love as quickly as we have! As you know, they came here from some other On Angels' Wings fosters, who couldn't keep them until they were fully ready to adopt. They sure did a great job of getting them off to a wonderful start, though - they're fantastic kittens! And there's no doubt in our minds that their mom, Star, is the finest momcat we've had to date.
Secret Agent Momcat Star is always prepared for the next mission!
Even better news; all the Coffee Cats have at least potential adopters! Star and Mocha will be adopted together, on Saturday, and at the moment, we're told that Caramel will be picked up this weekend as well. Latte, Bean, and Frappe will probably return to the Academy for the week, and meet their adopters next weekend.
The plan here at the Academy is to move Angel and her Fish to the main room on Saturday, then whichever Coffee Cats remain will have the Annex as their homebase - but be generally allowed access to the entire Academy grounds. They'll likely only be confined to the Annex at night.
Please note that due to timing issues, this weekend's mailbag segment has been moved to Sunday, at the usual time: 10:00 KATZ. As always, if you can't join us live for the segment, it will be on YouTube for later viewing.
We're told that Arial has an approved adopter, but that Velvet is still at On Angels' Wings, waiting for the right applicant. Momcats at OAW get to roam the thrift store and we're told Velvet is having a good time with her new friends. Nonetheless, if you have any intention of adopting any Kitten Academy momcat or kitten now or ever, put in your application today!
Velvet judges your apparel selection at the OAW store!
We would like to take an extra moment, and thank all of you for making Kitten Academy a huge success!
We're very near our one-year anniversary (depending on how you measure, it's roughly March 20th [Hazel's arrival], April 20th [Start of the Livestream], or May 20th [Creation of kitten.academy]).
Our primary goal has been to help get Academy graduates adopted, and we think we can say that goal is achieved -- and how! Some of the Fish had adopters within days of being born! You are wonderful - but we frankly cannot tell you how wonderful. There are no words - this is unprecedented. We think, not only for us -- but also worldwide. If anyone knows of a more successful adoption of fostered kittens rescued from local shelters, we'd love to know about it (and what they did right!)
Of course, that's not our only goal anymore. We aim to help get ALL kittens everywhere adopted, and also to help with care and feeding of cats and kittens that might not otherwise get the best of everything. With your help we've made amazing progress on those goals as well. We talked about this a little in our most recent Patreon live stream, but we'll be sure to cover it in more depth in a mewspaper article, soon!
Latte
Frappe
Bean
Caramel
Mocha
Star
As usual, here's all the other photos from our recent shoots. Unusually, not all of these are Coffee Cats!
