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!

One extra quick note - Chiffon was adopted, which means all the Textiles have homes, except for Velvet! She's still at On Angels' Wings.

Mews You May Have Heard!

February 11, 2017 by Mr. Academy

Flannel wants to talk to you about adopting all her sisters.

Hello, Kitten Academicians! Just a quick post to make sure everyone's aware of a few random bits of news that we've already announced on the live stream!

First an apology: We don't have any new photos to put on this post, because on Monday, Custard knocked our best camera off a desk, and now it's been sent in for repairs. It'll be out for a few weeks. Until then, we'll fall back on the older camera and our cell phones!

The Textiles are all going to be at an event with On Angels' Wings, in Crystal Lake, at the Crystal Lake PetCo today. After the event, they will go to the On Angels' Wings store, where they will stay until Sunday evening - or until adopted, whichever comes first! Any Textiles not adopted by Sunday will return to the Academy, where they will have free run of the house most of the time, rather than returning to the main Academy room.

Acro is preparing to drop his new album soon.

The Fonts will be moved into the main Academy room this weekend, after we give it a thorough cleaning. We're all looking forward to how they will react to being able to see more of the world!

Our test runs of YouTube's new live-streaming-from-a-phone feature were, we feel, highly successful! Thanks to those of you who managed to join us, even though we didn't really plan or announce them. Expect us to do more of that now that it's an option!

We met with a lawyer this week, and have started down the path to turning Kitten Academy into a real 501c3 charity. It'll take a while to get it all done, but we expect it to bring a lot of benefits to you, and to us! More news as that develops.

Charlie taking lessons from Professor Custard.

Finally, this week, from Sunday the 12th - Sunday the 19th (roughly) we will be running a trial of "monetization" on YouTube. That's what they call it when we have ads play on and around our videos. We don't get any control over what ads you see, but we do get a certain amount of control over where and when they might appear. We'll be using the week to figure out those controls, what the options are, and also to get a feel for whether it's worthwhile at all. Some of you may recall we did a brief trial last year and decided against it - we think it's time to try it again and see if anything's changed. If you really can't stand advertisements, we apologize - and keep in mind that YouTube Red eliminates all ads on YouTube!

Thanks for reading, and thanks for watching!