Her name is Bunny, but at age 23, she became a cat. Bunny Orsak answered an ad in 1954 at a TV station that hadn't even gone on the air yet -- channel 13. Bunny Orsak/"Kitirik": "They said, 'We have ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In the early 1950s, when KTRK was assigned the potentially unlucky Channel 13, station owners decided to embrace it! A black cat was named the station mascot, and incorporated ...

For 17 years from 1954 to 1971, tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of Houston children sat glued to their TV sets beguiled by a winsome woman attired in a cat costume: a black leotard ...

I've written about Kitirik, the longtime "mascat" for Channel 13, before. And when I did, I thought I had seen every photo of her we have here at 801 Texas. Here are two 1958 photos of Kitirik, real ...

Dear TV Mailbag: Who played Kitirik and Cadet Don (Don Nelson?) on Channel 13's children's shows in the 1960s?-- T.J.C., Houston Bunny Orsak was Kitirik and Al ...