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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bunny Orsak played Kitirik, the old Channel 13 mascot, from 1954 to 1971. Friends who worked with her, including Eyewitness News anchor Dave Ward, wished her a happy birthday at a party in southwest ...