To change your username/password/settings, simply go to Settings (in your top menu).

Here's a comprehensive list of all of our official Moderators! You can recognize them around the site by the gold "M" star at the bottom left corner of their cadet's window on their profile.

To create a cadet, go to Profile(Edit) in your top menu. You should see an option to change your cadet's name, and 2 windows that let you choose both a cadet and a background. If you buy new backgrounds for your cadet from the Items Shop section, these new backgrounds will show up back in Profile(Edit). You can also find these options in your myDorm section.

To change your cadet's name, simply go to Profile(Edit).

Hairballs are the virtual currency used in the Fuzz Academy. You can use hairballs to buy anything from the Items Shop (located in your top menu), such as clothing for your cadet, new backgrounds, new fur colors for your cadet, and pet jellies. You can also use hairballs to feed your cadet, which is done from your Profile page. (Don't forget to feed your friends' cadets every now and then, too. It's a friendly gesture. And sometimes your friends might forget to take care of their cadet.)

There are several ways you can earn hairballs:

* You earn +1 hairballs when you heart your cadet (from your Profile page).
* You earn +2 hairballs when you heart your friend's cadet (from his/her Profile page).
* You earn +3 hairballs when a friend hearts your cadet.
* You earn +lots hairballs when you play one of the games in the Games section (in your top menu).
* You can also earn hairballs and rare items/bonuses whenever contests are run! You'll see contest announcements around the site when they happen.

To buy items for your cadet, simply go to the Items Shop (in your top menu). There, you'll find a wide assortment of clothing, backgrounds, fur colors, and pet jellies you can buy for your cadet.

To put items onto your cadet, go to the Dorm section (in your top menu). This is your cadet's "closet", where all of the items you've earned are stored. Choose which items you want to put on your cadet, then click "Save"!

Fear not, you didn't just waste a bunch of hairballs. Try refreshing your browser to get the most updated versions of your profile's cadet character. In Internet Explorer, you can go to Tools->Delete Browsing History.

Your cadet earns brain cells every time it plays one of the games in the Games section. The more you play, the smarter your cadet will get!

To become a Fuzz Academy Moderator, you must first submit a 50-page essay detailing all of the reasons why you think you would make a good Moderator. After we review it, we will make you face off against another applicant in a virtual arena to see who wins. (Seriously, our Moderators are chosen on a private, invitation-only basis. There is no application process for Moderators.) To see a list of our current Moderators, go here!

The Fuzz Academy supports the Nature Conservancy's Plant-a-Billion-Trees project, the ASPCA, and also the World Wildlife Fund. Occasionally, we will also have special months where we focus on donating to specific projects. By visiting our site and spreading the word about Fuzz Academy, you are helping us gain notice and attention which in turn lets us spread the word for such noteworthy charities!

The Fuzz Academy site was created by Marie Lu (whose cadet is Boboli), and opened for beta in 2008. The Games section's minigames are created by Lily Yang. We now have a couple of additional artists and a programmer to help with maintaining the site. We're a small team, but we think we've created a brand that really resonates with both kids and parents! The concept for the Fuzz Academy was born on March 17, 2006, when Marie drew a series of polar bear wallpaper art just for kicks on deviantArt.

Absolutely. We do not share any personally identifying information about you to any third party. As a general rule, you should ALWAYS be careful what information you reveal about yourself online. We strongly recommend that you keep details such as your real name, any phone numbers or personal email addresses, mailing addresses, etc off of any websites, especially Fuzz Academy! Play it safe, and protect yourself from strangers.

You can make your profile private by visiting the Profile Privacy page.

Simply go to the Comments section in Profile[Edit]. There, you can select specific comments on your profile that you want to delete, or select all of your profile's comments and delete them.