For more than a week, now, we've been keeping our new kittens separated from our two cats, to get our older housemates used to the smell of new residents and, more importantly, ensure that the kittens don't bring any health issues into the house. And while the older cats seem okay, knowing they aren't the only felines in our home, we're still maintaining a safe distance between them.
Still, we couldn't help but show the kittens another part of the house.
The other day, we brought the kittens, Finn and Cece, into our home office, with the door closed and watching them closely, to make sure that they didn't crawl into crevices in which it would be hard to retrieve them, and to ensure that they didn't chew or become entangled in the cables for our computers, which we still haven't tied up and out of the way.
As they played, I thought it would be fun to set up one of my 360-degree cameras to record the action. I made three very short videos (less than 20 seconds, each), experimenting with freeze-frame and slow-motion time lapses. I was shooting at 50 frames per second, which was really too slow for the freeze-frame effect, but the blur, I think, accentuates the speed at which these quick-footed creatures move.
Here's the freeze-frame video:
For the next two videos, I simply slowed the speed to one-quarter, without using the freeze-frame mode, and I think they look better. The next video shows Cece attacking a toy mouse.
Finally, in the heat of their play, Cece attacked the camera, tackling it to the ground. Because she got so close to the camera and move to the side of it, part of her face disappears from the video footage. (No kitten was hurt in the making of this video.)
These kittens are a lot of fun and I'm going to capture more of their shenanigans in the future.
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