Video Catch Up!

Up, animal video time. Mostly cats, but, you know... I really should try to make videos about other things.

Lelu and the Bag of Catnip


Lelu is a (lazy) Gamer


I Caught a Deer ...


Mystic Enjoying the Back Deck


Mystic Drinks in Slomo


Slow Motion Humming Bird


Mommy CC


Lelu and the Ribbon


Patch and Tiny

Daily 5x5 #24 - Nice Day

March 28, 2012




Clip 1 - Tks sleeping on my bed
Clip 2 - Mystic getting some love
Clip 3 - Sky and sun though my car window
Clip 4 - Sky over the house
Clip 5 - Pathway

Daily 5x5 #13/14/15

Saturday


Another Saturday cat video - Pretty Girl Lelu

Clip 1 - Rolling on her back
Clip 2 - Looking serious by the window
Clip 3 - Just walking around
Clip 4 - On the couch
Clip 5 - Enjoying a scratch

Sunday


The only thing I shot on Sunday - Friendly

Clip 1 - Showing me some love
Clip 2 - Sniffing the camera
Clip 3 - Checking my leg
Clip 4 - Rub on the head
Clip 5 - Enjoying a scratch

Monday


Clip 1 - He-She grooming in the sun
Clip 2 - Doing dishes
Clip 3 - First fly of the season
Clip 4 - Windless Flag
Clip 5 - Plane to somewhere

Daily 5x5 #1 - My Birthday

For awhile now I've been contemplating starting a new daily project. I considered starting the daily photos again; using Instagram this time as apposed to Daily Booth, as Daily Booth's failure to reliably work with my phone was a major part of my stopping the project. Instead I've decided to do a daily video project called a 5x5.

I discovered the "5x5" one day while I was going through the Vimeo Video School. It's a very simple video, just 5 clips, each 5 seconds long.

I'm sure my 25 second videos will get repetitive, like my daily photos - lots of clouds, lots of cats. But, it's a little bit of creativity to fit into each day.

And here is my first. Shot today, my birthday:



First off, sorry about my creeper breathing.

Clip 1 - The fresh snow that arrived over night, as seen from an upstairs window.
Clip 2 - Kitty Tks
Clip 3 - Tea and birthday cake
Clip 4 - Kitty Mystic sleeping
Clip 5 - Birthday candle

Lost then Found

The other day I was going through a folder on my computer that contains the images from a camera I had years ago. I had forgotten that I had shot some video with it. It's very low quality video, but still they were cute shots of the cats that I would like to keep. So, I have made each one into it's own little (very low quality) scrapbook type video:


Mystic Loves the Outside - September 25, 2004



He-She Wants a Treat (people food) - October 3, 2004



Sweet Little Dusty - June 5, 2005



Friendly is a Pretty Boy - July 30, 2005



Friendly Loves to Play with String - August 14, 2005



Mystic & Friendly Dislike Each Other - August 14, 2005



He-She is Crazy for the Catnip Toys - November 10, 2007

iKitties - Greydon, TC, Butter, Loucee

I made this video for the Hants County SPCA showing Little C's babies (the Weasley's Cousins) playing with my iPad.



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After the "Weasley" kitties were lovingly in the hands of the local branch of the SPCA, we thought there wouldn't be any more little kitties to worry about.

Tiny and Patch were spayed via a local TN/SR program. Tiny's two surviving kittens were in the hands of a local vet who raises abandoned kittens (Tiny would have nothing to do with them) and who is adamant about the need to have pets fixed. Patch's babies (our Weasleys) had been fixed while in our care before going to their foster home to be put up for adoption. The last one left to do (and the hardest to catch) was Little C, who was signed up for the next TN/SR day - just a few days away. We felt a sense of accomplishment, and were settling into the feeling of "we're done".

We were oh so wrong.

Just days before her appointment Little C showed up with her little brood. That first night we thought there were only 3, but later we learned there were four. We prayed that they were boys (easier and cheaper to fix), then thought they were all girls, then were surprised very late in the game to learn one actually was a boy.

So, that first night in late August we were stunned. We spent everyday getting close to them. Feeding them under their own "home tree", setting a video camera up to watch them while they spent time under the tree. By the end of September I was able to pick up the one we called "Loucee" (named for her bright orange fur that reminded us of the famous red head Lucille Ball, whose birthday is in August, the same month we discovered the new little fur babies. Also spelled the way Desi would call to Lucy when he would announce his arrival home).

We had one, now we had to get the rest. We kept trying to get the others the same way I caught Loucee, but they were too timid. We resorted to a live trap. I really doubted we would be able to catch them with the live trap. They would walk around the outside, but never go in. During this time I did catch 6-10 cats, both Tiny and Patch, and a whole lot of neighbor's cats - all of who stayed clear of the back yard for quite some time afterward.

Finally I got lucky and caught Greydon (He's a beautiful grey boy. The name just fits him). Unfortunately the trap didn't close completely and when I picked it up and stated carrying it he was able to get out.

The next day, I tried again and caught Butter (The colour of browned butter. Plus, she just makes your heart just melt). That night she did a lot of dainty and quite hissing eveytime I tried to get close to her. That night, both Greydon and TC climbed to the top of the roof of our two story garage. It was like they were looking for her. The next day I got lucky again and caught TC (Stands for Tiny C. Named after her mom Little C. Who in turn was named after her mom CC - they all look so similar)

That left pour Greydon alone. Unfortunately I wasn't able to try and catch him the next day as we had severe rain but the day after (Halloween) was the day, and finally we had all four.

By this time Loucee was already very comfortable with us and very happy with her surrogate mommy Tks (our teeny tiny girl who had helped raise the Weasley kitties). We gave the other three time to get used to being inside and then reintroduced Loucee to them along with Tks, whom after a very short time they all accepted as a surrogate mommy.

It's been a great few months with them. They loved to steal all of the cat toys, taking them to their room (so we call these guys the Thieves).

Last week all four were fixed and Greydon, Loucee and Butter all went to their foster homes. TC is still with us temporarily while we wait for their to be a spot in a foster home for her. Just like giving up the Weasley's it's been rough giving these guys up. If I could keep them all, I would.

Once I catch up on the Weasley Kitties videos I will be making more of the Thieve Kitties.

Kitty Catch Up

Still slowly working my way through my videos of our ``Weasley`` kitties:

Kitten Brothers Play Fight



Thirty-One Days Old



Six Weeks Old

Christmas Music Advent Calendar - Day 22

Ahhh...

Thirty Days

I'm way behind on my the "Weasley" Kitty Videos. This is day thirty from way back in June.

They Are Gone.

Our babies; our four little gingers; our Weasleys; Freddy, Georgy, Ronnie and Ginnie are gone.

We knew from the beginning that we couldn't keep them, we had too many cats already. All because people treat cats like throw away, disposable animals, we end up with so many wandering around the village. A lot of them making their way to our back yard. We do our best but we can't take everyone in. And these four, being kittens have a chance at getting adopted.

Still it's painful. I love them so much.

It's been just over a week, but I still find myself tearing up when I think of them. Our Thunder. That's what we started calling them because of the sounds the made running from one end of the bathroom to the other.

We helped raise them for almost eleven weeks. We watched them learn to walk and climb, to use the litter pot and eat solid food. We were the ones who took them to the vet to get fixed and were the ones who worried about them while they healed from their surgeries.

For the last week they've been in the care of a Hants County NSSPCA foster home. This is where they will be while they wait to find their "furever" homes.

I can't stop worrying about how they are doing, or the kind of home they will get. They will always be a part of me. I know I will always think of them.

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I'm still very behind on the videos I'm making about them. I find it quite hard right now to watch all the video clips of taken of them over the weeks.

The latest, Twenty-eight Days Old is up:



I've been finding it hard for a while now to edit these videos down to just a couple of minutes. I'm sure now that the kitties are gone I'm going to find it even more difficult to edit down the video. So, as each one is edited, they will probably get progressively longer. Beside, they are more meant for us as memories of the babies than they are for others.

Feeding Time – Daily iPhone Photograph #146

They love it when it's feeding time.

...and growing

Twenty Days Old



Twenty-four Days Old

The Kittens Keep Growing

Fifteen Days Old



Seventeen Days Old



Nineteen Days Old

Fourteen Days Old

Fourteen days old on June 11, 2011.

Little Cee & Tiny

Little Cee and Tiny sharing a bowl of milk.

Thirteen Days Old

Video shot June 10, 2011.

The Three Sisters Playing

Video shot in April of the three feral sisters - Patch, Tiny, and Little Cee - playing in the back yard.

Georgy – Daily iPhone Photograph #111

I'm a bit behind on the videos of Patch's little kitties. I'm making "Thirteen Days Old" now, and well they are actually four and a half weeks along already.

But these... they were taken tonight. I made Georgy the model tonight and spent time trying to get a good pic of him, while the others were just quick shots. The others will be models on other nights.

Georgy

Ginnie

Freddy

Ronnie

Eleven Days Old

Video shot on June 8th, when the kittens where eleven days old.

Mommy and her Nine Day Old Kittens

Mommy (Patch) taking care of her kittens.