Watching any animal developing is fascinating. Kittens are particularly amazing because of the speed at which they learn. The video attempts to shows samples of each key step of 9 weeks of their life condensed in 9 min. I place myself essentially as a parent here, witnessing their absolute desire and drive for life, their anxieties, hesitations and play. I also see essential survival skills developing, carefully watching an object moving, skils required to catch a mouse or climb a tree. I have played with the sound track a lot as I felt it was also indirectly showing our lives, us humans, as a family; not that fundamentally different to the one of the cats in many ways. As a child, I also grew up with cats and kittens all the time, so to see my children experiencing this is ver dear to me. The music was inspired by a concert held at Edinburgh University on the 6th of June by the Rudsambee company of singers. The songs selected but one are from an American composer named Eric Whitacre- Five Hebrew love songs, Temuna, Kala kalla, Laroz, Ezyze sheleg! And Rakut. There is also another song (the one before last, in which the kitten is behind my computer) called Laulda teile laukule (to sing you a little song)- It is in Vespian language (related to Finnish and Estonian but now spoken only by a few people in Russia). I cannot resist to give you the translation of the Hebrew love songs. 1- Temuna (A picture). A picture is engraved in my heart; Moving between light and darkness A …
1,2,3 cute little kittens jumping on the bed (HD preferred)
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Welcome from Libby, John, Carter and Brownie
Their development is certainly fast but have they mastered the iphone yet?
Iron Brew is great but red lemonade available in Ireland is amazing! Another great drink I had was fizzy(!) iced tea that was on tap in Amsterdam. Cold!! Many countries have great beverages.
The music fits with this piece very nicely, very enjoyable. Kind of relaxing.
Thanks Doug, I have rarely met someone equaling your humour! When we were at that concert, particularly when hearing the second of these songs, Kala Kalla, all I could see were kittens moving from period of intense activity to sleep. Not unlike little children.
That learning is fascinating to me. They have not yet mastered iPhone but I had once convinced myself that I could teach them some form of communication through pocking their head onto pictures. Psychologists have tried this apparently their attention is too short. We can also see in these footages high level of distractibility. And also interestingly, though there is a lot of socialization going on, I have not yet come across behaviours that look like empathy towards each others.
Maybe cat empathy is exhibited very differently to human empathy. Some people think cats are cold and selfish and they can appear like this sometimes but they are very empathic. They just show this in a very subtle way.
Empathy between siblings would probably be unlikely when they still compete for attention and food etc. Also, cats in the wild being more solitary than dogs means they have more of an individual mentality.
Good point- I was more thinking about the mum when she went out and left her kitten in- maybe her way to show empathy is actually to model the behaviour her kitten could learn. Also, clearly she responds with extreme attention and tenderness to the call from her kittens and this must be some form of empathy too. It is amazing to see how she responds when she hears her kittens at 1 week old crying on the video, just would rush in from outside and look around everywhere by the computer.
Have they jumped into the tuna salad yet?
Not yet, but I have suggested to my children a few time to stir fry them.
what are their names
The kittens have a new home now, one was called Miso, they are all girls, another one Zen (or something like this) and a third, I actually dont know, but Ill ask, she went to my Spanish friend, so something Spanish no doubt. Cute. We always give kittens to friends, Edinburgh is in a huge shortage crisis of kittens, because people are afraid to have pets who remain fertile. But a kitten can make a child so happy, how could we resist not giving this to someone.
I really like those little kittens, those are really cuties!
The song that comes on with the iPhone – if you have the music file, could you sned it to me? I’d love to have it.
Hi Sightless- Well, I have it on CD and I am not supposed to share this, any way you could get the CD looking for the music in the info I am giving with the video? I like your Nick Drake Song.
Thank you! Nice to see fans of his, it’s seems to be a rarity. I’ll give Jamie the good news.
I love, love, love your video! But …. whaddya mean “Goodbye Kittens” ??? Where’d they go?!?
Do you get your cats spayed?
The kittens were about to leave us to find very good homes- We give our kitten to friends of my children, we know the people, we know the kittens will be well looked after and will make other families like our very happy. Most cats are spayed in Edinburgh, so there is a big demand for kittens. We give our cat mum rest with contraceptive instead of permanent infertility.
Hi There! Yes- The following litter of 5 kittens, all made it very fast through the cat flap. But I don’t think this is necessarily a sign of higher intelligence. The litter from this current video clearly had the right idea, but it just did not happen. I think there is an element of chance here, just the right push, that is learned fast if successful has very different outcomes. In natural environment, these different outcomes could amount to life or death. Not just intelligence plays a part.
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