I Put a Tiny Camera on My Cat for 24 Hours

this video is sponsored by insta360. my cat is up to something i don't know what but i can see it in those beady little eyes of his and i'm gonna find out i've tried gps tracking him but i think he was on to me so then i set up night vision cameras all over my garden and this time i did discover something ralph had a secret best friend we've since moved houseo and ralph's now an indoor cat he's made the switch remarkably well and now has bella to keep him company my girlfriend's cat although calling them friends is maybe a bit of a stretch they certainly keep each other entertained [Music] but none of that changes the fact he's definitely up to something so this time i'm upping the surveillance and attaching a teeny tiny camera to ralph himself this is the insta 360 go 2 and it really is a miracle camera it's minuscule weighing just 26 grams meaning that i can happily attach it to ralph's collar knowing it won't cause him any discomfort the plan is to film him for 24 hours straight and hopefully get a really fascinating insight into a secretive life but you might be wondering if ralph's an indoor cat what exactly am i hoping to capture well a few things ralph spends long periods of time downstairs alone and when i go down he's always stood up and looking suspicious i want to know what mischief he's been up to plus i want to find out what his relationship with bella is really like they run around the house together all night long and we've never been really sure if it's playful or aggressive they definitely act differently when i'm around so i want to see how they behave when they think i'm not watching obviously the camera's battery and storage won't last for 24 hours so i have multiple cameras and i'll be switching them throughout the day to clear their memory and charge them but i think that's enough of an intro it's currently midday so let's start the clock [Music] and my initial thoughts this is mind-blowing obviously i'm a human about five or six times taller than ralph so it was truly amazing to see the world from his perspective he can fit in all the small nooks and crannies i can't and navigates the house in a completely different way and it was so fascinating to watch fascinating and hilarious watching his fluffy little feet run up the stairs watching how he checks the bed is clear before jumping up it all just seems so comical not to mention seeing him eating and especially drinking he takes a sip from the fountain and then his bright pink tongue laps the air for the next few seconds it was just so bizarre to see from his perspective ralph spent a good amount of the day sitting at the back door he's a keen bird watcher and from here has a perfect view of the feeders we get so many birds that we have to refill them daily and ralph's obviously a pretty big fan of them then there were some not so delightful aspects such as seeing him use the litter tray but we can fast forward through that oh and he constantly tried to eat my plants i am aware he does this i mean it's impossible not to be when they're all covered in teeth marks but he knows he's not supposed to don't worry though none of them are poisonous to cats and just listen to this sound isn't it glorious now as well as being cat-sized the go-to is an action camera so i wanted to get ralph playing although he's not the most playful cat in the world i can usually tempt him with some string it was marvellous to see his fluffy paws reaching out in front of him and a perfect demonstration of the camera's incredible inbuilt stabilization it's also got a really cool feature called horizon leveling where no matter how the camera is rotated it will always film the right way up but after playing for only a minute or so ralph got sleepy cats sleep between 16 and 20 hours a day and ralph's definitely on the upper end of that spectrum and with the camera just filming bed and fluff i use the opportunity to edit some of the footage on the phone app you can easily trim footage apply effects cut bits together upload them and more it's a really fantastic tool or there's a desktop app which has some slightly more advanced features and on both since the video actually films in 2688 by 2688 resolution you can choose the aspect ratio after you filmed without losing quality which is amazing if you want to upload horizontally to youtube as well as vertical video platforms i should mention being as remarkably small as it is the go 2 doesn't have any ports or an sd card rather it comes with this funky little charging case which has them all instead it also doubles as a mini tripod which is pretty cool so far other than eating my plants ralph hadn't really got up to any mischief and i was still no closer to figuring out what he was hiding but maybe that would change his evening set in by the time ralph woke up around 6 p.m bella was now awake too bella's a bit of a grumpy old lady she's 12 and before meeting ralph last year spent pretty much her whole adult life as an only cat and she very much liked that lifestyle but then ralph came along a two-year-old ball of energy and fluff he absolutely adores bella and just can't get the hint that she doesn't want to play he'll constantly try to sleep close to her or try to tempt her into playing but she just wants to be left alone that said sometimes i think she actively enjoys tormenting him one of her favorite activities is to sit in a doorway or at the top of the stairs blocking ralph from where he wants to go he sits anxiously for a minute or two and when he makes a move she bops him i'd like to say it's not serious but judging by the footage she does hiss pretty aggressively thankfully she doesn't use her claws and she'll even pop me or danielle if we get too close when she doesn't want it in her defense bella has some really really sensitive skin at the moment which is bothering her and it's why she's wearing the donut a soft alternative to a normal cone but despite all of this ralph is very persistent he's like the annoying younger brother who always wants to play with your stuff or returns your xbox controller sticky and covered in crumbs and yes i did catch him eyeing up my xbox luckily for alfo he's got another best friend me every evening i sit downstairs editing and he jumps onto the arm of the chair and purrs for hours he's like the world's best armrest and this brings me to my favorite part of the video with the camera directly against ralph's neck his purring sounded incredible [Music] and then i went to bed i set an alarm hourly so i could swap the camera but there would still be gaps in the footage to hopefully counteract this i set up motion sensored night vision cameras to film any potential funny business uh [Music] morning came with the familiar cacophony of hungry meows i checked the footage from the night vision cameras but they all appear to have been mysteriously deleted i think they must be on the blink or something the go-to mostly captured ralph sleeping like an angel all night or sitting on the windowsill illuminated only by the camera's flashing blue light so maybe he doesn't have any deep dark secrets after all but i did learn some really important things ralph's being bullied he doesn't seem too affected by it he's not scared of bella and still constantly tries to befriend her in all fairness to bella she's just trying to enjoy her golden years in peace but maybe i'll slip around some extra treats every once in a while but the other realisation that really saddened me was just how much time ralph spent by the back door staring into the garden it's been rainy and miserable for the last few months but now it's clear he really wants to go outside unfortunately it's just not safe where we currently live but i don't want him to spend the summer cooped up indoors so i'm gonna build him a catio i've also bought some cat grass so hopefully that stops him eating my plants now like i said this video is sponsored by insta360 but regardless the go 2 really is a game changer imagine if i'd had it when we filmed the maze video imagine seeing that from ralph's point of view it's tiny and lightweight the image is amazing the stabilization is amazing and i love how i can watch it live on my phone it's so cool it's also waterproof but the most it had to tolerate in this video was some cat dribble it's available now from the link in the description and expect to see a lot more of it starting in a week or two when ralph explores his catio for the very first time ralph and tom they're my favorite little pussycats bella too she's my favorite loaf of bread it started back with reggie and his golden gate bridge subscribe for all the wonderful adventures ahead

Channel: Half-Asleep Chris

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Length: 9min 18sec (558 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 01 2021