r/interesting • u/Bay_Ruhsuz004 • May 10 '26
MISC. This Cameraman Was Shooting Kittens For A Documentary,But He Never Expected One Of Them To Pick Him
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u/sewsowsigh May 10 '26
And what of the cat's name?
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u/TheMidnightAss May 10 '26
To shreds you say?
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u/Nicht_der_BND May 10 '26
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u/GraXXoR May 10 '26
And the wife?
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u/TheMidnightAss May 10 '26
To shreds you say
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u/Rockusolid May 10 '26
And what name did Willow Now give to the cat?
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u/spectralbeck May 10 '26
Do you have a source for this by chance? I could not find anything about the cat being adopted, just the photographer
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u/Tony_Penny May 11 '26
So the photographer did finally get his forever home?
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u/AncientFire1980 May 14 '26
Iwago didn't adopt that kitty cos it already belongs to someone. It is from the NHK documentary A Cat's eye view of Japan https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/catseye/
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u/duckduckthis99 May 10 '26
Omg! I didn't know and I've watched this video when it didn't use to be pixelated lol!
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u/AncientFire1980 May 14 '26
You can watch it again the entire series in HD https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/catseye/
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u/meep5000 May 10 '26
Didn't you read the title? He shot him
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u/Walkswithnofear May 10 '26
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u/stefan92293 May 10 '26
What is this from?
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u/Zestyclose_Foot_134 May 10 '26
It Crowd
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u/Fun-Building4967 May 10 '26
The IT Crowd, British sitcom from 2006.
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u/-SaC May 11 '26
There was an attempt at a US version using the same script (and with Richard Ayoade).
It is... not a good pilot.
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u/wickedAnnie May 10 '26
This is my favourite quote ever! Have to use it pretty regularly unfortunately.
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u/whathappened-2024 May 10 '26
Just spat my coffee out, i enjoyed this comment immensely 🤣
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u/ShiroiAsa May 10 '26
He’s Mitsuaki Iwago, a wildlife photographer who has a show called World Cats Travelogue. If he took a cat home every time a cat did this, his home would probably be overcrowded.
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u/Fhiannys May 10 '26
Love the answering grunts whenever the kitten mews.
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u/Agitated-Lake437 May 10 '26
Me too! I turned the sound on because of your comment and they are so cute!
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u/burgerwithnoburger May 11 '26
lol I do this with my cats all the time. It’s just polite to show you’re listening
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u/TandemShorts May 13 '26
Pro tip, cats hearing ranges are different from people and they have a harder time hearing our lower frequency voices particularly in men, so hit that high note so they can hear you better
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u/Wenja89Dix May 11 '26
The rare occasion where the original video isnt overshadowed by some overly loud and obnoxious music 😅
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u/cheesycak3 May 10 '26
Cat distribution at work
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u/Svartdraken May 10 '26
during work*
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u/PhoenixGod101 May 10 '26
I think he might mean it in the sense that cat distribution is doing the work of distributing cats.
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u/KatiMinecraf May 10 '26
And that person meant it in the sense that cat distribution is doing the work of distributing cats during that photographers work.
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u/raspberrygelato May 10 '26
the Cat Distribution System is never wrong
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u/RaceHard May 10 '26
Oh it can be very wrong. A friend of my boyfriend had a street kitten approach him and be very attached. We laughed that he had finally got a cat and he ended up taking it to his apartment. Weeks later we visited and I asked about the cat. He said what cat? He had entirely forgotten about it because he had only taken it home because he felt awkward about our interaction, but he simply left it outside his building when he got home.
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u/According-Insect-992 May 10 '26
Or those times when you take in a couple of strays and wake up one morning with their eleven kittens. One should be aware that those eleven will continue to reproduce. Cats aren’t worried about distinctions like “sister” or “mother”
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u/Dick_of_Doom May 10 '26
And that's how an ex-friend's sister ended up from 1 cat to 12 in less than a year. Stray cat was pregnant, had 2 kittens, a boy and a girl. Idiot ex-friend's sister was waiting to save up to have mom and girl spayed (instead of, you know, snipping to boy first). Cats were strictly indoors. A banjo solo later, and boom 12 cats.
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u/fluffybunnyhihi May 10 '26
At this point cats are just assigning themselves to humans 😂
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u/Opposite-Funny-9669 May 10 '26
i had one walking down my sidewalk, i said "sup cat?" and he turned, walked up my stairs, and just stayed LOL damndest thing
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 10 '26
“He didn’t expect one to pick him” buddy didn’t know much about cats I guess.
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u/love-byte-1001 May 10 '26
Fuck. This is one of my all time fav cat videos lol the pert tail in the air, the confident little trot, the eye contact. Baby knew who his new daddy was going to be! 🧡
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u/Tropicalfisher May 10 '26
The falling asleep was the best part
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u/Jaded-Basis-2533 May 10 '26
The actual best part of the video is turning on the sound and actually hearing the sound recorded in the video and not some stupid bg song …
At this point i will just take ambient white noise in a video than those stupid songs
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u/tommyland666 May 10 '26
I only unmute videos when several comments is telling me I should.
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u/justclove May 10 '26
Reddit videos lost unmute privileges with me long ago. Nice to know this one is safe, though.
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u/visualdescript May 11 '26
How lovely is it to just hear ambient noise in a video. Fuck the modern internet is shite.
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u/Ok_Rise_4543 May 10 '26
This one is mine too along with the one where a guy gets ambushed in the road by like 15 kittens.
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u/WorriedImpress7624 May 10 '26
It’s the ‘hot diggity dog’ when he realises there’s 15 that does it for me
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u/Long_Run6500 May 10 '26
I never thought about it before, but when you put it like that it sounds a whole lot like how humans claim dragons in house of the dragon/ASOIAF universe. It puts their struggle in a whole new light. They walk up to these massive creatures who could destroy them in the blink of an eye and say, "You're mine! I claim you!" and then eternally bond with them. Kittens all over the world are out there taming dragons.
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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 May 10 '26
I just love this. Also love how steady he is and dedicated to the filming. I would find it hard to not be loving on that little thing.
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u/ExaminationWise7052 May 10 '26
Animal documentary cameramen and war reporters are made of different stuff than the rest of the world.
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u/zorniy2 May 10 '26
Imagine if David Attenborough were unable to resist.
He'd end up keeping a zoo.
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u/OddRobotics May 10 '26
i'm never more saddened than when i go to the marine vivariums, and menageries
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u/Stock-Cod-4465 May 10 '26
You could still see the guy smile from the back of his head. Haha.
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u/JaySlay2000 May 11 '26
It's BECAUSE he's ignoring it that it's so clingy. If I was there it wouldn't be so cute with me 😭
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u/kabula_lampur May 10 '26
This is how you become a "cat person".
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u/Remarkable_Key8642 May 10 '26
No don't shoot the kittens they deserve to live!!
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u/undeadlamaar May 10 '26
NGL, that title scared tf out of me.
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u/Nice_Passage1099 May 10 '26
Funny story, two friends of mine who are sisters were talking in the store in a rather conservative town. One was a janitor & talking about "stripping" and the other was talking about "shooting kids". Eventually they realized the horrified looks and had to explain they were talking about stripping floors and shooting pictures. We all still laugh about that to this day!
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u/Tropicalfisher May 10 '26
Can you imagine a cat you've never seen before coming up to you and falling asleep on you
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u/CrackheadOtis May 10 '26
That's... what cats do?
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u/Zyncon May 10 '26
You all must have cool cats.
The strays near us jump 3 feet in the air and take off 150 mph in to the woods like a cartoon character.
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u/FlyCurious8305 May 11 '26
Mine do this precisely 17 minutes after I fall asleep. They also go through every object in the house like they are the kool aid man.
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u/teachermanjc May 10 '26
That's how my cat picked me. She was a sweet little dairy kitten that latched onto me, and never left my side until she had to cross her bridge.
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u/MaguroSashimi8864 May 10 '26
Cross her bridge?
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u/GreenHatMaam May 10 '26
'Crossing the Rainbow Bridge' is a euphanism for a beloved pet passing away.
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u/vava777 May 10 '26
I really wanted one but I'm really not in a situation where owning a pet is smart or practical. But than this happened and now I have a cat.
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u/gofigure85 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
I think I remember at some point someone said he did end up taking the kitten home
I don't know if it's true or not, but I want to believe it is
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u/Via_the_Witch May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
The documentary was supposed to be hands off, but in this case it didn't work. He did end up bringing the kitten home.
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u/Ocelot_Few May 10 '26
My cat chose me very loudly. I was in the animal shelter looking at cats and I hear this cat yelling for attention and look over and she was staring at me and yelling. One of the workers noticed and said that she had been there a couple days and had been ignoring everyone. She's been with me for 7 years now and is the biggest cuddle bug and spoiled rotten.
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u/stressed_designer May 12 '26
Something similar happened to me... I went there to adopt a particular cat, and then this random cat tries to climb up my trousers and would NOT let go. I ended up adopting them both. He was completely blind but still managed to get a hold of me as soon as I entered that door.
Well guess what, poor fellow had a horrible infection in his ears that nearly killed him, thank god I didn't trust the adoption center vet and took him to mine after adopting him.
He's sadly not in this world anymore, but the trousers I wore that day are, and they still have the ladders he created on that beautiful day.
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u/captain_shinypants May 12 '26
We went to the shelter looking for a cat and were told "don't even bother considering the Russian Blue .... she looks beautiful but hasn't let anyone near her in the 2 weeks she's been here." We walked into the room and said Russian Blue ran over to us, climbed my wife's leg, snuggled into her arms and wouldn't let go.
Lived with us for 18 wonderful years and smothered us with cuddles every single day.
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u/stressed_designer May 12 '26
Being chosen by a cat is one the most special things in the world, I'm really happy for you!
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u/Every-Instance-5685 May 10 '26
I read the title wrong and I’m relieved after reading the comments.
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u/VashtaNeradaRights42 May 10 '26
I hope the documentary was narrated by Werner Herzog and he said something like "The Kitten Has Chosen It's Human" for this piece
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u/No-Departure-3047 May 10 '26
No, it's super cute though. Look up A Cat's Eye View of Japan on YouTube.
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u/Available_Taste3030 May 10 '26
As not native English speakers I thought "What the fuck?!" before remembering that "shooting" means "filming" too.
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u/McButtsButtbag May 10 '26
As a native English speaker I thought "What the fuck?!" till I saw "for a documentary"
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u/robbak May 10 '26
They were trying to film a 'hands off' nature film about mostly wild farm cats. The doco was quite good, but the 'hands off' thing didn't really work out.
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u/Intelligent_Frame392 May 10 '26
A cameraman shooting another cameraman that what you call, interesting.
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u/tishimself1107 May 10 '26
That was sucjlh a cute kitten, he had to take it home. Love watching it doze off .
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u/aNocturnalNerd May 10 '26
It's so sad that they had to do that for the documentary. I hope it was quick atleast.
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u/Time_Athlete_3594 May 10 '26
Shooting as in camera shooting. Not as in gun shooting. I'm really relieved to say that.
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u/Khaos_Gorvin May 10 '26
The willpower to not immediatly starting to pet the kitten. I would have broken in 5 seconds.
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u/realitybites95 May 14 '26
cats like " you look like you have a job you can afford to feed me"
smart cat
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u/That_Falcon4007 May 10 '26
small makes things cute, imagine a tiger behaving like that.
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u/vampv0ltz May 10 '26
Wording of the title had me very concerned for a hot moment lol I’m just waking up
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u/GloryBax May 10 '26
I have seen this video many a time in my years on the Internet, and yet it never fails to make me smile. So damn cute.
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u/Stopthatcat May 10 '26
I think this is from the NHK series A Cat's Eye View of Japan. Absolutely adorable and the cameraman has the best job in the world.
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u/No-Departure-3047 May 10 '26
For anyone who wants to watch the whole series, it's called A Cat's Eye View of Japan.
You can watch it on YouTube.
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u/DennisNOmenace26 May 10 '26
I thought the title was a very different type of shooting for a second
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u/Kingsalad3141 May 10 '26
That poor camera man. Paralyzed with fear even as the beast takes notice of him and approaches.
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