Showing Off Our Cat Shorts (and How We Make Them)

 Showing Off Our Cat Shorts (and How We Make Them)

We are now putting our shorts on our blog. It is very hard with the way the algorithm is these days for us to show off our cat shorts, so today I am showing you a few that you might like.

Funny Cats: Cats Being Cats #shorts

This is the first one Shy Artist made a hand-painted watercolor background for. We couldn’t find good backgrounds anymore, and we felt that YouTube was changing. But she had not painted any speech bubbles yet, so we were still using the speech bubbles from Canva or Pixabay. It started not to be as easy to use Canva like it used to be, and we couldn’t get good transparencies at the time, which is important if you are going to make your own speech bubbles. I always like to add words to the kitties and make funny sound effects if it fits the video. The cat hit and run was one of those cat clips that really needed a car screech and then a collision sound. Back then, I got all of my sound effects from Pixabay. Eventually, I would have to get sound effects somewhere else. I ended up paying for them because I needed to have a license I could actually show to YouTube or become whitelisted. Whitelisting is when a company like Uppbeat tells YouTube, "This content creator has a license to use any sound effects or music we have." It protects you when you have a content claim, especially nowadays. YouTube says they don’t punish a channel for having content claims, but I beg to differ, as we have always experienced losing views after a content claim even after presenting them with the license.

Actually, I was wrong—Jan 14, 2026 is when I started using backgrounds painted by Shy Artist. Since we don’t really like showing humans very much, we decided to use the background to show less of the humans so all the focus would be on the cat stealing the koi fish. Also, it makes us look unique, which is very important these days. YouTube can say you are not unique and stop viewers from finding you. The clip with the kitten moving on the ceiling uses one of Shy Artist's Legacy backgrounds. It worked well at allowing us to drop the cat down low enough so you can see the speech bubble. The speech bubble wasn’t Shy Artist’s. We used three of the backgrounds this time.

Funny Cats Naughty Cats and Cute Kitten

I didn’t do any more for a while because I had stopped using Canva and then had to use Clipchamp, and then Clipchamp was going to force me to pay for cloud service even if I didn’t use it. So I was struggling using different free editors that didn’t work well. February 18, 2026 is the second one we did because my son told me about Pixlr and the Resolve editor. Pixlr helped a lot. It took me three months to learn both these new tools to make my videos, but Pixlr was really important because it allowed Shy Artist to make speech bubbles.

If you liked any of the backgrounds that were used in these cat compilations, they are sold on store.serenityofthemind.com. They are reasonably priced. Shy Artist, who is also my wife, feels as we use them ourselves, we can give people a break.