What I wouldn't give to see those intervening twenty-five minutes. Batman wrangling cats into the Batmobile.
Oh the weirder moment came a little later, when they first got down into the batcave and he had that strange compulsion to shove them in a display case.
"And your mommy's whip goes there, and her costume is in there, and you go in here..."
*HISS SCRATCH CLAW*
"I... No no, kitties. You're right. It's okay. You're right. I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me... I..."
Alfred comes in with the food, Bruce gets to soil examining...