Watch the neighbor with the dog get the FluentPet setup, too. "My cat said she doesn’t like your dog‘s noises." "I'll tell him." Dog: "I wish to play with the small angry dog."
I wonder if she meant dog and person with them as friend... but meant friend as person who is not my mom. She uses the word Billie sometimes for other cats. alerting her mom of the dog and human duo. I'm not co vined she meant she thought te dog was her friend.
I think mom misunderstood. She kept repeating Dog dog dog want want want. Either she wants a friend, or she's concerned about the dog wanting something. Maybe he's crying cause he's hungry.
These videos basically confirm what we've all suspected all along...cats walk around in a constant state of being mad about something. LOL. Poor Billi. She is precious.
Some cats do. I think my cat Felicia is always angry about something. Justin on the other hand seems to just care about taking naps and treats. Fox just wants to be near me and cuddle. Jordan is either wanting cuddles from me or his siblings. Felicia is the only one who gives me the impression she’s always mad about something
Mine does to. She dislikes my other cat. They have growl and hiss fights. But I would never trade them for anything. I think every human would be in so much trouble if cats had opposable thumbs. They already order us around and we just do what they want. LOL.
Dear city councilors, My cat would like to submit a formal complaint about "noise dog". She has expressed that it makes her feel "mad" and she wants it "all done bye" . Thank you for your understanding
It looks like Billi was having one of those most-human of emotional activities - rant. "I'm so over all the noise around here. And the dogs! The dogs are the worst! No manners at all. They make me so mad!"
Billi: "Mom, come here." Mom: "Yes, Billi. I am coming." Billi: "There is a noise." Mom: "What noise?" Billi: "It's that dog. 😒" Mom: "You hear the dog outside?" Billi: "Yes, that dog. I want that dog to be quiet. I don't have a button for this. I am mad." Mom: "Billi, do you want the dog noise to go bye?" Billi: "Yes! That's what I want."
@@bobbybobstar1496 it’s not human so all the conversations aren’t gonna be super construct but the fact the cat has a basic understanding of it’s emotions and can express them is revolutionary.
I think my cat now realizes that I can't see in the dark (at least right away before my eyes adjust). "Why are you just standing there? Just step over me and go."
@@SquidandCatAdventures I wish my black cat would realize that! If I go to the bathroom at night I trip over him waiting outside the door. I have to have multiple motion sensor lights on the floor from my bedroom to the bathroom.
@@SquidandCatAdventures oh my cat learned very quickly to stay out of my way when I go to the bathroom at night and on the way back to bed. He even waits until I'm in bed and have the covers pulled back up before he even comes back in the room. Then he jumps up at the end of the bed and comes and lays down by me. I guess there were too many times when it didn't work out right when he was younger and he figured out this way was easiest. But this way we both stay safe and I don't fall and he doesn't get stepped on. It's a good system. 😻
I think so. There is another video where a cat recognizes on vid thqt the other cat is blind and tip toes away from him. Its like you can see the lightbulb above its head go on. The name is triscuit realizes that shadow is blind. Its a similar situation. A cat should be able to detect that the human is worse sensory wise.
When she hit "mad" and walked away for a minute, I swear I could hear inside Billi's head: "I give up. This chick is NOT picking up what I'm putting down!" 😁😁 This channel never fails to make me laugh!
@@sassycat6536 I laughed out loud, too. Now that we know a little of how Billi's mind works, (& many of us have cats that act VERY similar!) we can read her body language, and pretty much know what she's thinking!
There is a theory that it is possible for humans to communicate with their pets. I mean, some claim its verbal cues, others say its body language, another suggests telepathy is possible. And still the majority remain steadfast to just speaking to their beloved pets with silly baby voices. Billi, on the other hand, has proven her scientific genius! 😁😁
@@ababyharpseal6534 LOL I actually got some buttons but one of our cats is a "foodie" it would be "TREAT TREAT TREAT". 😆 She already races me to the kitchen because she knows where they are hidden.
Yes, strong possibility. I interpreted it as four separate statements. Mom, COME, this is time sensitive. I hear a NOISE. I think it's a DOG. I WANT to go see. She usually uses all done if she wants something to stop. I think she was wanting to check it out together with Mom, hence pointing her body at the window. To me using mad was more expressing frustration (the ears and tail as well) that she couldn't express herself clearly enough to investigate the noise fast enough. My pets have gotten mad if I didn't go look out the window or door fast enough. I always pay attention to my pets if they are concerned about outside noises. I myself am very good at interpretation of animal vocalizations. I will ignore barking for hours and then suddenly respond to just one bark because it means something different. My pets do the same, they don't care until they hear something worth caring about. I've been outside, in the country, at 3 am with a flashlight, because when 2 dogs and 2 cats all agree you better go check it out, you check it out, even when your human ears can't hear it! I'd start my search in front of which ever window all four pets ran to watch from, and 9 times out of 10, there is a reason! My partner is not fluent in either cat or dog, and he's very slow when I start yelling, check outside! Unfortunately, my biggest concern came true when our neighbors cat was killed behind our house. I had told him the dogs (who have been barking non-stop for years and irritating the whole block) had changed to a murderous vocalization, and that he needed to move his ass and RUN when I said go check. Before the barks were always high anxiety or territorial aggression, but never intent to kill. These dogs are in a yard that borders our house and we've had to intervene in a few situations. He wasn't able to save the cat, and my indoor only dog witnessed the whole murder, which was traumatizing for him too. So maybe it wasn't the noise bothering her this time, but rather she felt whatever the dog was 'saying' warranted investigating, esp since Billi likes dogs. To me, from the minute she walked to press come, her body language indicated she thought this situation required speed. But of course, every cat is different, so I could be wrong.
@@OG_Wonder_Woman I think you are right. All mammals have a similar autonomic nervous system that allows a group response to threat - conveyed very quickly from one nervous system to another via body language (e.g. freeze and assess/orient to threat), vocal tone (urgency, life threat or safety cues) and even subtle shifts of heart rate and breathing. Maybe what Billi wanted was to go see together - to assess the shared potential threat. and possibly tell it to back off! Since lock down me and my cat do this a lot - if either one of us jumps at a sound and we both go to stare at what ever it is! If I don't like a surprise visitor he comes over to be held too. We have synced up our responses to a sense of threat and resource, including absolute disbelief if I eat meat with out sharing any! which rarely happens cos I feel the guilt/urge to share the carnivore-love immediately! It's become instinctual
Interesting question. Theory of mind in non-human animals is often hard to study. I have heard of a dog acting as a seeing eye dog for a blind dog, so it's not unheard of that an animal might be able to figure out another animal is sense-impaired. Hard to know for sure, though.
@@jaschabull2365 there are not just 'seeing eye ' dogs for thr blind (they have existed for nearly 100 years),but now days 'hearing' dogs for the deaf. But dogs and cats are somewhat different, because dogs want to cooperate with their pack members (us humans) while cats are not so willing. This is why people who don't know cats still dispute their intelligence unfortunately, not lack of intelligence, lack of cooperation :))
The other thing to note is that other button pets have shown that even though they can be and grow to be remarkably intelligent, they don't seem to be aware that they are different from people; all of the ones I've seen have shown confusion when met with any challenge to them being different than their owners, most obviously being Bunny, who was visibly confused that she didn't look like her owners when she saw herself in a mirror, as well as asking questions with her buttons and making remarks that indicate that she struggles with differentiating herself as a dog and her owners as humans. This probably means, in a strange twist, Billi probably thinks her Mom is a very disabled "cat" since she can't hear anything Billi can or see in the dark, and Billi might not recognize that she is different than her owners.
@@greenpiersystem Bunny asked about her dog mom, and Alexis corrected her that she herself is human, not dog. I wonder myself about species identification... but Bunny definitely asked to see her biological mother. My cats used to HATE any noise... I had to stop playing guitar around them. They do have super powers like smell and hearing, but only we can take them on walks.
@@greenpiersystem I've been working with Turdus Migratorius (N.American Robins) trying to figure out their speech. They don't seem to understand species differences either. They seem to exhibit language elements specific to mating, since they mate multiple times a year - a scheduling nightmare lol
Oh man I could SEE the gears turning in her head after she pressed "want" and she was trying to figure out what word best fit what she wanted to happen.
I got a feeling Billi maybe also wanted you to reassure that the dog won't get in the house. That calms my cat down when i tell him that about loud machinery outside - i say, we are safe, and he loves that! This button board communication is truly amazing! Thank you for showing how smart and full of feelings animals really are!!🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖
We've seen Billi push some buttons repeatedly to express the gravity of some words, but i was wondering if in a way she is trying to express numbers or if numbers can be of any use in her language?
Cats have no way of counting in regular cat-to-cat communication, or in their vocal communication with humans, so it would be highly surprising if she were to count off things even given the ability to do so. It is more likely to me that she repeats things as she's going over them in her head, somewhat comparable to how a toddler might repeat the same things.
@@IAmBael I do believe it's more likely she repeats them as she thinks of them or just however many times she thinks is appropriate, but many animals have at least a basic ability to count despite not being able to express numbers. Most animals (including some insects) can count up to 3 or 4 before it just becomes "many" (the same for humans without any way of keeping track! Without some pattern or a way to tally the total, we can't tell numbers after 4. 5 and 6 are indistinguishable to us) If Billi got number buttons, it would likely go 1, 2, 3, 4, many. And she could learn the difference between the numbers and easily understand. Though it's debatable if a cat would be able to understand numbers like 12, 16, 36, or 219.
Billie can distinguish between the dog and the noise rather than the dog and noise being the same thing! That's amazing! Not to mention she knows the feeling of being mad!
I'm just trying to imagine that conversation with the neighbors. "So, um, my cat says your dog is being really noisy. Please do something, or I'll never hear the end of it."
I just found these videos in my recommended and I am in such awe over the genius of this. It's like some kind of behaviorism thing where the animal learns to associate different noises with different stimuli. The cat is highly trained and able to use the buttons to communicate its feelings extremely well and sure maybe it might not be perfect sometimes because what the cat is implying might not always come through but this is amazing im still in shock and disbelief that an apparatus like this exists to train an animal with and reach this extent of communication.
Billi wanted the dog barking stopped immediately and Kendra was not responding to her request because she didn't hear the dog. I knew that "Mad" button was coming.
This is so neat. As a former pet owner (and hoping to have a pet again someday), I've always wondered what dogs/cats could say if given the opportunity. This is an opportunity for cats like Billi (and on a separate channel, Bunny and Otter the poodles-I think) to have a platform for speaking their minds. Whoever created those buttons is an utter genius. And thank you, Billispeaks, for making my day a fair bit brighter.
I went through many thoughts with this one lol.. like maybe she wanted to go outside like the dog, or even to visit the dog? Or maybe she was even trying to convey what the dog was saying? (the dog was making noise because it was mad?) Or it could be just that she was mad that the dog was still barking? Also wondered if she was pushing ‘noise’ and ‘mad’ to the count of how many times the dog barked (or even that the dog was possibly saying it was mad over and over?) 🤷♀️ So many thoughts with this one.
It makes sense that Billie can distinguish between different kinds of barking. Animals sense or by experience know if another animal is relaxing, in distress or hunting, etc.
I also wondered if the “want” button was gearing more to her asking what the dog wants too. And “mad” could have been her contemplating if the dog was mad. Or it could just be good old kitty fashion to be mad at the dog. 😆
I don’t know what my cats are thinking with our next door neighbour’s dog. They like to sit as close to the fence that separates our gardens as they can so that the dog will smell them and start barking. Either they aren’t scared of him or they think it’s worth the risk to annoy our neighbours
I agree Billi, especially in the early hours between 1 am to 5 am when I am trying to sleep! GRR. That's what I thought too, she wanted to say make it shut up. LOL At least now you are onto the fact that when she hits the mad button while trying to communicate, it means you are not getting it. Hopefully what you showed her will help her in the future to get her point across. God bless you Billi, you make so many people smile, laugh and feel really good about themselves watching you communicate like this. Pets & treats or catnip mom please, she deserves it. God bless you, dad and the people who came up with this idea. Thanks to all.
I wonder if Billi has used the term "Pet Sounds" for purring ever again and also whether she has tried "Billi pets Mom" again and/or if Mom asks Billi to pet her, if Billi will respond to this request.
The scientific part of me would love to get a scan of billi's brain to compare with a few other cats. I suspect she's got a very active neural network from all the contemplating she's done around figuring out how to communicate via soundboard. 🤔
I have a MSc degree in cognitive psychology. This video experiment is very interesting, but not for the reasons you think. If you take a brain scan from this cat you would see nothing special. Cats have amazing brains for cat things like running up trees, but they can't process abstract symbolic language. This is defined in large part by the brain anatomy, cats have small and simple brains compared to primates. If Billy could do what is implied in the video, it would turn the whole academic field of neuroscience on its head and drastically change our idea on how the brain works. These ideas were formed on combined research experience of thousands of years and countless animal and human subjects. So what is actually the case is that Billy is just a happy cat that likes to press random buttons in exchange for attention from his lady. The interesting part of the video is the people commenting! People are seeing patterns (that are not real), and the human brain is very good at that! There is not a dog to be seen or heard, but everyone is imagining stories that Billy hears or sees dogs that we don't or wants a dog companion or saw a dog yesterday or whatever. Billy is like a living Ouija board! 😄
@@joostdriesens3984 sounds like bias on your part to me. You underestimate the power of adaption I think- a common mistake in the biological sciences. Without running the proper experiments, you nor I can make any claim. You can state what you believe, and correlate research in the past to this, but unless you have research with a cat thats been trained it's whole life in the use of a soundboard like Billi has, I doubt it's relevant. I mean, there is definite intentionality in her button presses. They're not so random considering she goes out of her way to avoid buttons and searches for specific buttons to press. I'm not saying she's got a strong understanding of language necessarily, but she has definitely shown some degree of pattern recognition. It would be interesting to test how nurture has affected her development, if at all. I am not dissuaded sir, I still want that cat in a CAT-scan for science!
@@alexrosario423 There is definitely intentionality in her presses. Billy likes pressing buttons. Billy can even learn single button meanings, like 'food' or 'open door'. However I don't believe (based on scientific findings and my own observations as a big fan of cats) that Billy can learn combinations of concepts, especially if they are abstract (like 'afternoon' or 'noise). It's the same as you and I can never have cat reflexes no matter how early we start learning. I would recommend the Billy 'rage' video in which she presses the 'mad' button 20 times, but she is perfectly happy as you can see from her normal non-verbal cat communication. I was thinking about an MRI scan, but now that you mention a CAT scan for the cat, you have convinced me that this indeed is a worthwhile and necessary endeavour! 😄
@@joostdriesens3984 this is interesting. Do you think Billi doesn’t truly understand? She clearly has no concept of sentence structure, which is expected. Noise dog and dog noise would be interchangeable to her. But she does seem to correlate words to common actions or objects. Dogs clearly assign meaning to certain words ‘walk’ ‘treat’ so why wouldn’t Billi be able to request certain things with the button?
@@GoneGrimdark Requesting things with a button or even a couple of buttons (an action sequence) is fine for cats, one can also do it with mice, birds, dogs etc. It's called classical conditioning in Psychology. However, these videos claim that you can have conversations with your cat and that the creative use of the buttons reveal abstract logic and reasoning that the cat has developed and is now able to express through the buttons. The mistake of projecting our own thoughts and feelings on animals is called 'Anthropomorphism'. Below is an example of a simple classical conditioning video and is imo a more realistic insight to how cats think and act. It is also super cute :-) th-cam.com/video/6lp-LPc3LGI/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I LOVE that you've taught your cat (dog) to speak. :) Billi, I believe, was asking why the dog was barking, or that Billi wanted to play with the dog. Billu was "mad", by seeing the cues from you, so Billi thought the dog was mad or that you wernt explaining correctly. Thank u for your care of Billi. Keep up the good work! :)
The button-language seems to lack a negation-option. I understand that you can do a lot with "bye" and "all done", but a realistic all-purpose languae need a negation. However, explaining this as a concept can be tricky.
How funny that we all ‘write’ the words on each button instead of putting pictures on them (like you’ve done on the Billi Button) It wouldn’t solve all problems, but some of them, like Grandma, Dad, day, night, zoom zoom, fan toy, etc.
Maybe she's becoming bilingual, is studying dog as her second language and recognizes the the dog wants something. She is a very smart kitty after all!
It's interesting. From having a cat, they seem to do that "Want" but without any knowledge of what they want. They stand by the door and wait to see if that is what they had wanted. I wonder if there are translation issues, eg a word like "want" or "mad" which are a feeling that is not tied to a thing, but is a firm emotional state. As humans we rush in and want to be people / cat pleasers and have a belief that finding a thing to solve that want will be productive. Cats don't seem to care what others want.
I still want to see what would happen if you had one of the dogs with buttons and Billi together. As long as someone got them started with the buttons. I wonder how both would react to another animal they could possibly communicate with via the buttons.
I get same feeling Billi craves a button that could fill in the blank concept here. And maybe 'dog' noise is the closest thing she's got to other urban noise like construction hammering. There is the times she knows the microwave beeping is noise; and when it's over Mom is freed from its spell with something good to eat. I'm still a bit fascinated by the idea that I did have the "I wish I knew what my cat is saying" and then I could now get the wish and have to interact with a two-year-old intellect for fifteen or so years. It's another step down that road someone created in a pet food ad campaign of being a 'pet parent.'
Imagine your neighbour rings your bell and tells you „my cat said she doesn’t like your dog‘s noises. Could you tone it down please“ 😂
And then your neighbor says "no really, here's the video" 😹
If so, I really hope it is Bunnys humans! 😂
Imagine anyone thinking you can make a dog stop making noise.
@@jaschabull2365 that's why it was a joke. 😁
Watch the neighbor with the dog get the FluentPet setup, too.
"My cat said she doesn’t like your dog‘s noises."
"I'll tell him."
Dog: "I wish to play with the small angry dog."
Billi a few months ago: Dog friend.
Billi now: DOG NOISE. WANT MAD ALL DONE.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that I get bullied because my classmates think my videos are the worst. Please don't agree, dear dani
I wonder if she meant dog and person with them as friend... but meant friend as person who is not my mom. She uses the word Billie sometimes for other cats. alerting her mom of the dog and human duo. I'm not co vined she meant she thought te dog was her friend.
@@elle7533 this makes a lot of sense imo
I think mom misunderstood. She kept repeating Dog dog dog want want want. Either she wants a friend, or she's concerned about the dog wanting something. Maybe he's crying cause he's hungry.
@@kellypatterson4412 could be anything. But Billi is very sensitive to noises. They can really bother her.
These videos basically confirm what we've all suspected all along...cats walk around in a constant state of being mad about something. LOL. Poor Billi. She is precious.
Some cats do.
I think my cat Felicia is always angry about something.
Justin on the other hand seems to just care about taking naps and treats.
Fox just wants to be near me and cuddle.
Jordan is either wanting cuddles from me or his siblings.
Felicia is the only one who gives me the impression she’s always mad about something
Mine does to. She dislikes my other cat. They have growl and hiss fights. But I would never trade them for anything.
I think every human would be in so much trouble if cats had opposable thumbs. They already order us around and we just do what they want. LOL.
Billie: “mom tell the dog to shut the hell up I wanna nap!” 😂
That about sums it up. I'd be pressin' that Mad button, too. X10.
Dear city councilors,
My cat would like to submit a formal complaint about "noise dog". She has expressed that it makes her feel "mad" and she wants it "all done bye" .
Thank you for your understanding
OMG, I LOL-ed until I was choking!! That was hysterical 🤣 Perfect!
I have the exact same complain xD
😹😹😹
Love ❤️ it!
Dear City Council, omae wa mou shinderu.
City Council: "Nani?"
It looks like Billi was having one of those most-human of emotional activities - rant. "I'm so over all the noise around here. And the dogs! The dogs are the worst! No manners at all. They make me so mad!"
I know, it made me wonder if she just wanted some commiseration...
"mad" will always be funny
Lololol yes
When she kept pressing want and waiting for you to respond, I knew she was gonna head for that mad button when you didn't. LOL
Right? Omg she is too much! LOVE.HER.❤
Saaaaame
Billi has the cutest little white-glove paws!
And stylish white boots!
What a ladylike cat 🐈
Yeah, love those cute little paws!
I was just thinking the same thing. Cute little hands pressing those buttons.
I call them milk toes 🤣
She seems to think you can stop dog noise. Like they think we can change the weather. 😆
We have access to
The God that they
don’t, so in a way,
yes. We can ask
Him to change
The weather
animals can’t
Mother i will not be cuddled until my noise complaints are addressed!
ot myb Bili wants a pet dog?
Billi: "Mom, come here."
Mom: "Yes, Billi. I am coming."
Billi: "There is a noise."
Mom: "What noise?"
Billi: "It's that dog. 😒"
Mom: "You hear the dog outside?"
Billi: "Yes, that dog. I want that dog to be quiet. I don't have a button for this. I am mad."
Mom: "Billi, do you want the dog noise to go bye?"
Billi: "Yes! That's what I want."
Yea it doesn't have any idea what it's saying
@@bobbybobstar1496 you doesn't have any idea why are you still alive.
@@jasskeeper8152 let me help you child, *you don't.
@@jasskeeper8152 that’s the worst throwback I’ve ever seen but good effort.
@@bobbybobstar1496 it’s not human so all the conversations aren’t gonna be super construct but the fact the cat has a basic understanding of it’s emotions and can express them is revolutionary.
She is kind of dramatic! I love her
Definitely dramatic 😹
Ahh...well.. she is a cat isn't she.
Water is kind of wet! lol
Do you think Billi realizes your hearing is much worse then hers?
She must at this point 😂😂 she’s probably like “are you ok? How do you navigate life so hard of hearing?”
I think my cat now realizes that I can't see in the dark (at least right away before my eyes adjust). "Why are you just standing there? Just step over me and go."
@@SquidandCatAdventures
I wish my black cat would realize that! If I go to the bathroom at night I trip over him waiting outside the door. I have to have multiple motion sensor lights on the floor from my bedroom to the bathroom.
@@SquidandCatAdventures oh my cat learned very quickly to stay out of my way when I go to the bathroom at night and on the way back to bed. He even waits until I'm in bed and have the covers pulled back up before he even comes back in the room. Then he jumps up at the end of the bed and comes and lays down by me. I guess there were too many times when it didn't work out right when he was younger and he figured out this way was easiest. But this way we both stay safe and I don't fall and he doesn't get stepped on. It's a good system. 😻
I think so. There is another video where a cat recognizes on vid thqt the other cat is blind and tip toes away from him. Its like you can see the lightbulb above its head go on. The name is triscuit realizes that shadow is blind.
Its a similar situation. A cat should be able to detect that the human is worse sensory wise.
When she hit "mad" and walked away for a minute, I swear I could hear inside Billi's head: "I give up. This chick is NOT picking up what I'm putting down!" 😁😁 This channel never fails to make me laugh!
....Billi turning her back , walking away in disgust, and dismissing mom, made me laugh out loud. Such a diva. 😺😺
@@sassycat6536 I laughed out loud, too. Now that we know a little of how Billi's mind works, (& many of us have cats that act VERY similar!) we can read her body language, and pretty much know what she's thinking!
Im not sure how she didnt laugh, because that was hilarious. SUCH attitude lmao
There is a theory that it is possible for humans to communicate with their pets.
I mean, some claim its verbal cues, others say its body language, another suggests telepathy is possible.
And still the majority remain steadfast to just speaking to their beloved pets with silly baby voices.
Billi, on the other hand, has proven her scientific genius! 😁😁
Totally agree! Only I felt it was more FU human.
"Excuse me but could you possibly tell your dog to be quiet? My cat is offended by his presence!"
I would love to witness that conversation 😂
I feel this cat's pain.
Don't need buttons to know she's miffed...that tail says it all! 😻👍🏻❤
Cats can be pretty expressive with their body language. Especially a sassy one like Billi
That’s exactly why I haven’t tried the buttons with my roommate’s adolescent cat. I know it would just be one long stream of “MAD MAD MAD”, lol
@@ababyharpseal6534 LOL I actually got some buttons but one of our cats is a "foodie" it would be "TREAT TREAT TREAT". 😆 She already races me to the kitchen because she knows where they are hidden.
The way she walks away after pressing mad 😂
😂 that's her mic drop moment.
Billie realizes that humans are deaf.
You can almost see the frustration of "There's no button for this!"
"I want you to stop that noise dog! I'm MAD" The queen has spoken 👑
It feels like she was looking for a word that she doesn't have and was frustrated about that. No idea what the word could've been, though.
My impression, too.
Same
Agreed.
Second that.
I thought she wanted to say "want quiet"
Billi has very delicate ears. I love the video in which she objects to the "Hamilton" soundtrack!
ME TOO!!!
My favorite 😂
Billi needs noise cancelling headphones
Nobody:
Billi: "SHUT THAT GODDAMN DOG UP YOU HEAR?!"
"GET OF MAH LAWN!!" :-)
I think Billi wanted Kendra to 'fuss' at the dog for her...that's why she kept sitting down and looking at the window.
Yes, strong possibility. I interpreted it as four separate statements. Mom, COME, this is time sensitive. I hear a NOISE. I think it's a DOG. I WANT to go see. She usually uses all done if she wants something to stop. I think she was wanting to check it out together with Mom, hence pointing her body at the window.
To me using mad was more expressing frustration (the ears and tail as well) that she couldn't express herself clearly enough to investigate the noise fast enough. My pets have gotten mad if I didn't go look out the window or door fast enough.
I always pay attention to my pets if they are concerned about outside noises. I myself am very good at interpretation of animal vocalizations. I will ignore barking for hours and then suddenly respond to just one bark because it means something different. My pets do the same, they don't care until they hear something worth caring about. I've been outside, in the country, at 3 am with a flashlight, because when 2 dogs and 2 cats all agree you better go check it out, you check it out, even when your human ears can't hear it! I'd start my search in front of which ever window all four pets ran to watch from, and 9 times out of 10, there is a reason!
My partner is not fluent in either cat or dog, and he's very slow when I start yelling, check outside! Unfortunately, my biggest concern came true when our neighbors cat was killed behind our house. I had told him the dogs (who have been barking non-stop for years and irritating the whole block) had changed to a murderous vocalization, and that he needed to move his ass and RUN when I said go check. Before the barks were always high anxiety or territorial aggression, but never intent to kill. These dogs are in a yard that borders our house and we've had to intervene in a few situations. He wasn't able to save the cat, and my indoor only dog witnessed the whole murder, which was traumatizing for him too.
So maybe it wasn't the noise bothering her this time, but rather she felt whatever the dog was 'saying' warranted investigating, esp since Billi likes dogs. To me, from the minute she walked to press come, her body language indicated she thought this situation required speed. But of course, every cat is different, so I could be wrong.
@@OG_Wonder_Woman I think you are right. All mammals have a similar autonomic nervous system that allows a group response to threat - conveyed very quickly from one nervous system to another via body language (e.g. freeze and assess/orient to threat), vocal tone (urgency, life threat or safety cues) and even subtle shifts of heart rate and breathing. Maybe what Billi wanted was to go see together - to assess the shared potential threat. and possibly tell it to back off!
Since lock down me and my cat do this a lot - if either one of us jumps at a sound and we both go to stare at what ever it is! If I don't like a surprise visitor he comes over to be held too. We have synced up our responses to a sense of threat and resource, including absolute disbelief if I eat meat with out sharing any! which rarely happens cos I feel the guilt/urge to share the carnivore-love immediately! It's become instinctual
Kendra: "Aww Billi, want dog noise gone hmm?"
Billi: "Dispatch the filthy beast at once, madam..."
When does Billi begin to suspect that she has more acute senses than her 'mom'?
Interesting question. Theory of mind in non-human animals is often hard to study. I have heard of a dog acting as a seeing eye dog for a blind dog, so it's not unheard of that an animal might be able to figure out another animal is sense-impaired. Hard to know for sure, though.
@@jaschabull2365 there are not just 'seeing eye ' dogs for thr blind (they have existed for nearly 100 years),but now days 'hearing' dogs for the deaf.
But dogs and cats are somewhat different, because dogs want to cooperate with their pack members (us humans) while cats are not so willing. This is why people who don't know cats still dispute their intelligence unfortunately, not lack of intelligence, lack of cooperation :))
The other thing to note is that other button pets have shown that even though they can be and grow to be remarkably intelligent, they don't seem to be aware that they are different from people; all of the ones I've seen have shown confusion when met with any challenge to them being different than their owners, most obviously being Bunny, who was visibly confused that she didn't look like her owners when she saw herself in a mirror, as well as asking questions with her buttons and making remarks that indicate that she struggles with differentiating herself as a dog and her owners as humans. This probably means, in a strange twist, Billi probably thinks her Mom is a very disabled "cat" since she can't hear anything Billi can or see in the dark, and Billi might not recognize that she is different than her owners.
@@greenpiersystem Bunny asked about her dog mom, and Alexis corrected her that she herself is human, not dog. I wonder myself about species identification... but Bunny definitely asked to see her biological mother. My cats used to HATE any noise... I had to stop playing guitar around them. They do have super powers like smell and hearing, but only we can take them on walks.
@@greenpiersystem I've been working with Turdus Migratorius (N.American Robins) trying to figure out their speech. They don't seem to understand species differences either. They seem to exhibit language elements specific to mating, since they mate multiple times a year - a scheduling nightmare lol
She probably doesn’t get why you can never hear the noises she hears outside with her amazing kitty ears. 😂
I loved how she pressed 'Mad' and then just walked away. Like she gave up trying to explain.
She places her Christmas wishlist early… a barking bunny-dog stuffed with Catnip… if not, she mad.
Oh man I could SEE the gears turning in her head after she pressed "want" and she was trying to figure out what word best fit what she wanted to happen.
I got a feeling Billi maybe also wanted you to reassure that the dog won't get in the house. That calms my cat down when i tell him that about loud machinery outside - i say, we are safe, and he loves that! This button board communication is truly amazing! Thank you for showing how smart and full of feelings animals really are!!🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏💖
We've seen Billi push some buttons repeatedly to express the gravity of some words, but i was wondering if in a way she is trying to express numbers or if numbers can be of any use in her language?
I wondered if she was hitting "dog" each time she heard the dog, like "are you sure you don't hear that, mom?"
Cats have no way of counting in regular cat-to-cat communication, or in their vocal communication with humans, so it would be highly surprising if she were to count off things even given the ability to do so.
It is more likely to me that she repeats things as she's going over them in her head, somewhat comparable to how a toddler might repeat the same things.
@@IAmBael I do believe it's more likely she repeats them as she thinks of them or just however many times she thinks is appropriate, but many animals have at least a basic ability to count despite not being able to express numbers.
Most animals (including some insects) can count up to 3 or 4 before it just becomes "many" (the same for humans without any way of keeping track! Without some pattern or a way to tally the total, we can't tell numbers after 4. 5 and 6 are indistinguishable to us)
If Billi got number buttons, it would likely go 1, 2, 3, 4, many. And she could learn the difference between the numbers and easily understand. Though it's debatable if a cat would be able to understand numbers like 12, 16, 36, or 219.
Hrair!
@@IAmBael Animals can tell the difference between small numbers - they have to be able to do so, to keep track of their offspring
Billie can distinguish between the dog and the noise rather than the dog and noise being the same thing! That's amazing! Not to mention she knows the feeling of being mad!
I love that she can summon you with just a button 😂
Billi has pretty good hearing for a senior cat! 🐱
My cat is the same age and her hearing is ridiculous! I am constantly amazed at how sensitive her hearing is.
I'm just trying to imagine that conversation with the neighbors. "So, um, my cat says your dog is being really noisy. Please do something, or I'll never hear the end of it."
I think you interpret Billi’s words so well. Only a few words needed. Sweetly Illustrates how close you are to each other!
I love the way that Billi intensely swishes her tail to accompany the "mad" button!😹
I bet Billi would curse if she knew any curse words.
I just found these videos in my recommended and I am in such awe over the genius of this. It's like some kind of behaviorism thing where the animal learns to associate different noises with different stimuli. The cat is highly trained and able to use the buttons to communicate its feelings extremely well and sure maybe it might not be perfect sometimes because what the cat is implying might not always come through but this is amazing im still in shock and disbelief that an apparatus like this exists to train an animal with and reach this extent of communication.
the amount of patience on mom's behalf...
so much determination and focus.
So far we know she does not like waiting, dogs, washing dishes noise or the soundtrack of Hamilton. What else is on the list?
To come back inside when she is having fun exploring outside 😁
Billi wanted the dog barking stopped immediately and Kendra was not responding to her request because she didn't hear the dog. I knew that "Mad" button was coming.
This is so neat. As a former pet owner (and hoping to have a pet again someday), I've always wondered what dogs/cats could say if given the opportunity. This is an opportunity for cats like Billi (and on a separate channel, Bunny and Otter the poodles-I think) to have a platform for speaking their minds. Whoever created those buttons is an utter genius. And thank you, Billispeaks, for making my day a fair bit brighter.
I went through many thoughts with this one lol.. like maybe she wanted to go outside like the dog, or even to visit the dog? Or maybe she was even trying to convey what the dog was saying? (the dog was making noise because it was mad?) Or it could be just that she was mad that the dog was still barking? Also wondered if she was pushing ‘noise’ and ‘mad’ to the count of how many times the dog barked (or even that the dog was possibly saying it was mad over and over?) 🤷♀️ So many thoughts with this one.
Excellent thinking 👍
I don't think Billie wanted to go Outside and was just annoyed that the Dog was making noise.
I was wondering if she wants a friend but you may have it.
It makes sense that Billie can distinguish between different kinds of barking. Animals sense or by experience know if another animal is relaxing, in distress or hunting, etc.
I also wondered if the “want” button was gearing more to her asking what the dog wants too. And “mad” could have been her contemplating if the dog was mad. Or it could just be good old kitty fashion to be mad at the dog. 😆
Poor Billi, Noise bye soon. Safe inside. She’s so smart 🥰
I don’t know what my cats are thinking with our next door neighbour’s dog. They like to sit as close to the fence that separates our gardens as they can so that the dog will smell them and start barking. Either they aren’t scared of him or they think it’s worth the risk to annoy our neighbours
Shortest song ever: “How much is that doggie in the w-“ 😤
"in the w- Mad!"
I still think Billi wants a puppy of her own. The Queen needs a faithful companion.
I think Bily needs a button that says "just read my mind human"
Billi wants a pet dog so she can be mad at it when it makes a noise.
Somehow I just knew she was going for the MAD button 😂
I agree Billi, especially in the early hours between 1 am to 5 am when I am trying to sleep! GRR. That's what I thought too, she wanted to say make it shut up. LOL At least now you are onto the fact that when she hits the mad button while trying to communicate, it means you are not getting it. Hopefully what you showed her will help her in the future to get her point across. God bless you Billi, you make so many people smile, laugh and feel really good about themselves watching you communicate like this. Pets & treats or catnip mom please, she deserves it. God bless you, dad and the people who came up with this idea. Thanks to all.
Billi: "I want something, but I want you know what I want. You don't know? Ugh! I'm mad." LOL
I was convinced that her last touch would have been MAD. ☺️
Billy: *want*...waits for 5 minutes...*mad*
Now that is a diva!
I was really hoping for "want dog noise all done", but we all knew what she wanted XD
Billi: "Make it stop! Im mad at you, mom!"😂💛
I wonder if Billi has used the term "Pet Sounds" for purring ever again and also whether she has tried "Billi pets Mom" again and/or if Mom asks Billi to pet her, if Billi will respond to this request.
The scientific part of me would love to get a scan of billi's brain to compare with a few other cats. I suspect she's got a very active neural network from all the contemplating she's done around figuring out how to communicate via soundboard. 🤔
I have a MSc degree in cognitive psychology. This video experiment is very interesting, but not for the reasons you think. If you take a brain scan from this cat you would see nothing special. Cats have amazing brains for cat things like running up trees, but they can't process abstract symbolic language. This is defined in large part by the brain anatomy, cats have small and simple brains compared to primates.
If Billy could do what is implied in the video, it would turn the whole academic field of neuroscience on its head and drastically change our idea on how the brain works. These ideas were formed on combined research experience of thousands of years and countless animal and human subjects.
So what is actually the case is that Billy is just a happy cat that likes to press random buttons in exchange for attention from his lady.
The interesting part of the video is the people commenting! People are seeing patterns (that are not real), and the human brain is very good at that! There is not a dog to be seen or heard, but everyone is imagining stories that Billy hears or sees dogs that we don't or wants a dog companion or saw a dog yesterday or whatever. Billy is like a living Ouija board! 😄
@@joostdriesens3984 sounds like bias on your part to me. You underestimate the power of adaption I think- a common mistake in the biological sciences. Without running the proper experiments, you nor I can make any claim. You can state what you believe, and correlate research in the past to this, but unless you have research with a cat thats been trained it's whole life in the use of a soundboard like Billi has, I doubt it's relevant.
I mean, there is definite intentionality in her button presses. They're not so random considering she goes out of her way to avoid buttons and searches for specific buttons to press. I'm not saying she's got a strong understanding of language necessarily, but she has definitely shown some degree of pattern recognition. It would be interesting to test how nurture has affected her development, if at all.
I am not dissuaded sir, I still want that cat in a CAT-scan for science!
@@alexrosario423 There is definitely intentionality in her presses. Billy likes pressing buttons.
Billy can even learn single button meanings, like 'food' or 'open door'. However I don't believe (based on scientific findings and my own observations as a big fan of cats) that Billy can learn combinations of concepts, especially if they are abstract (like 'afternoon' or 'noise). It's the same as you and I can never have cat reflexes no matter how early we start learning.
I would recommend the Billy 'rage' video in which she presses the 'mad' button 20 times, but she is perfectly happy as you can see from her normal non-verbal cat communication.
I was thinking about an MRI scan, but now that you mention a CAT scan for the cat, you have convinced me that this indeed is a worthwhile and necessary endeavour! 😄
@@joostdriesens3984 this is interesting. Do you think Billi doesn’t truly understand? She clearly has no concept of sentence structure, which is expected. Noise dog and dog noise would be interchangeable to her. But she does seem to correlate words to common actions or objects. Dogs clearly assign meaning to certain words ‘walk’ ‘treat’ so why wouldn’t Billi be able to request certain things with the button?
@@GoneGrimdark Requesting things with a button or even a couple of buttons (an action sequence) is fine for cats, one can also do it with mice, birds, dogs etc. It's called classical conditioning in Psychology.
However, these videos claim that you can have conversations with your cat and that the creative use of the buttons reveal abstract logic and reasoning that the cat has developed and is now able to express through the buttons. The mistake of projecting our own thoughts and feelings on animals is called 'Anthropomorphism'.
Below is an example of a simple classical conditioning video and is imo a more realistic insight to how cats think and act. It is also super cute :-)
th-cam.com/video/6lp-LPc3LGI/w-d-xo.html
I snort-laughed when she pressed mad 😂 ❤
opening scene: “mad” and dramatically exits.
end scene.
Well we all saw that Mad coming.
Watching an animal brain puzzle out higher order linguistic functions to convey their feelings is so interesting
Reminds me of when young kids first start talking and repeat the same word while they are thinking of how to finish their thought
This is like my dog. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to tell her she lives in a world with cats and needs to cope.
Billi: The stinking furball has disturbed my slumber. It must PERISH!
Did she want to see what was making the noise?
Have you tried modelling a "show noise"? She could walk you to the noise she's referring to
I agree. Enquiring minds want to know what music Billi listens to or more likely deems to be 'noise'.
The tail flip at the end really says it all.
Thank you for sharing your intelligent fur baby with us. I wish I could have taught mine This!
I like how he can use words but needs more time to come up with them, and gets frustrated or distracted meanwhile
Billi has more personality than I do 🥰
🤣🤣🤣
Awwhh!
Hi! I LOVE that you've taught your cat (dog) to speak. :)
Billi, I believe, was asking why the dog was barking, or that Billi wanted to play with the dog. Billu was "mad", by seeing the cues from you, so Billi thought the dog was mad or that you wernt explaining correctly.
Thank u for your care of Billi. Keep up the good work! :)
Billi: It's infuriating when lesser species can't hear the noises I can hear
I was like: okay, how many different noises are there?
Billi wanted to SEE where the dog was, what dog was making the noise. He wanted visuals.
The button-language seems to lack a negation-option. I understand that you can do a lot with "bye" and "all done", but a realistic all-purpose languae need a negation. However, explaining this as a concept can be tricky.
How funny that we all ‘write’ the words on each button instead of putting pictures on them (like you’ve done on the Billi Button)
It wouldn’t solve all problems, but some of them, like Grandma, Dad, day, night, zoom zoom, fan toy, etc.
"Let me at him, mom! Let me at him!"
Maybe she's becoming bilingual, is studying dog as her second language and recognizes the the dog wants something. She is a very smart kitty after all!
Yeah I was thinking maybe she thinks the dog is mad?
I’m absolutely In love with Bili , What a precious SUPER TALENTED kitty..😻❤️😻❤️
It sounded possibly like billie wanted to play with the dog that made the noise or see the dog than for it to be gone
It's interesting. From having a cat, they seem to do that "Want" but without any knowledge of what they want.
They stand by the door and wait to see if that is what they had wanted.
I wonder if there are translation issues, eg a word like "want" or "mad" which are a feeling that is not tied to a thing, but is a firm emotional state.
As humans we rush in and want to be people / cat pleasers and have a belief that finding a thing to solve that want will be productive. Cats don't seem to care what others want.
Some apartments will install an ultrasonic bark deterrent in units with noisy dogs. I was skeptical, but it worked for my dog.
Off course Billi’s mad because mummy doesn’t respond to her “ wants” she pressed want and dog many times.
I truly admire your patience & undivided attention Mom ❤️
next button: 'investigate' or 'defend boundaries'?
Is there any chance Billi wants a new Billi button that is maybe easier to push or the same as the others or something? Anyway adorable as always😻
i love the sketch for a user pic. also my cat doesn't like dog noise, but what he HATES is fireworks.
the last input by the human overwhelmed the cat
I just binged your videos 🥺 Billi is so cute!!
Maybe Billie wants a dog to play with. She is so darn cute and I love her little white glove paws too.
I still want to see what would happen if you had one of the dogs with buttons and Billi together.
As long as someone got them started with the buttons. I wonder how both would react to another animal they could possibly communicate with via the buttons.
@@1TW1-m5i Awesome idea!
The sweetest and smartest kitty! And pretty too. Love these videos. ❤😊
Such a clever Kitty 👍
I think she wants to kill the Dog, but there's no "kill" button ! LOL
I get same feeling Billi craves a button that could fill in the blank concept here. And maybe 'dog' noise is the closest thing she's got to other urban noise like construction hammering. There is the times she knows the microwave beeping is noise; and when it's over Mom is freed from its spell with something good to eat. I'm still a bit fascinated by the idea that I did have the "I wish I knew what my cat is saying" and then I could now get the wish and have to interact with a two-year-old intellect for fifteen or so years. It's another step down that road someone created in a pet food ad campaign of being a 'pet parent.'
She has good hearing.
Billi has made me much more aware of the noises I make for the sake of my upstair neighbor's cat.
@@AuDHDarling she has made me more aware of the noises i make for my cats. like video game volume, now i wear headphones with my games all the time.