Billi Would Like Me To Turn The Rain Off | BilliSpeaks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2024
- I can control many things in Billi’s environment, but rain unfortunately isn’t one of them 😭
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Billi is a female domestic shorthair, she's 15 years old, her favorite word is mad.
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well you control the shower inside, you can't blame her for thinking that you also control the showers OUTSIDE
Fair point 😹
Plus, you can control light and darkness. From Billy's (or any other cat's) point of view, it shouldn't be any more difficult to turn off the falling water!
Mom work no help outside 🤷♀️
My cat knows I can make the sun appear by lifting up the blinds, so I'm pretty sure he also thinks I'm to blame when there's no sun because it's cloudy. He looks at me and meows as if to say, "Mom, you must be doing something wrong! Can't you lift the blinds up higher and make the sun come out?!"
Haha. We don't have buttons for our cat, but she yowls when it's too cold, too hot, rainy, probably demanding that we do something about the weather 😂
Like every good meteorologist Billi’s required to pointlessly stand in the rain for a while when there’s a big storm. It’s the law.
Billi Cantori reporting live from her patio…
@nancyanne1402 My mom used to watch The Weather Channel nonstop and this made me laugh out loud
My fluffy black cat goes out in the rain gets fully soaked then sits on me to dry off
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“My breasts can tell when it’s raining”
I just love that Mom has her YT award down on the floor at Billi eye-level!
Of course! Billi deserves to look at her achievements 😹
🥰@@BilliSpeaks Of course, but she couldn't have done it without you!
@@BilliSpeaks Yeah - I hope Her Madge credited you, at least!
That's Billi's award. Silly Rita
It's Billi's award!
Our cat would go to a different door in the hope it wouldn't be raining that side of the house. My mother always said he blamed us for bad weather.
Mine too! If they didn't like the weather at one door, they would go to the other door - always expecting a different result. Never worked out for them!
In a tragic way, it kinda makes sense that our pets blame us for the weather. Everything inside the house is under our control. We control feeding time, trips to the vet, outdoor play time, visits to the dog park or walks outside, changing litter boxes, adding or removing furniture, adjusting the temperature inside, treats, and pets. Then, when our pets go outside and the weather isn't perfect, their owners are the first target of, "I don't like this weather. Go change it." And they don't understand that we can't stop rain or snow.
Mine would go to the front door, then to the back door and then back to the front door. There was a little spot out the front door that always stayed dry. He would often spend a few minutes there before wanting back inside.
Mine too. But he asks we stop rain.
He also want we make the snow diseapair and get the temperarure higher.
Our pets comfort is better than ours even during sumer when bf has air at 80 when it's hotter outside cats are happy but I'm miserable but worth it
As much as the buttons helped Billi communicate some of what she was thinking, it's also fair to say that the airplane ears and switching tail also communicated plenty to us.
what did it say?
@@yanfei917angy
Yeah... She's pissed.
My beloved first cat used to demand to check the back door when it was raining at the front door, hoping for a different result. She always seemed upset to discover rain was everywhere. Bless her. She lived for 20 years and was still going out every day to patrol the garden in her last months.
There is the aptly named science fiction book named "Door into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein. It's no wonder a cat is involved in that story ;).
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That is a beautiful life
Cats, unlike dogs and other animals lack “object permanence.” Hence why they check multiple doors- and check their empty bowl of food multiple times.
For example: if I enter the kitchen through the hallway- and there is no food… maybe if I enter through the living room into the same kitchen, there will be food!
Totally expected that "Mad" button to get pressed! 🤣
Yeah! Kinda disappointed that she didn't. 😸
I expected "water outside all done".
@@Juleru That would have been awesome! 😄
Her Madjesty doesn’t walk back to the camera so much as she STALKS back. As in MAD.😂
I think she knows Mom can’t stop the rain, so she doesn’t want to express her frustration to someone who can’t do anything about it lol
No mad button press. I was shocked. 😂
Me too! But the face said it all so 🤷🏼♀️
Me 2!
@@BilliSpeaks That tail twitch tho. MAD!
So mad the button doesn't express it enough
@@BilliSpeaks did the number of "mad"s go down lately or are you just not showing them off as often anymore?
My cat used to want the window open when it rained, and sit inside and watch it. Best of both worlds.
Aw ❤
Smart Kitty.
My cats do that all the time...unless there's thunder. If there's a thunderstorm they hang out under my bed
Cats know what's good.
@@bar9092I hope you invite them to hang out on the bed with you
I expected... "water" "outside" "all done"... "mad".
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"Raindrops keep falling on my back..." 🎤- Billy, probably.
“Blame it on the rain!” 📼🔊
Hey, I know that song!
Hehehe 🤭
"But that doesn't mean I will soon be pressing 'mad'"
Dad would do it. Dad would stand outside holding an umbrella over Billi, like the good servant he is. 😸
I tried something like that with my cat and it didn't work well. I needed to get some stuff from my car. I had an umbrella and he followed me part way and then bolted back towards the house.
@@kensmith5694 There is another youtuber that trained his dog to hold a little umbrella it his mouth. He seems to love it.
Not so shure about that... 🤔 He was there, we could see his socks. 😁 Seemed to prefer to stay inside, though - every love has its limits, I guess! 😉 Sharing his scallops for example, as witnessed in a previous video... 🤷🏼♀️
@@davidvondoom2853I was just watching Nate and Minion!
@@CelesticCF That's the one! lol
Oh, that glare! 😾
Our Billi, trying to subdue the rain by grooming it into compliance... ✊
I wish I had videoed her outside, she was so upset it kept coming back 😹
@@BilliSpeaks - But, would Billi have allowed such indignities to be witnessed...? 🤔
HEARTBREAKING: Human REFUSES to turn of weather
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Two cats my mother had did the same thing. God forbid we had a week of continuous rain..
I love when Cats want something, you let them do it and then when it goes wrong somehow unrelated to you they give the disgusted glare like "how could you let this happen?".
Rest in Power, sweet Billi.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Try an old chair with a cheap plastic tablecloth over it. It makes for a simple, but effective 'rain tent' that our cats used to love. Seems to scratch their itch to be outside, while providing a dry place to hang out, even if it's not see-through (they can still smell and hear outside, I guess).
Of course since Billi isn't allowed out alone, you'll still be getting wet, but... I can't help with that one.
Haha! I’ll just build my own tent I suppose 😹
@@BilliSpeaksThat's an awesome idea, Kendra. I love your spirit. You're a when one door closes, so what... I'll find another way kind of girl. Love that!
@@BilliSpeaks You can buy/obtain the plastic that is sometimes used for the rear window on a convertible car. It is very clear and somewhat think so it stays unwrinkled. I would suggest that and a plastic sawhorse or outdoor table. You can make a space that is protected from the rain but also open for vision so she can see her domain.
I've seen clear plastic tablecloths at the dollar store.
Billi needs a raincoat.
That was my second thought -- she wants to go out but not get her back wet. Wet paws aren't a problem(?)
shed look so cute in a kitty raincoat
@BilliSpeaks Suggest to have it knitted and lightly felted from non-superwash wool. Wool is water repellent and light felting makes it more so-- the elastic structure of knitted fabric moves with the body-- and cats love cuddling with wool, unlike crinkly noisy hot plastic raincoat fabric : ) Any experienced knitter could make one, as plain or as colorfully embellished as Billi would like! Although undyed straight from the sheep and washed with unscented soap might please Billi most of all. As one of Billi's virtual aunties I'd be happy to volunteer to knit and finish one to her measurements, or you could ask around on the "Ravelry" site
Naw. Billi would tell you (if she had the buttons for it) that she needs a pavilion, with a fan and suspended "fan toy" in the center, fully staffed to provide pets and food as needed. Really, her needs and tastes are very simple .... 😸
When I was at University, one of my professors had a beloved little terrier. I can still remember her walking across campus in the rain with him. He was trotting along in a plaid raincoat, plaid galoshes, and a tiny umbrella that attached to the collar. It was the cutest, most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.😂❤😂
She must've han an important errand to run.
Looking for clams! That she can harvest! And eat!
My cat when she was younger would meow to go out, then look up at the sky and meow at me in a way that I could tell she was demanding I make the rain go away.
Reminded me of a little girl who thinks her dad can do everything and just doesn't want to.
Billi obviously thinks you're a Goddess, capable of weather control. It's kind of a compliment.🌧🌂
I was genuinely surprised by the second request. Silly girl 😂
RIP, Sweet Billi.
I miss Billi. I miss seeing her push the mad button. 😢
That's hilarious) And she said "Mrhh" when you asked! 🤯😍
The "thinking circles" are so interesting, given how universal they seem to be among button using animals.
I think it is simular to fidgeting in humans, as they might be thinking more deeply than what they usually do...
Oh this came into my feed. It made me miss Billie so much! I cried a little. We can keep enjoying her on YT. Hugs and Love, I bet you miss her so much. Love her personality.
Tbh I expected “outside, water, all done … mad” lol
Billi: just turn the faucet off, mom
Billi, I know how you feel. I feel that way about the cold. Can't someone just turn this crap off? 🤣
Lookit at those airplane ears when she comes back inside. LOL
My parents had t shirts made for their retirement so when people asked what they were going to do with their free time, the shirts said it all. “Let the dogs out. Let the dogs in. Let the dogs out” all over 🤣🤗. Billi, you are the kick in the but I needed to learn more about my cat’s intellect. She’s scary smart. We work with some props but mostly me being super attentive to her responses. Sometimes we get into fights yelling at each other 🤭. The neighbors know I’m a little odd.
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That’s hilarious 😹😹😹
Just love revisiting and rewatching these precious clips of Billi! Rest in peace Billi!
"Mother, you ruined outside! What were you thinking?!?!"
The audacity of that rain!
Billi: "It is a source of misery and despair, and I shall call it 'outside water.'"
"Come on mum! Why you haven't fixed the sky yet?"
I swear one of our cats thought my mother could turn the sun on like the lights in the house 😂 he’d go up on his “perch” in the window, and when it was cloudy he would yell!
I find it fascinating that with all the intelligence Billi shows, it seems she and many of her kind can’t differentiate between natural and built worlds. That somehow their humans control all things, whether inside or outside. 🤔
my oldest does this! he's 100% solar powered and will yell at the clouds
Billi didn't have a button for umbrella :)
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She trotted to the door with you with such hope. 😢😂
She was too upset to even press the “mad” button
Has Billi ever been in snow? My "master" wants no part of rain but, he loves rolling around in the snow!
lol that mad look is hilarious ❤
The "Mad" is no-o-o-ot enough.
Billi said it can't rain all the time!
This reminds me of the Sci-Fi book “The door into summer” by Robert A Heinlein where a the cat, Pete hates to go outdoors into snow.
"Stoopid human cant switch off the big tap outside?" *MAD*
- Billi, probably 🤣🤣🤣
I'm about ready for Rain All Done myself, Billi!
It's amazing how much credit they give us.
Rain brings up smells from the ground, and my cat likes to sit at the door and sniff the "outside smells" too!
"While still a kitten, all fluff and buzzes, Pete had worked out a simple philosophy. I was in charge of quarters, rations, and weather; he was in charge of everything else. But he held me especially responsible for weather. Connecticut winters are good only for Christmas cards; regularly that winter Pete would check his own door, refuse to go out it because of that unpleasant white stuff beyond it (he was no fool), then badger me to open a people door.
"He had a fixed conviction that at least one of them must lead into summer weather. Each time this meant that I had to go around with him to each of eleven doors, hold it open while he satisfied himself that it was winter out that way, too, then go on to the next door, while his criticisms of my mismanagement grew more bitter with each disappointment.
"Then he would stay indoors until hydraulic pressure utterly forced him outside. When he returned the ice in his pads would sound like little clogs on the wooden floor and he would glare at me and refuse to purr until he had chewed it all out...whereupon he would forgive me until the next time.
"But he never gave up his search for the Door into Summer."
-Robert A. Heinlein, The Door into Summer
Loved that book
Oh dear, same here - my cat often assumes that if he goes out of a different door the rain won't be there after all.
One of mine led me from one door to the other... front, back, basement and was highly agitated that I kept opening the door on rain.
Her ears at the end lol! She's so mad!! 😂
Too bad you didn't have your phone with you so her fans could see the shenanigans of her smelling and then walking out into the rain and back inside again, but your play-by-play was almost as good to those of us who have been following y’all for a while and can imagine her body language and reactions. 😅
No condemnation meant at all. I’m just spoiled with the fact that you usually do have that phone at the ready, and it’s just me posting my wishful thinking. ❤
I know 😩 I was mad at myself for not having it with me! It was still too cute not to share though lol
@@BilliSpeaks Oh for sure it was too cute not to share, and like I said, " your play-by-play was almost as good." 😂
If you try hard enough, that water has to stop - or so she hoped.
Billi figured it stopped. Then decided she would go out anyway. I truly expected the mad button. Poor Billi…❤❤❤
That final look was priceless. 😂
I was honestly expecting the “Mad” button from Billi and to hear your husband chuckling from the kitchen at your conversation with her.
Poor MADjesty... My niece dog wishes the same thing, but she's storm anxious, not an angry empress like Billi.💖
"Look, you're the human - turn the water off! And the birds chirping and warm sun back on!" 😂 Ah... Billi, we're going to miss you. 😢
Those ears back at the end are the cherry on top 😾
Billi clearly needs a catio so she can stay dry but still be outside.
That's assuming that Billi's parents have the space, time, AND money for such a thing!
I’m laughing at how mad she is. Poor baby.
She was hoping that by sheer will it would stop raining. It's like when you stand in the grocery aisle and keep hoping that if you look at the shelf hard enough the item will magically appear.😂
That is the best title, ever. In the history of mankind.
My cats did this with the snow. "Mom, make the snow stop."
SouloftheSphinx - Our cats, too...and they look from the rain, to me, to the rain again, as if saying "Moooooom, turn it off now!" 😹
Honestly I never get tired of those eyes.❤❤❤❤❤
I know a cat who learned what a towel would do to him whenever he came home very wet. :)
I cant believe shes gone....
With that title I expected „water outside all done want“
I let my cats go outside in the rain a couple times. They would go out look around, feel the reason drops, then run back in and I'd say "told ya so"!
The laid-back ears get me every time 😅
Billi needs... a kitty slicker!
I'll see myself out
Cats will try every door in the house, looking for the "door into summer".
Billi is such a character!! Love her so much!! My girls and boy aren't fans of the rain either but a couple of them like going outside on their harness to explore the snow! Lol!
That's my cat lol. He be like, "do something about the weather outside stat".
No need for words or buttons, the ears say it all
So you're saying Billi doesn't bless the rains down in her yard? 😂
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She's just looking for the door into summer
Billi works so hard to communicate and clearly paces and thinks. All these videos are so freakin cool. Thank you for sharing!
My cat Mike (rip Buddy) used to do this every single time it rained or snowed. We'd let him out, he'd decide he didn't like the weather, come back in, and then fifteen minutes later would be begging to go out again. When he'd come back in he'd be glaring at us like "why can't you turn it off?" Buddy, that's not how the weather works, lol!
This is like someone continously trying to eat their food while its still boiling hot
"Billi, Mom can do a lot of things, but she can't control the weather."
My cats try to get me to change the weather too. If it is raining in the front door, they have to check the back and side doors too. Then they forget that they have already checked the front door and have to check it again. Then they get angry if I just ignore them.
Billi is looking for the Door Into Summer, 😂.
'Later', 'later', 'later', many 'later's from now, sorry Billi.
Very appropriate for Groundhog Day. Billi stepped out and didn't see her shadow. That means an early spring, so a few less 'later's hopefully.
May Billi find the Door Into Summer very many laters from now...
I have been informed by my cat, Pixel, that my service as a sub cat cretin of the opposable thumb persuasion is sub par due to my inability to alter weather patterns.
Billi is determined to go outside but YUK, it's wet! My cat Meggy was similar. When she saw it was raining out the front door, she made me follow her to the back door to check there -- maybe it wouldn't be raining out the back door. Ug, disappointed! The wheels were turning in her head, worth a try, LOL!
Billi was dissa-paw-nted that the rain does not have a button to make it stop.
Whenever it rained and it was loud, my cat would follow me around yelling at me.
She looks SO mad! 😂
Denial, it's not just a river, but in this case it's just as wet.
Billi's smart. She knows if she grooms herself after being rained on, she will get a drink at the same time!
The Call of the Wild ... Who doesn't seem to realize it's raining!
I sit in a lawn chair in the garage when it rains so I can relate to Billi. Rain is just so soothing and relaxing.
You're so patient with her 😂
When I get mad I think about Billie's a year of mad buttons 😅😂😂😂
Ahh, that time that Mom and Dad forgot to renew the subscription to the weather control service.
I love Billi!
I knew my cants understood me and that they were intelligent, but after seeing this for a couple of years it has given me a whole new perspective of animals. I guess I knew it, but this sets in stone. I watched the dog Bunny talk via buttons first, before I discovered this channel, and I follow all your progress and communications with a big smile. It helps me with my cat (Im down to only one) and it makes me happy. Thank you for this, keep up all the awesome work with you beautiful kitty -BIG kudos to your lovely guy there, Billys love I think... ❤
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve had the “outside? okay but you’re not gonna like it!” exchange with my cat
Yes, Bill and I and a couple of hundred million people would like you to work on figuring out how to turn the rain off. Please let us know when this has been resolved and we will send you pre-paid labels so you can distribute the rain on/off buttons to those interested. Thanks!
Cloud seeding, but it's illegal.