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Billi is a female domestic shorthair, she's 12 years old, her favorite word is mad. Inspiration from Hunger4Words (check her out on IG).
Link for buttons, Instagram, and TikTok
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Such an affectionate girl. She has two moods: love you button and mad button
See also: wanting food
Which makes her a stalker.
MAD MAD MAD
@@carolyn2514 that's a lifestyle for her.
That's covered under "mad" x repeatedly haha
Lmao, how fast Billi clicked YES after her mum asked her if she wanted Pets.
Adopt and adult or senior rescue cat 🖤🙏🏻
@@We_Are_All_Vultures I appreciate you trying to make people adopt old cats. But please don't talk about that when it as nothing to do with the comment.
@@gontathegentleman9833 How about this; people can talk about whatever they like, and you just deal with it like an adult, hmmm?
@@MadCapMag Im just saying there somebetter place to talk about that then a random comment section. If they have the right to talk about whatever they want, i can say whatever i want about it.
Also maybe i dont handle this like an adult, but so are you.
@@gontathegentleman9833 I do agree that it's important to encourage people to adopt older cats since they're the ones who need homes the most. It makes sense in the case of these videos because Billi hasn't been using the buttons super long but is picking them up great despite being 12. Most people would assume that you can't train a cat that age at all (even though that's definitely not true, and my cat is even older than Billi and has still been learning things lately.)
Character development is watching Billi favorite word "mad" turn to "love you".
When a cat has more character development then 90% of anime protagonists
@@parsashirali8957 If you want some good character development, check out Re:Zero
I’m invested
Altruistic Lemur virgin season 1 Subaru vs season 2 chadbaru
@@altruisticlemur anime
"what does billi want to do now that I'm home"
the aswer is always food Billie
After pets.
the irony of this is that billi didnt say food in the video
I fully expect a “mad”. Oh well!
@@leschaps2387 why not both at the same time ?
You wanna do food?
this is billi's world we just live in it
periodt
@Panda 😳😳
@@chadwarden8210 gasp! the horror!
shes the main character we're all just supporting cast
I keep hearing the theme to milo murhpy´s law everytime somebody says that lol
I don't have a pet to come home to, this makes me feel so warm and wonderful
I feel you here, i live in a hostel from a university and they don't allow pets :(
Someday, if you're lucky, you'll get a pet best friend someday too.
@@drahprub7750 During those times I have to destroy the entire farm.
I have a cat. Its a love hate relationship. The other day I caught her attempting to bite my leg but I caught her mid act and she tried to play it off like it was nothing.
Get one
People: Cats are so heartless
Billie: Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you. Play
I thought cats were just aloof, stuck-up creatures until God sent several strays my way. Wow, was I ever wrong! They are brilliant, loving beings for whose friendship I am eternally grateful!
@@karinlyle5378 yeah, never judge a book by its cover i guess. Cats seem unemotional, but it's just their emotions being very different from ours.
wow i’m crying
People are dumb.
@@juliebraden6911 umb
The chemistry between you and Billi is very wholesome. Please continue to make more videos. My wife and I have become invested in the adventurous life of Billi and we cant stop watching.
Same :D
Shes getting so smart
@David Dieni how dare you
@David Dieni -_-
@David Dieni get off your moms computer..
Imagine dating a girl, and she finally takes you to her home. You see a big button pad on the floor, and she shows you her cat having conversations with it. I would legit fall in love that moment.
Id like it alot lol
Well as long as the other things were covered or out of the way I should add lol
Adorable. And hot.
Where are all the men who'd appreciate a girl like this?? Most of the guys I meet only like dogs, let alone would appreciate all of the puzzle boxes and toys I have for my cat, lol.
@@deprofundis3293 I don't think there are very many of us left. I was going to say something about how good women are just as hard to find, but my buddy was with his girl, and his rm knocked on the car window for a lighter, then started joking with my boy's girl... Like they haven't even zipped up yet... And then I realized why women think men are monsters. Dating in America is toxic AF, but I still hold on to hope that someone is out there for all of us.
Some people: cats doesn't love humans, they are selfish!
Cats:
This comment format is painfully unfunny
“Aggressive pets”
😂🤣
@@HyJENNist yeah lol 😂
Show this video to any heathen who doesn’t believe that cats can feel affection towards humans
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@@sometard8156 😂 best reply ive seen in awhile 10/10 would read again
I'm glad I'm not the only one who leaves their cat toys sticking out of the couch like that.
I do that too! :D
Same. Except they're never in the couch when I come back home 😂
@@SomeSortOfWay lol 😂
Always. lol
It's absolutely amazing to see Billi's response time improve over time, in addition to her vocabulary. This is doctrate thesis work you're doing, and to think it's with a 12-year old cat is incredible.
Yep! That's exactly how these buttons got introduced, when the owner of dog Stella, a speech pathologist, wondered if they could teach their dog to 'talk'
Well, research like this has been done over and over again using all sorts of animals, chimps, orangutans, sometimes other mammals. The conclusion is almost always that the animals are not learning language or meaning. They are nott able to string words together, whats happening is they are associating a word with a command, much like a dog learning to sit or stay. Whats most likely happened is the cat is learning the types of attention that it gets by hitting the i love you button, pets and love and attention. Adorable, yes, ground breaking, no.
@@elisha7231 these animals have also been learning abstract concepts and descriptions, especially when they cant remember the word for a certain feeling or item. its not just word association. hell, we've lived alongside them for thousands of years, they've obviously gotten some form of communication down. knocking down the intelligence of other animals is not the way to go, especially when its been proven that they can learn and grow from the basics of communication. it would be great to see what this develops into.
@@radioseal37 im sorry but no. Im not "knocking down their intelligence". Its been proven over and over again that it IS just word association. If you want to hope for more thats fine. But fido does not understand the words your saying to him.
@@Michellok786 Yes, but we already knew they could do this, they take comands all the time. They arnt able to understand a language though. Its word association, they are very diffrent things.
This is so cute! Just out of curiosity, how do you model the “hmm?” button? “This turns a statement into a question” seems like a really complex concept to try and get across
It kinda seems like shes waiting for an answer when she does that. And if billie knows he’ll get whatever he wants right after the hmm maybe he just goes off that.
@@jlc1833 Billi is a female
@@Ikajo k thx didnt know
Might help to tilt her head in the way cats sometimes do when confused. After a while, Billi just associates "hmm?" with uncertainty...
possibly just making an incomplete sentence makes billi want to correct it?
'where go [hmmm]' and if Billi ever responds with 'outside' that gets a reward? it seems easier to train than 'love you'. Tbf.
The people who do this with dogs have tutorials on how to do it, hungerforwords, i think is the first of these expirements.
I'm surprised Billi can reorient herself with the new buttons every time you add or move them?
Special memory is really difficult so good on Billie lol
Cats have good conditional and spatial memory.
Billi has turned into genius. She’s like “do I love her?”
Maybe she was asking her if her owner loved her? She had left the house so maybe Billi thought she should ask.
@@edithnackers7127 maybe but billi does have a Mom button she could’ve used that too
@@lilytheechidna6564 Good point. I forgot about that button. I wish I knew what she was truly thinking.
@@edithnackers7127 we all do don’t we like how my kitty sits at the door that leads to a 10 foot drop like she wants to go out
Next up
Billi: "what is love" "is love real"
“Mad, mad, mad, mad” to “love you”
To be fair she probably still uses “Mad” because she understands it as a way to say she is unhappy/dissatisfied with something but her guardian isn’t recording that lately or at least isnt posting it. And they seem to still be incorporating new words to the mats so that’s probably more interesting than just rehashing Billie pointing out what she doesnt like about a current situation. Still its very cool and very sweet to see “I Love You” getting use regularly and Billie expressing affection in a very communicative way!
She probably hided "mad" button.
Or maybe Billi thinks „mad” means a ton, a lot.
"what does billi want to do now that I'm home"
Billi:
Billi: *loading algorithm*
@@Monty2289 Billi: *Bill.exe is missing or corrupted. please reboot*
She doesn't want anything. She is just happy that mom is home.
Im so happy this channel is growing. You and Billi deserve it. She is just the sweetest. I know people like to anthropomorphize these kinds of videos, but the fact that Billi really chooses with intention, and seems to know what she wants and where the button is to tell you really is amazing. These videos brighten up my day. I look forward to them every day. Thank you for sharing Billi with us.
I think she needs an “I missed you!” button 😄❤️🐈
Billi has two moods:
Love you and MAD, MAD, MAD
Lol
She looks so cute, and so happy lol
Pets?
Yes.
Billi: you love me, yes?
Me: Absolutely, Billi, I love you very much.
At least buy me some dinner first
It's so wholesome that she wants to play first thing when you come home!
Knowing you'd just come home makes it all the sweeter that she's using "Love You". Obv there's no way to check that she understands the concept of love, but my anthropomorphism thinks it can be assumed at the very least that this is a positive show of affection.
i would argue it's anthropomorphic to assume she *doesn't* understand the concept of love. humans are animals, after all, and emotions aren't limited to homo sapiens! especially given cats are colony animals, where some form of emotional connection to each other would be (i assume) evolutionarily advantageous ^_^
@@elfinvale Sure, the question is how much does Billi understand that that button means affection, and how much is our confirmation bias. Still, cute videos and there's plenty of cases where Billi does seem to be chaining thoughts and ideas
@@marsf6080 watched a lot of videos of pets with buttons and my inner skeptic is really agitated.
Is it staged, as in did they try it over and over until the pet manages a response that 'makes sense'
It's the kind of thing that I will probably doubt until I witness it live or find some actual studies.
Especially considering that scientists and trainers spend years to teach apes the kind of vocabulary that those cats and dogs seemingly grasp in months or a year, including abstract concepts.
@@boooster101 Apes can literally communicate in sign language, why is it so hard to believe dogs and cats are able to associate meaning with sounds? They're probably remembering the sound of the buttons. I've been training my 2 year old cat since she was a kitten. She sits and waits for her turn to eat when I say Wait. If she wants me to open the door she puts a paw on my arm, I'll ask her, Door? and she'll walk to the door to confirm. If she doesn't walk off I'll change and ask her, Pets? and she'll rub her head against my hand to confirm. When I spot a lizard/gecko on the wall (she loves them) I say Lizard, Come! she knows exactly what I'm talking about, jumps out of bed and follows me to look for the lizard. Ofc she understands the usual Hungry?, No!, Come Play! commands. I don't have doubts that my cat would probably be able to learn the buttons if I bothered to put in the effort, so this vid it's totally believable to me.
@@KryaDiere I have a cat and had a dog. Yes, they absolutely can associate meaning with sounds, geez.
But there is a huge difference between your pet associating the word "food" with getting food and the kind of sentences these videos often portray, sometimes with apparently changed meaning of the words and basic grammar.
Again, I'm not saying it's impossible, I'd just really love to see studies under controlled conditions to rule out any tampering or just good old plain coincidence.
And I don't consider it bad to think critically. It's not like I'm straight up accusing them of fraud. It's amazing and that's why I want it to be true. But also with some third party evidence.
PS:
Don't conflate apes with cats and dogs. It's just a different level of sentience as far as we know.
Billi is so smart and she is really getting quick with the buttons. I feel like it used to take her a few minutes to chose a button but now she knows exactly which buttons she wants to use.
I love this channel.
You can tell when she's thinking really hard, because her tail swishes slowly but aggressively. Her tail goes really fast and low when she's mad, so you see the difference in body language.
I think Billi's "love you hmm?" was asking for love.
People describe cats as not social 🙄
so ridiculous, especially cuz they're colony animals lol. whatls more social than living in that kind of environment???
I recently just realized house cats are actually social lol
now whenever i see hexagon objects I can't not think "hexagons are the bestagons"
I understood that reference!
They fill space so nicely!
As you should :)
Better than those wannabe triangles smh
You can't fool me. She's only that loving because of the drugs on her buttons
Lol
If I had a cat, I now for sure how I'd spend all my money
on worms? buttons? catnip..?
Yes
Same. If I ever get a cat again, I'm getting a hundred buttons.
@@kisnpisn4919 lol!
Which is appropriate because any kind of nice bed or space you buy them, they will make it a point to NOT use it.
I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one who thought "if I stick a cat toy wand in the cushion, then they can play even if I'm not there"
This is making my day!
I feel like she wasn't responding because she didn't want pets, she wanted to mark. She answered with play as a second thing she wanted because there's no word for marking you.
It could be that was attempted with "love you" to use marking as a display of affection
Or she was just thinking "I don't have to press a button for this; you're already doing it! "
Maybe that's why she said "Love you, hmm?" Maybe it was like asking if she could love on her. Like "can I love you?" for "can I mark you?"
Who knows. There's a lot of theories behind the "hmm?" in the comments, including theories that she just did it on accident.
Or maybe she just presses random buttons, and sometimes she gets pets, sometimes she gets to play, sometimes she gets food, sometimes she gets to go out... and she just goes with whatever happens. The idea that she's formulating a specific desire and then articulating that desire via this buttons is absolute nonsense. Or at least, there's no evidence of that in the videos
@@domcoke You can justify saying that there's not sufficient evidence to justify belief, perhaps, but saying there's "no evidence" isn't justifiable if you're using the word "evidence" honestly. In this video we just watched, Billi pressed "love you" to her human companion twice, and then aggressively marked that human companion. These two things are congruent enough to constitute some degree of evidence--Doesn't mean you should necessarily regard it as conclusive enough to make you confident, but you're simply wrong to declare the idea absurd.
*Mother, why did you leave me? I've been pressing the food button for 2 hours but to no avail!*
I expected “what billi want hmmm?” To be answered “food”
Wow! She is getting so conversant!! ❤️
Maybe bili is asking if u love her
This lady and her cat have better communication skills than with me and my mom 😭
fun fact : In Hindi, Cats are called "Billi"
She's came a long way from Mad,Mad,Mad
Aww 🥰 I love Billi I want to hug 🤗 her
Same
she's so cute and happy I can't stand it
Lol
eventually this cat is going to teach a masterclass
No sorry that's not allowed YET because the only thing thats allowed to be smart on planet earth -
(until singularity happens) are full blooded humans unfortunately , and idk when that will happen? Elon said 5-10 yrs if he's right? ......but we will have to wait for that day to come, but if? or when it does, I guess your right lol.
A masterclass in the degree to which humans project meaning onto arbitrary button presses...??? I'd sure like to see that masterclass
the absolute pile of catnip on the hextiles... Billi was zooted for this
Billi is so much better at expressing herself than me lolol
I love watching your videos, always looking forward to them!
aren't you basically enabling the cat to command you by pressing a button? xD
Pretty sure this video proves that these buttons are worthless for communication.
Yep
I am so glad I found this channel. Billi's progress is incredible and I can't wait to get a set to help communicate with my cat 😭
How do you reinforce that something is a question?
I pause after asking her the question, then in the beginning would model possible answers.
I love how she really sits there, thinking about what she wants to say next.😍
BILLI :D
She’s getting so good at it!
Practice makes puuurfect lol.
Thank you for shooting in landscape
MY POOR FRIGGEN HEART. WHAT A SWEETY
These cats are pressibg random buttons there is no proof that they understand anything the buttons say. You can act like your speaking to a cat as much as you want but you just look insane. Lmao people are fucking nuts.
"Love you -- HMM?" means "Do you love me, Mommy?"
Billi just wants you to love her. Not necessarily to play or pet, just say "I love you, Billy" really really sincerely and maybe hold her.
Another comment chain speculated that it might not be a question in the classic sense, as a query for information, possibly instead being a cue for Mom to respond. Not a massive difference in end usage, but a huge change mechanically.
Either one is interesting to observe though.
Maybe when billi press the “love you” and “hmm?” Button. He’s asking you if you love him 🥺
Good cat mom 💛💛💛
Oh hi there Billi! I just watched TheDodo's video about you ;)
Cute kitty! :3
That one dislike is from Billi herself Bc you’ve exposed this side of her on the internet 🤣😼
MAD
Snuggle button. 🐾.
Looots o love
BILLY ASKED A QUESTION!!!
When she said "love you, hmm?" I think that was her asking "Do you love me back?"
KITTIES ARE SO INTELLIGENT
Yeah Bubbles knows whats up
Billi: "Love you"
I think Billi got younger instead of older 😂💖
Pretty pic u got there
Referring to the clouds and nature, not the hooter ,.... parden me lol.
Seeing Billi happy is good for the soul
idk, i'm still not convinced that this is anything more than just randomness with some rudimentary behavior/response patterns. Cute cat though!
She's so cute and clearly enjoys having you around.
Dog lover: cats don't love their owners!!
Me: shows them this video
Wow that is so cool that Billi presses the buttons even without looking at them. When she pressed "play" she was looking at her Mom so she obviously knows the play button well! :)
hilarious how people think this is their pets talking to them. its curiosity and nothing more with some association around the 'food button'
My kitten has always ignored the computer up until now. Usually she just attacks my hands. This time, she jumped up on the keyboard and gave Billi "pets"! I really need to invest in those buttons. She's only 5 months old, and she already responds to lots of things that I say to her.
Aw
Does she actually understand what she's saying?
My advice: move into a bigger flat so that Billi can entertain herself when you are away, and quit your job so that you can produce more videos :)
Crazy cat people know no bounds...
Lol
thats not "play worm", thats called "cat fishin". well, you atually need a small rod and reel with any kind of lure at the end to be legit cat fishin though...
I do wonder how you approached teaching her “Love you”? I want to teach my cats to say it 😅
I model it whenever I feel love for her (so frequently 😂). When we’re cuddling, after pets, after food, when she’s being cute, before I leave and when I come home, etc.
@@BilliSpeaks that’s fair enough. It would definitely be my most-used button 🥰
I honestly dont think they know what this stuff means, like I dont think a cat could learn what love means like I just dont see a cat literally learning language and being able to "say" and understand the word love. It probably thinks, when I press this button, person pets me or gives me treats. I just cant see cats having a vocabulary part of their brain cuz they literally cant use vocabulary.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who puts those sticks in between the couch cushions when I’m busy 😂
Keeps them out of the vacuum cleaner. 😁
Just wait. One day if you add enough words she is going to repeat her true intentions.
"So Billi, what do you want today?"
Billi: "I. Want. Flesh. And. Blood. Of. The. Innocent."
I am only going to be worried if your answer would be something like:
"Same like yesterday or this time medium?"
So cute ❤
I wanna marry this woman. I don't care what she looks like. I already love her by listening to her. If she is married, then I'm just cursed ...
Yup, doctor. Right about the third "Love you" from Billi, that's when my heart expanded 3 sizes out of pure cuteness.
i see Billi was having a catnip party
Yeah sometimes a cat will sit down and enjoy there imaginary friends and relationships, after enjoying catnip.
billi has such a galaxy brain we love her
You should learn to understand her language, this is so sad.
Awwwq, Billi is so cute and smart!
personification is so strong that you people think this cat actually can talk. she keeps pressing pets but obviously doesn't actually want to be petted. she's still looking for the food button that gets her food
I keep thinking. How did you trained her with MAD button? 🤔
simple, when billi wasn't showing signs of feeling any particular way or needing anything in particular, she was trained to depress the mad button, as anger is a cat's default emotion
@@themaidenlesswretch7819 Lol.
@Amrit: When cats are upset, you can mostly see that in their body language. Staring, swishing tail, etc. So when Billi showed these signs of anger, her owner would model "mad".
I could have 100 different buttons, if one of them was "Food" my cat would spam that shit all day.
How has the cat learned the "i love you" button means love?
It could mean to the cat "give me attention"
To a cat there's not much difference.
All the buttons could mean "give me attention". That's what happens when any button is pressed.
My cat "Little man" is watching this and thinking...don't even try this with me Human 😏
Billi's tiny feet amuse me so much
What I like most about this channel is that now I know for sure that my educated guesses about my elderly cats needs throughout the many, many years were accurate and true and that even if she could speak people we would have the same relationship.
Good to know I have done right by my cat.
That's all I ever really wanted and I can sleep well tonight.
Amazing!
I have fallen in love with this kitty!!! No doubts about it!!!!
"He's beginning to believe"
- Morpheus
Why not just learn cats body language cues? That's how cats communicate.
Not first pog
But... but you are first
@@lovebirddraws8475No he's not
@@megadeth116 oh, right lol