you spelled "demands" wrong ;)

She was probably frustrated, so she said "mad".

@@namenloses95 it doesn’t say demands anywhere?

The 50 iq kitty it frickin adorable

@@BisexualPlagueDoctor that's the joke, they probably meant that 'wishes' should be replaced with 'demands'

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Ouch, noise, later >:3

I watched that vid so many times 😁

I think about it every time my daughter blasts Hamilton while taking a shower. I don’t think Billi would like anything about that!

I knew you were gonna put that Hamilton video in this montage

extraordinary mad😂😂yhh it's possible tho

Man that was a fun thing to imagine lol. Thanks.

hahahaha the hashtags tho

That's mad ouch

Billi the 'mad' scientist

Me too 😂 she pressed “mad” today and I was like awww nostalgia!

@@BilliSpeaks 😂

@@BilliSpeaks 😆🤣😂🥰

I mean it's technically true, cuz her tail goes wild

I mean that is what the tail moving like that typically means regards of kitty body language!

As I commented on the Dodo’s video about Billi: I love how Billi is constantly teetering on the line between looking like a wise elder with amazing knowledge, and looking like she has wii music playing in her head 24/7 xD

deep thought

Riiight???!!!! 🤣😂

@@irishuisman1450 ah the Wii music comment. I couldn’t think of a better description for her look, well done!

@@sleinzer2302 thanks xD

And it shall be called “Mad!”

Mad, Happy Billi? Owners survival guide to a happy Billi? I like the one above too

Great channel name 😊

Narrated by the buttons on Audible!

Mad Later Look

I wish I could find a contractor that interprets "soon" like that. :)

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soon is like 2 minutes for bili, if she’s in a good mood

3 week day or working day or 3 days = 72 working hours i.e. 9 work days i.e. 2 weeks?

Three days would be quick for Florida.

Crazy it’s only been a year right?!

Same. I thought it was the kind of thing you had to start as a kitten.

My thoughts exactly, such a progress in such a relatively short period - amazing

@@BilliSpeaks I too was impressed on how quickly Billi could use words.

@@ashleywalker3813 and to think, Billi is a senior kitty too! She was 11 or 12 when she started with the buttons.

Oh, yes, Mimi! I wish I could do this with my furballs.

give dogs the right to vote

It’s so incredibly exciting, yes. I really hope more people try this with their pets.

I agree! I'm currently not able to get a pet, but when I can finally get myself a cat again, I plan to train them to use these buttons right away. I struggle enough to read nonverbal cues on *humans* lmao, I'd love to allow my future cat to communicate exactly what they're thinking and feeling to me.

Hi ! I’m trying it with my cat too ! It’s not easy, but he already understood he has to press the button ! The problem is, he still don’t press it… he just put the paw on it… then I press it for him… until he presses the button…

We can only be so lucky

What walks on two legs and is never arund when you need it. A can opener! probably gonna be human memes

@@Quast what comes next human music?

"later noise" was pretty good to. She wants a break from the music.

"Mad ouch later" sounds like a threat

Yes, such as using repetitive structures to affirm her answer to a question instead of "yes" for example!

Can you tell me more, or give an example? I haven’t picked up on this. Thank you!

Yep, I've seen this too. Billi joining words together to communicate more complex tasks, feelings and emotions It's fascinating and a joy to watch ♥️♥️♥️

@@amanitaeater4376 When billi is asked if she wants to play she often answers “want” or “play” or a combination of the two instead of “yes”

Billi is a welcome diversion from a year that definitely required a mad button!

WANT. PETS. (remembers social distancing) MAD.

@@dxtxzbunchanumbers **thinks about everything going on in the world** MADMADMADMADMADMADMAD

More like 6 to 9 months max. :)

In an alternate timeline, we develop advanced language systems for our pets and made machines for them to use to build and drive things. But as we coddled them with the gift of human technology, we also planted them seeds of dissent and rivalry, as a response, we launch all ultra intelligent animals to a remote base set on Mars. As the years go by, the exiled animals with the technology we gave them begin to develop newer technologies on their own and build a true civilization for themselves. But it is clear that Mars can’t be truly sustainable in the long run, so they begin to draw plans against humanity that gave them the technology to do so. And soon began to construct large cannons to launch new invasive forces to reclaim earth after their ancestors were launched up to Mars.

@@darthplagueis3488 haven’t you seen Rick and Marty? If they got that far they would take over and make us there pets 😂

@@darthplagueis3488 I enjoyed reading this XD. Thank you.

Hahaha XD.

Me too!! I can’t wait for more information 🤗🤗

Oh, please check out Hunger4Words, Christina Hunger and her dog Stella. She is the speech pathologist who developed these button-pressing technique. Sadly, she has 1000% more content on Instagram than on KZfaq, but still, check her out, it's the OG, absurdly amazing!

@@t_y8274 come to think of it, corvids don’t need buttons-they can voice human words, like parrots. But I don’t know of any corvid work similar to Irene Pepperberg’s work with Alex and other parrots...

@@amanitaeater4376 no i really think we could get somewhere using buttons for parrots and corvids. they're mostly... parroting things, when they speak. i think a bird would pick up on the idea of 'button=meaning' better than they would 'word=meaning', at least i think buttons would be a very good starting place for furthering language for birds because buttons hold very clear meanings that can then be changed as their vocabulary grows. (ie, bunny's 'settle sound' as a stand in for 'be quiet') alex had some extrinsic dialogue but her area of expertise was mostly general intelligence and not strictly language itself, and her personal questions did not appear to happen very often or regularly.

Yes! Confidence, that’s it! She looks, stands & hovers over which button with so much more confidence. Her actions & word choice have deliberate intention. She knows what to say, how to say it & knows her human listens & will be attentive, every time. The trust & bond with her mom has increased tenfold I think. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I wonder how many animals would have positive mental health & confidence benefits from being able to successfully communicate more easily & accurately with us humans.

@@TreebeardsHome note that she used the word mad a lot in the beginning, but now she knows when to use it! She’s also not that bad when asking for stuff. She used to say one word and another to summarize what she wants, but now she’s forming her sentences which is such an achievement!

That's by far my favorite interaction. I keep going back to rewatch it.

Cats have far more sensitive hearing than humans, so it's entirely possible certain notes might be painful or unpleasant to them. Dogs often don't like noisy electrical appliances because of their sensitivity either. My present cat has very definite "musical preferences" or rather the opposite, music he dislikes, as did my previous cat. Thumbs down for Lana del Ray, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and most rock, thumbs up for cat relaxation music and sleep music on KZfaq and he also takes no offence to James Taylor.

She’s 12? Mine are 8 and 10 and I was thinking it was too ⏰! 🤔

She does!

We have the year 2035, talking cats have conquered earth. Humans now serve as slaves but a few live in the underground and try to sent a dog back in time

Yes! It’s on my list when I have some free time 😹

I think she just hates all "noise" she needs to know if other billi's try to ambush them

Yep, the Hamilton soundtrack video is one of my favourites too! ♥️♥️♥️

definitely a clear example of intent...simple and direct

I feel like it wasn’t until about 4 months in that I was convinced there was intent behind the presses. Now I have trouble being skeptical because it really is consistently meaningful!

@@BilliSpeaks I can see how initially you might have been sceptical - I was at first. Now, having watched many of Billi's vids, I'll totally convinced of her intelligence and ability to learn. It's been an absolute pleasure following the journey of Billi and her Mom ♥️♥️♥️

@@BilliSpeaks Specially when she insulted your taste in music lmao

@@insertcreativityhere7747 what completely convinced me was a video where Billie seems to accidentally press "pets" and then is like "yes, pets"

@@insertcreativityhere7747 I think Billi just doesn't have a word for" it hurts" as we know cats' hearing is way better than ours, so I guess any loud music would not be so pleasant.

She's so smart, sassy, and cute

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If you stand for nothing, what'll you fall for? Sorry-- I couldn't resist! ;-D

"Where are my testicles, Summer?"

Also dogs lol

Yes! Check out our training playlist and website 🤗

@@BilliSpeaks thank you!!!

She did! It's on the record now!

Omg YES. That was so good 😭

Well I would still eat meat but I get your point. Animals can be smarter when they are able to speak out on buttons with our language. The reason we eat meat is because of the food chain, it’s tasty, and gives good nutrition as a source of protein. another important REASON is because a lot of countries are in poverty so they need meat to sustain themselves. Like some countries eat cats and dogs which can be understandable because that’s how they would get their food from mostly. It would be hypocritical of us to curse them out when we eat cows and pigs. Other places would eat rabbits too. In all honesty we humans eat variety of animals. Now there’s a lot of problems of eating meat which is giving greenhouse gases because animals contain methane from farms. Also, deforestation and some health problems. There’s more but you could search it up, there’s a lot of reasons.

@@Mike-kl5yc You'd eat an animal that was self aware and had complex emotional expressions and complex thoughts just because it tasted good? What if you learned that people tasted good too? I know you see the difference here but there are some similarities too. What if a smart animal was as intelligent as a 5 or 6 year old human child? Would that animal still be a legitimate food source? That's my point: at some level of intellect, it's just not morally justifiable to me regardless of that being something we've "always done" or someone being "too poor" to do anything else. (And it actually costs a lot of money to eat meat compared to the same amount of calories from a plant based diet.) Like I said, seeing this is a bit troubling because it makes me wonder about how much suffering the other animals we eat experience and how aware of their fate they truly are.

@@a24396 Well if an animal was that smart, we shouldn't kill them. Like monkeys and apes unless you need to survive or poachers because they are assholes who want to sell the skin. I hate poachers... If people tasted good... Well that's cannibalism and that's wrong for humans because I feel that in the West, cannibalism has negative connotations and is visualized as occurring more like the cannibal ravenously murdering and devouring the flesh of another human being. Even if you take away the murder from the cannibal, you are left with a scavenger who eats the dead much like a pack of rabid dogs. The connotations of cannibalism change as you go from culture to culture going from viscous animalistic behavior to a sacred ritual to honor the dead. That to be said, other places like Africa do this in their tribes. Where eating the dead is ok for funeral cultures. Also PSYCHOPATHS who do this, are crazy. Here's the thing, it is a lot of money to buy meat so someone can eat it. It's not that, it's the fact that the economy would go in shambles because meat balances it. If we did not buy meat as much, Fruits and vegetables would change into more money we have to spend into. If people did not eat meat, we could have vitamin deficiency. Not that I'm saying that plant-based can help you too, but it would be much harder for you because you might need pills to get the vitamins. I always thank the animal I'm eating. I eat animals because it helps my body and if I didn't eat animals, my health would be terrible. I don't have the ability of being able to go vegan or vegetarian. I always thought it was weird we ate animals at first, but that's life. Animals eat other animals, and we do too. THE PROBLEM is that we make them suffer. We should be having clean farming to humanely kill them and have clean meat, not making them go through factories, where they know they will get slaughtered. If I was a human that was captured by aliens, only to be killed for food, then I would want a quiet death and a good life to live. I can only imagine how much pain animals go through in factories when they are cramped against each other and feed unnatural foods to grow larger.

Of course! It was so fun to go back through all her videos 😻 I’m exceedingly proud!

I was waiting for someone who would make this exist

Me too 😂

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