The fact that she doesn't just say "play" but fully answers your question "want play" I'm losing my mind I love her so much

Billie is like: “This isn’t up for negotiation.”

Billi is doing such a good job showing her displeasure without just saying "mad"! She only said "mad" when you didn't bow to her repeated demands!

Speculation: she sniffs the brush and says "Billi back". I think she recognised it was her own fur and "back" is the only word she has for most of her fur-covered self.

Maybe Billi was saying " Those hairs came from Billi's back ".

Billi is getting smarter and smarter each episode.

As soon as you showed her the potential of playing food it was all over

I think it's interesting that you showed her the hair and asked "what is this", and she answered "billi" Also, when you asked if she wanted pets or was hurt, she said "no" Crazy smart cat

Ah imagine having a cat and calling it a social life without lying to yourself... this is the dream of dreams

“What do you want to play?” Billi: idk I didn’t think I would get this far

this is a real conversation! Expressing emotion (mad) after being rejected and then forgiving, Billy is having a better conversation than many adult humans!

For a little while I thought Billi might have been pressing buttons without really knowing or thinking about what they meant, or even just copying what she sees you do (especially after trying buttons with my cats and getting *nowhere* lol). But once you watch her a bit it's so cool how consistent she is, how she answers questions, how she stays on topic most of the time? It really is unprecedented.

I'm in love with that sassy "No." 🤣

Aye, the mad button is back, was wondering when she would press it again lol.

Billi's back, back again. Billi's back, tell a friend.

"I spent _days_ getting an even layer of fur on this carpet and you're _ruining_ it!" "Mad"

Billi: "I've given some thought to your play later idea and that's a no."

Billi back might mean her fur Mom was squeegeeing out. There was no button for fur, but the place on her body with most fur is on her back. Billi's cognitive skill is impressive!

"Play food" seems to be a consistent request. Maybe incorporating a piece of kibble or a treat attached to a toy into play would make her happy? One could sneakily take that out of her dinner *rubshands*

mom: let's play later, i have to clean the floor billi: *so you have chosen death*

Not only is Billi getting smarter, she's getting more sassy as well... I kept waiting for her to hit the 'mad' button. 😂😂😂

It's so cool to see Billi moving away from pressing "mad" every time she disagrees with something and moving on to "no." I think she finally understands the link between you saying no to her and her saying no to you.

I love how Billi looked down at the floor after you said later the first time like “I see nothing”

I've never seen a cat make such intentional eye contact as much as Billi. She's legit communicating to the best of her kitty knowledge

Bills abity to actively iterate her wants that we see in this video is really neat to see. And it looks like she's getting quicker with her answers! This whole thing is shaping up to be neat to watch evolve

I love the way Billi's tail bushes up slightly and lashes back and forth when she's displeased about something.

Billi said what she said 😂 #No #Mad

I think "play food" = "I am domesticated but don't let that fool you: I want to hunt prey." Other cats would just find a mouse carcass

Billi: I didn't want to have to say this, but.... "MAD"

My grandfather used to keep a toilet brush specifically for pulling pet hair out of his carpets. He could extract whole pets worth with very little effort, it worked like a lint brush on a knit sweater...

It amazes me how Billi considers her answers to a question and also expands on her answers. When she turns away to think before answering while twitching her tail gets me every time. Clever girl!

I think when Billi said "no" when you were cleaning was her saying "No, this isn't a game I want to play" lol

She Is just like if you keep cleaning I will press more buttons until you stop and if you don't I will make you.

This is so interesting for cats, because I wonder whether she wants to communicate in order to get you to do something or just to express her emotions. Maybe she’s not been pressing the mad button as much because she realised it didn’t get her what she wanted

I definitely thought Billi was going to say "Later" when you said you were done and ready to play, because that is the sort of brat of a cat I have.

It strikes me that it took her quite a while to go for “mad,” instead of going for that as soon as you said you could play with her later but not immediately. What a great example of progress!

"cleaning?! You're not even using your tongue!"

Meanwhile Billi is making videos for other cats showing her owner's progress in learning how to understand and obey her commands XD

I'm probably anthropomorphising here, but that 'No' button gets pressed with so much attitude! Billi has amazing comic timing XD

Just found this channel today, this is the first channel I'm actually using the "all" option for notifications. This is by far the best channel to ever exist.

"MooOooOOoom, that's why you have that little round noise machine! Let IT clean the floor!" "What do you mean, we can't play food?"

I Just received my 18 pack of buttons today. I thought I would not need all 18...but thinking about what Billie has...I may yet need more. Everything is messed up but in order but he still found pets and said thank you after.

I noticed she is not meowing, remember my cat always used meow to tell me 'yes' or 'no' to something, this proves that cats are on human level of communication honestly. And yes my cat tried to mimic human voice tone to communicate let down ect

I love seeing absolute proof that cats are more demanding than dogs. Their emotions also seem more black and white, happy or mad. Where as the talking dogs seem to get annoyed, Billi goes straight to MAD! 😹 I LOVE IT! I love you Billi!

Not sure if this has been said by others, but I love the little Billie artwork on the wall.

Ok so other people have mentioned this, but look at the actual dialogue!!! B: Play K: Play? Can we play later? I gotta finish cleaning the floor. B: Play K: Heh, mom play (kind of), mom clean (it's not really play), then later, mom and Billy play. K: Mom, Billy play later. Mom and Billy play later, ok? B: No K: Hehehe! No? That's not ok? Billi, your hair gets everywhere. Later, ok? Later. B: Hmm? What? K: Yeah. I'm cleaning, Billi. B: (accidental press?) Hmmm? K: Is it weird? What is it? (shows the squeegee with hair) B: Billi back K: Back? Billi's back! Does Billi's back want pets? Or does Billi's back hurt? B: No K: No? You don't like this? (3 minutes later) B: Mad K: I'm coming! K: Ok. I'm done cleaning! All done! What does Billi want? B: Want play play (comes up to pet mom) B: Play food K: Play food? Hehehe. Can we play something else beside food? Can we play fan toy? Play fan toy hmmm? Do you wanna play fan toy? B: Where? K: Umm, here B: Pets K: Where pets? Pets can be right here. But do you wanna play fan toy? Play fan toy hmm? B: Outside That's so remarkably coherent!!! I wonder if Billi got mad because Kendra maybe didn't understand her answer about it being Billi back (her hair). But maybe it was just the wait and not doing what she wanted heh. I wonder if Billi remembers playing fan toy somewhere else, in the old apartment where it was on the fan? Maybe that was a different level of fan toy play. That could be another meaning of "outside" Did you play fan toy outside and was she happy? Sooo cute

Billi angry walk to that “no” button was hilarious.

Billi still on a 'play food' kick, hm? Been a while since we had a 'mad'.

Billie: “This carpet smells like me. Why do you remove this, hooman?”

Billi: Why do you want to clean up my hair? It gives the place character!

And of course her favorite game "play food" 😂

Is she gonna do it? She's gonna do it, isn't she? SHE DID IT! 😹😹 "Mad"

Billi's back might be her trying to say that her hair on her back is what you are cleaning.

She worked hard to get the hair into the carpet and doesn't want you undoing it

Billi is like "You removed the protective layer of cat hair! This cannot continue!"

Lol billi is hilariously cute

Wow, "play food" is really the new big thing, isn't it? She keeps mentioning it. I showed the video with your music to my partner, he laughs less quickly at stuff than I do but he too was very impressed and amused by Billi's reaction to Hamilton 🤣

FINALLY! I knew Billi would hit the Mad button. Suspenseful.

Who would have guessed that the animals we think of as independent and low maintenance are in fact very needy and high maintenance if you give them the chance to communicate

I *really* want to know what she really means by “play food”

Whenever the cat presses "MAD", i can barely stop laughing... Love her!

fascinating how she's taught her this, this could be monumental in terms of THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE.

No one else seems to have mentioned this but when Billi asked “hmm... what?” While her momma was cleaning I freaked. Obviously there’s maybe a tendency towards confirmation bias, but that seems like a cat just asked what you were doing and why, which is pretty amazing to me.

"Play food" has really become her favorite type of playing, surpassing the worm

Billi really wanted to play.

It is very much possible Billie is using "back" to mean her fur as well. If you remove the wait times in between button presses, we get this conversation: Mom: "What is it?" *shows Billie a squeegee with her own fur* Billie: "Billie. Back." Mom: ""Back? Billie back? Does Billie back want pets? Or does Billie back hurt?" Billie: "No." I believe she was answering your question of "What is it?" and showed her the fur, and she answered it was Billie's back (her fur). And when you misconstrued her meaning, she said "no".

Billi: No. Lol, I mean, she basically has a toddler's vocabulary and "no" is a very powerful word!

I was about to say she traded in mad for no and then...MAD. 😀🎉🎊

The algorithm brought me here. Now I'm here forever

I accidentally covered the bottom of my rubber slippers with floor wax and discovered they make the best carpet squeegee ever once the wax dried. Now you can catch me skating over the carpets to the sounds of Swan Lake once a week.

She forms full sentences and asks questions. I probably shouldn't be surprised, because cats are known to have the intellect of 3yo, and that's how far our tests got us. And they are proven to be ineffective because cats won't really participate. My cats definitely recognize a lot of words, including pretty abstract words. They are really smarter than we think.

they actually have tiled flooring but billi's hair really does get everywhere

1:19 when he said billi's back he probably meant his fur, man this cat is so smart

I've found that a rubber, soft-bristled broom is good at getting cat fur and hair out of the carpet before vacuuming. Billi is such a clever girl!

I love the squeegie trick for hair! Saves vacuums for sure.

the absolute excitement on billi’s faces when mom said “all done” though 🥺

I’ve said this before on this channel. Moms work the hardest :,) Also after Billi said “back” she so adorably positioned herself in such a way that really seemed like she was expecting back pets

billi’s back hurts from carrying this youtube channel

I think she was trying to say scratch her back like you’re scratching the floor

Thank you for captioning all of these!!!

I am constantly flabberghasted at the complex and deliberate high level thought in this communication. certainly NOT random

This woman has so much patience.

That car has gotten farther with a human than I ever will. Thanks for the videos!!! 🐱🐱🐱

Well, this confirms my family's theory that animals hate when we clean.

If she doesn't like you cleaning the carpet that way, then I guess you'll just have to use the DREADED VACUUM BEAST OF DOOM!

Seems like she might be starting to use “hmm” to mean “why”

Oh my goodness! She is so smart! Love the Billi videos, just amazing.

I fully expect a later episode where Billi has written on the wall "Call NASA. Solved FTL problem."

OMG Billie is a Best Freaking Genius Cat Ever ! 🐈

The silence, and then her sashaying up to the board and saying No made me cackle. There was so much 'tude there

I interpreted her question as "wtf are you gathering from the floor" and her "Billi Back" as "that's from my body". I'm sure the owner would know better, but since it's all interpretive I wanted to offer that alternate interpretation up.

I got to give it to billie, shes a lady who knows her own mind!! Shes wonderful ☺️

honestly i just think she is wanting pets and love all the time with you bc she is feeling close to you now that she has been given the means to communicate with you. I sense so much gratitude and love in between all these moments.

This is amazing. You can see she's using 100% of her brain capacity. 😊🥰

1:18 "Billi, back"... Was she trying to say that that was fur from her back?? xD

I hadn’t noticed it before but I love the little Cat embroidery on the wall!

Billi’s like: Too easy for me, now give me mathematical equations.

You know I wasn't convinced this was legit before, but the more I watch, I think this cat really may be communicating and not just hitting buttons randomly.

Haha i love how she stops think and press "no" she is so smart

this channel keeps me going, my cat went missing and his name is also billi, so watching this helps me a lot :)