At least one reason for their flip-flopping has been confirmed, the outside being too noisy..... Now we just need to confirm whether or not if too wet, too dry, too hot, too cold, too windy, too calm, etc are viable reasons too lol

Maybe this is why they like to hide in boxes as well?

impossible

For my cat it's either too windy, the weather isn't right (snowy or rainy), or she wanted me to go outside with her.

that and they freak out when cars with headlights on pass by, poor cats....

Almost all domestic cats are. Their hearing is 12 times more sensitive than ours.

WTF DOES ABEPD MEAN

@@eebu4053 heh?

@@kukui79 and dogs

One of my cats will go into the bedroom and shut the door if he wants to sleep and the tv is too loud. Of course, he can't open the door back up (my last two cats could do so) so it's a bit problematic!

That's something that I've heen nagging my parents about. Like noone in this household would ever willingly get a parrot bc they're noisy and yet we forget that we're the noisy ones compare to sensitive ears of out cats. Also the fact that cats interact in barely audible chirps unless they need to meow for human attention. "Don't be so loud, you'll make Marshmallow upset" They're little creatures with gentle little ears.

@@taritangeo4948 Well, chirps and very loud meows when meeting other strange cats or finding mate.

That's right! She did not like it when mom was listening to Hamilton! LOL

I imagine that autotuned rapping was confusing to her. The words come too fast to understand and they sound funny.

Lol

Nah, that’s what’s called ‘taste’.

*shakes paw at Lin-Manuel Miranda*

Yep.

I agree

Just use this simple logic; If your cat doesn't meow or shows signs of discontent / frustration, you're doing the right thing. Cats are quite adept and straightforward in telling you what they want. (the one exception are depressed / sick cats who often won't give you any clues about how miserable they are. But those are thankfully the exception)

@@boooster101 I don't disagree. What has occurred to me is that, now that Billi has additional ways of communicating with her huMom, Billi is incentivized to "speak up" more. Billi can say that a noise is bothering her, instead of us, as humans, assuming her discontent at going outside being weather. It doesn't change, necessarily, what you can do about it, but just knowing there's a problem is a breakthrough.

@@saoirsevicteoiria2759 exactly, most people just assume their cat is being fickle, indesicive and annoying with the going in and out constantly. Not many would be able to tell you specifically that they do want to go outside but the noise is bothering them

Yeah! 😳 That was amazing! She's taking leaps instead of steps now lol

Maybe she even just wanted the door open to hear better.

@@kellyalves756 I don't think so. We can turn on and off lights in the house and turn on and off the music. Some cats think we can change the weather outside or turn off the noise outside. Eventually Billi will probably understand that she can't change things "outside".

if only extroverts would believe us introverts that ouch outside noise and ouch outside angry ppl. maybe we should get some of those buttons XD

@@HisameArtwork ahahahah true

Nah it's only a cat

@@welcometolife4237 Yea and they can connect buttons with following actions, thats simple

Dogs can learn hundreds of words, I wonder how many cats can learn.

@@bekindist maybe a thousand 😂 but they’d probably only use the “food” and “mad” buttons often

@@thestrangeandstupidone8116 That sounds about right. "Snack" and "play" are the only words mine responds to. That and when I tell her "no" it always makes her meow back with extra attitude, I know she's cussing me out in kitty language😂

true haha

billie mad XD

I THOUGHT YOU CONTROLLED EVERYTHING??? MY LIFE IS A LIE

@@frenne_dilley you mean Hamilton "noise OUCH" :P

Cats often meow just to try to communicate what they want to humans, so the buttons kind of replace the need to meow

Mine usually tries to communicate non-verbally for most things. A lot of it is him sitting there staring at me and sometimes exhaling sharply to get my attention.

My cat refuses to make any sound at any time for any reason. No idea why.

@@ashleyw9111 clearly your cat has a high opinion of your intelligence, too bad it seems he's overestimating your ability to speak cat 😂

@@ARVash My cat, Ren, was the same but recently he has learned to meow when he wants something. Took him 5 years, I think he is a slow learner. Snowy is a fast learner and can stand on her hind legs to push a door open or pull a door open (not from the handle)

Lamp can you imagine saying this and having actual proof

This would honestly be an amazing setup and payoff in a movie. At first you think it's just establishing a personality quirk where one character talks to their cat through buttons, but then it comes back around to the cat being an active player in the story.

Yeah it would be cool if she hit the noise button when it was silent and then you get jump scared by whatever is making the noise you can’t hear.

And then in the end Billie saves the day

Scene: A woman reading a book downstairs in her living room. Its late at night. Cat comes running into the room, semi fuzzed out, and staring in the direction of the stairs. Girl says "Whats got you all spooked, hm?" Cat runs over to her buttons and presses "Mad" "Noise" "Away" "Help" and stares towards the staircase again. The woman watches her intently, confused and concerned. A door is heard slamming on the second floor. The woman and her cat are the only ones home..

@@socklips7655 yes... lol love it

Me too. Ouch noise all the effing time.

Yep. I have hyperacusis caused by hearing damage. Loud noises can be painful.

I hope noice canceling technology can make your life easier !

@@Revengeur72 That's just more noise.

@@sgtsaltstick2729 I find it sometimes helps, depending on the environment I’m in. It just blurs into white noise that is easier to tune out then a bunch of unorganised chaos

I saw that movie. Id bet on the cat

So do I lol

@@azureramorganna7337 which movie?

But her mom will still listen to Hamilton 😂

So do we all. I've just accepted it all, and never once before-now realised it might be horrible for our pets too.

I think they just live in hope. Or determination. 🤭

I had a cat that would demand to go out, and if it was cold, he’d turn around and hit me (usually on the leg) and grumble at me like it was my fault. Like I intentionally made it cold just to ruin his morning. Then he’d go pout under the bed for about 5 minutes, then he’d come back out and demand to go outside again and do it all over again. If I told him “No, it’s cold outside!” he’d make an angry sound at me, then turn his back and flick his tail to make sure I knew he was mad.

Mine seems convinced that just because it was too cold and snowy 5 minutes ago doesn't mean it still is now, even though he can clearly see nothing has changed.

@@Annie_Annie__ Mine always looks up at me with that wanting look she does. I'm pretty sure like you, she thinks I've made it cold, or rainy etc and I'm choosing not to make it warm for her. It's the same look she gives when she wants the aircon/heater on. I think the aircon gods have really confused her on just how much power we have over the weather.

@@kovi6203 Exactly. I live in Texas and a couple weeks ago we were without power for 4 days. It got down to freezing temperatures inside the house at night, even though I’m in south Texas where we can go years without it ever hitting freezing, and when it does, it’s usually only for a couple hours. It was *rough*! My poor cat Gus was very confused why we had to all snuggle up under every blanket we owned to attempt to stay warm all of a sudden. It was probably the first time in his life that he’s been genuinely cold and he was NOT impressed. He seemed to blame my husband. He wouldn’t cuddle up with him, and kept glaring at him. Gus seems to think my husband is the temperature god and that he failed in his duties for a random week. Though, he blamed me when there was ice in his water dish. He was not happy about that at all. He kept yelling and fussing at me about it. So I guess my husband is the weather god, but I’m the water god? But normally, when nothing is going wrong, Gus thinks he’s the god of the house and should be worshipped as such. That week might’ve caused poor Gus an identity crisis.

Here in California, they wouldn't bat an eye.

same, she does it every time

That was so adorable 😻

Maybe like to loud and maybe some for the different toys billi has

She has buttons for the specific toys. Too many buttons would have diminishing returns. It would get harder for her to remember. I think ouch noise describes loud perfectly well.

@@firegaze21 yea i do wonder how bunny the dog remembers all her words locations, it looks like she has atleast 50 buttons if not more. I wonder if she can actually read?

Disagree, this is already a lot of buttons for her right now, she's just about catching up. I think they should stick with these buttons until they're learned fully before adding new ones. It will take her a long time to fully (within reason) grasp the meaning of some of these words, let alone what meaning they take on in combination with other words, and in different sentences. That's on top of memorising where they all are (remember, she can't read), even I would take forever with that if they weren't labelled.

Yeah, I think she’s doing pretty good. She’s getting better at combining buttons to make herself understood, which is what is wanted now. Making her own phrases like “ouch noise” is perfect. Along with the fact that Billi can’t read, she also didn’t learn these buttons from the time she was a baby like Bunny the dog did. Billi was full grown when she started. It’s hard enough to learn a new language as an adult, let alone the concept of language.

So funny!

Meanwhile my cat sleeps peacefully in his cat tree next to my desk while I'm yelling at a game and he's fully at peace lol. But all cats are different, mine just doesn't care about loud noises or else he'd just go downstairs.

Now there's a thought! :) Watch, they'll be on the market soon....

🥰🥰

That would be really interesting to see!

I bet sex would be a bit of a running theme.

Dolphins can actually be taught to speak real human words, still not sure how I feel about it

@@LilKitLen well. not really no. There was a long running experiment during worl war (i think 2) where they tried to teach dolphins the english language because scientists thought that if you could teach a dolphin to speak, you could teach it to aliens too. (yes, crazy) They had 3 dolphins and after MONTHS they did not speak. The male dolphin however fell in love with the female scientist and she had a sexual relationship with him. It was only after that, that he was able to "speak" but no more than maybe "hello". So while dolphins may be smart, they are not able to speak and they are sex addicted assholes.

@@JuuChan I have actually read extensively about this study before and it is not quite how you've been lead to believe it is. The entire thing was purposefully exaggerated around the "sex" element, even though that was an honestly non-significant part, nor was it even remotely close to other concerns you could better have about the study. This is a very good (if a little long) article to learn more about it www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me

I now desparately need Billi to press a subscribe button at the end of the video.

Just change the treat button to say subscribe.

“Like” and “Subscribe” buttons would be hilarious.

It’s impossible not to 🥰🥰

Good thing she is a vet.

(Btw: what was the outside noise?)

It’s the sun reflecting off the camera lens

u r right Jarrad. u can clearly see between 0:45 and 0:54 that the cat is guided to the button with a laser pointer. You can actually see it happening multiple times. the cat prolly gets some sweet candy after she followed the laser pointer and pushed a few random buttons. Must be some awesome lens if u can keep such a sharp dot when u move ur camera 90 degrees counter clockwise LOL.

@@BilliSpeaks just how dumb do you think we are?

@@richardbottom9843 You in particular? Lower intelligence than average.

haha that's so nice

Probably using 'no' and 'later' when Billie asks for something, then giving it to her after some time.

Idk about 'later' but the word I've taught my cats is 'Wait' and I use it in the same meaning as 'later' . One of my cats is on a strict diet due to his old age/health and when he would ask for food too early, I'd tell him "Wait, ok? Wait.". He understands this and goes to lie beside the food bowl patiently until it's time (old cat, very chill dude). I also use Wait in the regular meaning (like how dogs are trained to Wait before they are allowed to eat), which both of them understand, so I believe her Later goes through this way too.

So am I the only one who noticed the light used to bring the cat to the buttons ?

@@keerya4179 that's a glare from the sunlight, I get them on my videos all the time

@@keerya4179 yeah whole vid is bs, just used laser to guide the cat, thank god Im not the only one who noticed

Her ears* She* Billi is a girl.

takes a pet like no problem!

@@DeVoe86 Not afraid at owal!

Lmao it’s the reflection of the camera lens 😂 these conspiracy theorist ma crack me up

@@BilliSpeaks absolutely not. It’s clearly a pointer. It’s movements don’t follow the camera, so it’s not lens reflection. You got caught.

Thanks for pointing that out.

@@paulomolina9152 You're hilarious, like the flat earthers that show the earth is "flat" by taking a level in a plane.

Do animals even have a dominant "hand"? Most animals don't have the fine control we humans have.

@@jasperzanovich2504 Polar Bears are usually left pawed.

Cats are generally ambidextrous, so I’d guess so.

@@jasperzanovich2504 when my cat encounters a door she has to pull open, she can only pull with her right paw. If she has to use her left paw, she's stuck. Idk tho that might just be my cat she's kinda weird in general

@@jasperzanovich2504 Cats do have a right or left-pawed preference, but it's much closer to an even split than it is with humans.

Well, time for you to give them buttons. ^ ^

Probably outside the human hearing range

dont you hear the loud hum?

@@GeneralArmorus Sounds a bit like a washing machine?

@@DerKatzeSonne Maybe construction?

I think construction but it’s a city so could be anything 🤷🏼‍♀️

From context alone it does not make sense since that spot also appears later in the video. I'd wager that it is a reflection from the camera lense.

@@jasperzanovich2504 i know it appears again but idk