You can see Billis' Machiavellian gears beginning to turn after 1:27, when mom says _"Food soon baby"._ Just right after that, keeps thinking about what to do and then Billi goes straight to the "dad" button at 1:54 and it is as if it kept thinking should I?... And then Billi is like, nah, I can soften her up: _"mom, mom, mama, ma, mummy, mamá. Love you, cuddle. Food?"_ It is a masterclass of emotional manipulation haha. I, for one, welcome our feline overlords. Edit: it is suggestive of a theory of mind in cats, and it is fascinating. The other video with the "did you bite me?, ouch where?, love you" is so compelling. I wish there were a more controlled experiment to confirm theory of mind in cats, since we now have an interface to somewhat communciate with a cat, and Billi seems to be the most reliable one at that.

@@quelopario obviously cats and other animals have minds. Sheesh, why are people still so skeptical over that idea 😪 but aside from that your analysis of billi's thoughts seem pretty spot-on

@@voracion Theory of mind is more than cats having minds. It’s cats understanding that others have different minds than they do, different knowledge and experiences than they do. Like one might have seen where an object was placed and the other did not. It’s understanding that concept. But I think it’s pretty clear they understand this. There just hasn’t been experimental evidence, mostly because cats are not terribly cooperative in an unfamiliar lab with a stranger.

@@bennaustin6632 and there is always the risk of a "Clever Hans" effect if the owner is the one participating in the experiment. It would be interesting if Billi were willing to communicate and interact with the board with strangers.

@@quelopario Haven't you seen the video of Billi using the buttons with a cat sitter? I'd say that qualifies as a stranger. That girl also seemed to have trouble hearing the audio on the buttons, as she would wait for Billi to move and lean over to read the label to see which button she pressed. This made it so that her reactions to Billi's button presses were delayed, which would theoretically make it even more difficult for cat reacting only to feedback from a human.

100% my thoughts - like, I'm going nowhere!😊

Ha! That's me too, when my cats lay on me in the bed! Legs all stiff, roasting hot, can't reach the remote, and needing the restroom desperately, but I don't dare move and disturb the precious fluff, curled up into a cute little ball!

Same

For sure! I wouldn't get anything done, I already feel guilty vacuuming 🤣

Got it... Billy doesn't want her to go to work.... boom!

Yesssss

Catnip isnt drugs for cats it just makes them a bit sleepy and stuff but diffrent cats have diffrent reactions reactions but i dont think this one went hyper

@@50d4c4p dont ruin it mate.

As Yes, the cats love them lives with their drugs.

@@fireofgoldengamer9399it isn’t ruining it, it’s just a fact

I was thinking the same thing , I was like oh shi- , they actually understand us. . - just can't talk

@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Qrock Technically, notice she uses short phrases and taught it to understand what they mean (usually practicing this is by saying a word then doing the action or pointing to something/someone over and over from what I have heard)

Boy, isn't she!

Imagine actually believing the cat is communicating with them 😂😂😂

@@BlameNate lmfao then what do u think the animals are doing?

It’s true 😅

I get that. I was dog- sitting last week, and every once in a while I’d look up and call her name just to express my happiness she was present. The Mom button celebrates the Momness of Mom. Being present is the best gift to many animals, including humans. 😁

A lot of these button using critters (by which I mean at least two) are real daddy's girls ( The other one I'm thinking of is Bunny, a Shepherd Doodle I think she is?)

Cats really are not that smart. Pattern recognition in animals with lower cognition appears from long term response actuation cycles, and cats do not have that capability especially with that many variations

@@jcon2060 human-centric ideas of cognition are so ridiculous, and the fact that you used actuation cycles definitely gives away this isn’t your field, since that term is used in soft robotics and not biology.

I think that's more just the lack of facial muscles, Us humans are so many complicated expressions that can show a fathomless amount of emotion. One thing we all have however that most animals don't is malice, We have a desire to harm for reasons beyond food and that's alright, But it certainly gives a certain something to our eyes.

@@theeguy9022 I actually can see expressions, they are very subtle. Then again I was a cat owner for 14 years

Mine loves walks on his harness. It would be nonstop “Outside!”

She’s definitely bridging me 😹 “happy” = well done!

Pretty sure she trained Mom at tending to her every wish without delay.

“Silver is for the kettle, and gold for the furnace, but The LORD is the tester of hearts- Bible” your heart is like discovered silver, dirty and not pure, when silver is purified it is melted over and over, to the point that when it’s melted and glows red hot, it is pure enough to see your own reflection in the puddle, so also does the LORD purify your heart, till HE can see HIS own reflection in it, seek the LORD and be reborn, ask The LORD to renew and restore you, repent and ask The LORD for HIS Salvation for those who seek will find and those who knock the door will be open unto them, no man is good, all are in need of salvation, Jesus died so that our sins will be wiped away and so that we could be made new, seek The Kingdom of GOD for if you would be wise you would be wise for yourself, pick up your cross and deny your flesh and follow the path of GOD, for The Kingdom of GOD is at hand, in JESUS MIGHTY NAME Amen and Amen

@@juanit0tackit0tackito2 Th? This is a channel about a cat speaking with buttons

I love when she does that 😭😭🥰

Has she been watching TV with dad again? Lol

@@melt4769 Women like that show too.

@@meganbarber3599 *sigh* it's really sad that this has to be explained, but they clearly did not mean that women do not like or watch Family Guy (I am unclear how or why you came to this conclusion.) Rather they were making a joke that it's Dad's fault that Billi (See: Child) picked up that behavior. Please, do better and be a better person than this.

@@DeanVarney Like they and I said, they implied that only men watch that show. Maybe you could work on not being an ass in your responses? Hard for you, I'm sure.

😂😂😂

@@BilliSpeaks That *does* raise a few interesting questions; 1. When "dad" sleeps, does she just touch the button instead of pressing it, kinda like asking "is dad up yet?" 2. Or is it more or less random if she presses it? 3. Could it be possible that when she touches, but doesn't press a button, that she means it more as a question instead of a statement/order? Especially number 3 is interesting, because if she "asks" with the buttons too, it could indicate a *Far* more complex use of the buttons than we have previously thought, and therefore a far more complex "verbal" understanding from Billi than we thought.

​@@The_Keeper Billi demanding food is subtly but significantly different than Billi postulating whether or not food is on the menu. *hmm?*

Makes sense. After all, we humans tend to get a bit "on edge" when *we* aren't understood. Just goes to show, even language barriers between species *Can* be overcome... with some effort.

@@The_Keeper this is usually why toddlers and such have tantrums: they're upset, but can't properly express it to others yet, so they scream and cry instead. They have to be taught

I work with some adults who can't express themselves through language too, and it definitely causes frustration.

When I try to meow at my cat she gets mad and starts hitting my foot... Not sure what I'm saying that makes her do that

“Silver is for the kettle, and gold for the furnace, but The LORD is the tester of hearts- Bible” your heart is like discovered silver, dirty and not pure, when silver is purified it is melted over and over, to the point that when it’s melted and glows red hot, it is pure enough to see your own reflection in the puddle, so also does the LORD purify your heart, till HE can see HIS own reflection in it, seek the LORD and be reborn, ask The LORD to renew and restore you, repent and ask The LORD for HIS Salvation for those who seek will find and those who knock the door will be open unto them, no man is good, all are in need of salvation, Jesus died so that our sins will be wiped away and so that we could be made new, seek The Kingdom of GOD for if you would be wise you would be wise for yourself, pick up your cross and deny your flesh and follow the path of GOD, for The Kingdom of GOD is at hand, in JESUS MIGHTY NAME Amen and Amen

I noticed that too. Most cats hate that. She was in an especially cuddly mood that morning.

@Kirsten Corby Really? I guess it depends on the breed maybe? I have a maine coon and whenever I'm home from school he's immediately running up to me.

So basically she smokes one first thing in the morning and her parents buy her the weed.

@@juliz2500 jealous, huh? 🤣

@@1slotmech 😂

@@juliz2500 Billie living it up

Woweee she was right! 😹

But she's just pressing buttons because they get a reaction, doncha know.

She really needs that "phone" 📱 button like "no phone" 😁

I would say even without the buttons, cats still do that call. To their humans or their cat moms.

She’s one of the best I’ve seen. Bunny the poodle is great too. Very existential too

There's definitely quite a bit going on in that fuzzy noggin of hers.

oh shi- now that made me curious, what if tho billi got trained for that specific button.

It’s a vice of mine that don’t even try to fight 😹

I think that’s an Awkward Yeti mug?

@@lauraholmes2402 yep!

😹😹 I’ll have to start a subscription service, will be very haphazard and prone to last minute cancellations

@@BilliSpeaks 🤣🤣

Fan toy as currency

Kendra: Okay, Billi we need to leave for the next client's house in 15 minutes. Billi: "No." Kendra: I'm sorry to report Billi has canceled your house call request. Unfortunately, refunds are not available and rescheduled appointments are not guaranteed.

@Bananas 🤣🤣🤣 Yep! That's exactly how it would go!!

Hell, I do the same thing when it’s almost HusbandByeWork time. Cuddles, kiss, tea, love you. 😢

@@JackieOwl94 Awwww !

She just waits to be picked up like the queen she is!

She's looking for exactly what she's trying convey without even looking at the buttons. Awesome

@@JaSmiNEtherlands you know that cat vision doesn't work like humans and also there is such a thing as using something so much you don't need to look at it. I certainly don't need to look at my keyboard to type.

@@bluester7177 But can you so having only 1 finger which represents cat's paw and not touching your device by anyhow except that finger

@@JaSmiNEtherlands the buttons are a size adequate to her paw, they certainly aren't small, there is spacing between the buttons, so I don't understand your argument at all.

I think your argument stems more from your disdain for cats than anything else. its painfully obvious that her button pressed were NOT random and all had an intended purpose. pressing "dad" right before dad comes home, could not be any more obvious that she clearly understands the meaning of each and every button distinctly. I think what's going on here is that you dont want to admit for some reason that cats are intelligent enough for this with enough training ( humans have to be "trained" in language as well so your point is moot). let me guess, you are one of those people that are convinced that's dogs are smart and cats are stupid, and this video clearly contradicts everything you thought you knew about cats and you must put up this cognitive dissonance because your whole worldview just got shaken up. is that about right?

I don’t really know what her light touches on buttons mean, whether it’s a “is this the right button?” or a “whisper” or showing tentative intention or something completely different! I respond in this case, but I don’t always depending on the situation.

Aww, poor baby. Give her a few pet from me, and a belly rub, if she is into that. :)

@@The_Keeper Will do! 😁

Mine sure as heck do. One of them starts whining at me when I have to leave (she has always been *Very* vocal). Try telling them what you're doing, and when you'll be home. After all, cats have an excellent sense of time. Mine tend to relax, and go nap, when I tell them what I have to do, like shopping, work, or whatever, and when I expect to be back.

@@The_Keeper my son (cat) will keep finding a way to climb on my lap or on top of me and try to fall asleep 😭😭 it's so cute I can't leave him!

They 100% do!

Lol me rn about to leave soon and my cat decided it’s a good time to take a nap on my lap 🙃

It’s slowly expanding, but I feel pretty good with where we’re at. We add as the need arises!

@@BilliSpeaks she doesn't use mad as often, so billi is not having much of a problem expressing herself. At this point, it's you recognizing a need she doesn't know about. I think that if a pet was able to select or request a button, or could ask their parents to move buttons around, that we would see more into how they interpret concepts.

@@BilliSpeaks Some prepositions would be cool.