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

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

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.)

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

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

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.

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 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 （งΦ Д Φ）ง

@@sometard8156 😂 best reply ive seen in awhile 10/10 would read again

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

Same :D

Shes getting so smart

@David Dieni how dare you

@David Dieni -_-

@David Dieni get off your moms computer..

I do that too! :D

Same. Except they're never in the couch when I come back home 😂

@@SomeSortOfWay lol 😂

Always. lol

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.

@@rizha7043 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.

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"

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.

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.

Lol

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.

Me: Absolutely, Billi, I love you very much.

At least buy me some dinner first

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.

Special memory is really difficult so good on Billie lol

Cats have good conditional and spatial memory.

I understood that reference!

They fill space so nicely!

As you should :)

Better than those wannabe triangles smh

Same

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.

Practice makes puuurfect lol.

Lol

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.

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

Yeah Bubbles knows whats up

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.

Pretty pic u got there

Referring to the clouds and nature, not the hooter ,.... parden me lol.

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.

Keeps them out of the vacuum cleaner. 😁

I pause after asking her the question, then in the beginning would model possible answers.

Lol

MAD