I missed the nonverbal communication and made Billi MAD | BilliSpeaks
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- čas přidán 15. 12. 2022
- I love video footage, I learn so much watching these interactions again! In Billi’s mind she was probably being incredibly clear that her food bowl was empty, all done, and she didn’t want to wait for more later. If I had understood sooner it probably wouldn’t have progressed 😹
I always talk about how long I give Billi before interjecting, I also find it interesting that she might be waiting for me too. She took a few laps before repeating her request!
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When she finally hits the food button it’s like, “I really shouldn’t have to even do this, human. Pay attention.”
I think Billi needs an "attention" button. 😊
She definitely thought really do I have to spell it out for you I gave a none verbal clue
I also imagine her being all sassy during this
Yes Billi should not have to translate it, everyone knows that mad means food in Danish. Billi is multilingual.
Thank you....👏👏👏
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Billi doesn't understand that you're not always looking at her.
I mean, I probably should be 😹
@@BilliSpeaksclearly
Did I stutter???? Pay attention hooman!
Everyone should be!
Billi know Mom isn't always looking at her. And she is not pleased that this is the case.
Alternative title: cat confirms that you feel loved when you are understood
Very true!
Yes, I think that's exactly what that "love you" was about. I mean, it could've just been her typical "please"/buttering up move... but this time it felt more like, "Ahh, thank you for figuring out what I was talking about, you're the best, and I'm not mad anymore!" :)
@@TieDyeVikki And that look up was pure love, eye contact thing. She was deffo happy to be understood.
dude 🤯 that's actually so valid even for humans
If it's this frustrating for a cat (to get what it wants) 'with' buttons, you have to wonder how much more frustrating it is for a cat 'without' buttons.
my cat after staring at me wide-eyed at the kitchen for 2 minutes wondering why i don't know whether to feed him or let him into the yard
It is not frustrating if you don't use buttons but you do watch for their signals.
My cat trained me well. When his bowl was empty he would repeatedly bang it. Was funny when he did it to his water bowl and there was still water in the bowl. Cat ran out of kitchen fast lol
No my kitten starts meowing consistently( they are spoiled )
One of mine will find a magazine or paper to sit on and flick at it. She'll make more and more noise and it's like, I don't know what you want! What's wrong? I literally just fed you! Pets? Come here. No? WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
Her little circle walk is her counting to ten. Whatever you do, don't give her a "very mad" button lol
😹😹😹 she’s doing “woosah” breaths
in Germany if we see a cat circeling around something we say "herum tigern" ... literally she "tigers around" i think its a good expression
@@thefench1 that’s adorable ☺️
So far, I was going under the assumptions that she was doing the little circle walk as a way to compute what her mom says, what she wants to say, and what buttons she needs to convey her message.
Starving...no food... poor kitty.
Billie has just enough energy to spell it out for mom.
You can see her wasting away before your eyes! 😹
It's been 1,537...seconds..
Since She Last Ate!! She is utterly famished and on the brink of demise!! 😱
Need food now!
the cat new it wanted food and she wasn't even looking
Sometimes when she takes a moment to compute your sentences I feel like she's translating to cat language in her head, like when humans try to remember high school Spanish on vacation.
Which makes even more sense seeing as when you don't understand something she just keeps loudly repeating the same word 😂
When bilingual you sometimes have to take a second to translate a word from one language to another or you forget how to communicate what you want in the proper language so you keep saying close in hopes they understand..I think we've all been there where we repeatedly ask for something and get upset when the other person doesn't understand before we ask in another way, it happens to kids more often (which it's assumed pets have roughly the same intelligence and attitude as children, they can get impatient and get very upset from it)
While that might be humanizing her a bit too much it is DEEPLY fascinating to see the levels of understanding and communication Billy is capable of.
Sure, it took a bunch of behavioral training for her to understand the buttons, but that's the key - she has truly understood them and willingly uses them to communicate. Still baffles me every time i watch videos on this channel, just how much that comparatively tiny cat brain of hers is capable of doing :)
Billi continues to blow me away. A perfectly coherent complaint, combining body language and button speech.
She so smart. :3
not sure if spamming the "MAD" button is a coherent complaint, but it works.
@@magic_cfw I wish I had a "MAD" button I could spam :(
@@magic_cfw it gets the point across idk
Billi knows how to girlboss, gatekeep, and gaslight her way into any situation.
Omg I love this and YES she has all of the above mastered😻🥰Billi is the Queen after all 😹👑
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Haha, well said. Hey when you got it, flaunt it.
I love this comment 🤣💓🐈🐈
Funny as hell, but really mess up. Apparently people love to be in emotional abusive relationships.
I truly believe Billi was saying "love you" as a means of saying "thank you".
I love Billi and her earnest efforts to communicate with you. Her looking to you after using buttons is so pure and it's absolutely beautiful.
Dang. Now there's something in my eyes. Must be cat fur making me well up with tears.
I really think that cats use slow blinks and love you as an all purpose etiquette to punctuate requests, etc. It can mean love you, thank you, I'm sorry, depending on the context. I've seen one cat hiss and slow blink in the same nonverbal sentence.
@sleekoduck My cat had a certain kind of hiss when you approached him. I always felt it meant: ok you can come closer, but you better not do anything wrong.
@@sleekoduck that would be my housemates' one cat. She desperately wants pets, but she's afraid of overstimulation. When she allows it, she's in 7th heaven. I just hold out a couple fingers to let her decide what happens next. I love her so much and always hope our interaction helps her to trust a little more each day.
That one cat had been fighting and I think he was so wrapped up in the energy and anger of the fight, he just hissed at me by reaction, then slow blinked, like, SORRY, DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT TO YOU. Cats are complex.
I agree too and wondered if there was a "thank you" button. If not, she likely was 😍😻
I cracked up at "love you" 🤣
I thought this was purely human communication thing
"I love you, mom, even when you're kind of slow." - Billi, probably 😂
To be fair she did say "LATER, mad". She was letting you know there was still time to fix the problem.
😹😹 it’s like a countdown
@BilliSpeaks "later, mad."
3 seconds later "Mad, mad"
Later is just much quicker for a cat
@BilliSpeaks does she have a late button? Like dinner is late. Could she be using "later" like that?
@@wordzmyth that's how I interpreted it
I enjoyed hearing her use her MAD button
I feel like we haven't heard her use it as often as she used to
She’s had some character development 😹 but her patience only goes so far!
@@BilliSpeaksis mad still her favorite word?
@@carschmn Pretty sure food is her favorite word. 😂
@@ellengrace4609 or Fan Toy
@@BilliSpeaks I think we’re all ‘Mad’ about that one. Sane critters and people are incredibly boring. More mad please :)
Watching Billi has changed some of the ways that I interact with my cat. If he is upset or vague about what he wants, I tell him that I didn't see what he needed, and ask him to show me again. I also found that he has a similar move to Billi's walk in a circle as she plans out her button pressing. I used to think that was him losing interest, now I know he is formulating his message (and he gets frustrated when he is interrupted while he does that).
Same, after watching Billi and Bunny, I talk different to my dog and cat. They don't have buttons but use plenty of body language and vocalizations for the same results. I also wait now for the "thinking circles"! Now if only I could figure out what my cat is saying after dinner each night. It's always the same series of sounds, always after a particular type of food Is given. We can't figure out if its "thanks mom that's yummy", or "why do you keep feeding me this crappy food" lol
I do this with my dog. When I'm not sure what he's wanting, I say 'show me!' and he will walk me to the door, or the pantry (where the biscuits live) or wherever he is wanting me to be...
@@Syeleiswatching Is it a messier wet food? My elderly cat wants his meat beard wiped off his face after saucy wet food. He also insists on having his noggin dried off after he's been drinking out of the sink. That was a weird one to figure out. He has a couple buttons but they might as well be rocks, he's not interested.
They need more time to think before come up with the answer because they have less brain power than a human. xD
That little rub off their side down the owners leg feels like a little diplomacy: although there's an issue we're still in the same tribe
i LOVE the way Billi walks when she is thinking, probably the most literal "circular logic" i have ever seen
She used the “All done” button to say the bowl was all done = empty which shows she gets the concept of something being “all done” i.e. has come to an end.
I like how she walks a little circle before push the button she needs then sit down and looks at mum to see that she got the message. Billi’s such a cleaver ol’ girl!🥰
I don't think she understands that concept, I think she pushes random buttons when she needs help, which is also smart but not in the same level
It’s not that she gets the concept of all done, it’s that that combination of actions has very Likely worked to get her fed before. And then pressing buttons more randomly when things aren’t working. It’s a different kind of understanding.
@@ieNiss-or8xb no
@@sociallyineptsnapper no
@@terrible1736 so what you’re really saying, is you disagree but don’t have the ability to support your argument nor are you even willing to try.
The way she looked at you before pressing Food! Clearly she expected you to understand!
she was like "aahg shes clueless..."
"Really?! You're going to make me press the button?"
I love that moment where she's fishing for the 'Love You' button without looking. xD
Yes!!! 🤣
All done = empty
Billy is getting creative with her word options
I bet humans have said all done multiple times when Billi has finished the food.
@@ecospider5 I would say they probably have said that whenever Billy has finished an activity, like eating, playing outsite, playing with her toys, etc. So she probably has a grasp of 'activity/thing coming to an end/a finish', and that's what all done means so she understands the phrase as much as a cat is able to.
@@LoreCatan It's fascinating.
@LoreCatan I guess you’re right they probably have used it more often than just food. Which would give Billi a descent grasp on the concept.
All done and all gone.. kind of similar but wild that she would know that.
She knows darn well SHE isn't all done lmao She knew she was finished I think.
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done=finished 🤣 She finished her food so it is all done. She isn't even wrong 🤣
I love it when she uses the Mad button 😂
Me too 😹
I always imagine an audience bursting into cheers: "Woohoo! She said the thing!!!"
@@jdm314 Maybe we could make it a drinking game... ;-)
@@jtidema I mean . u know she is going to press it anyway so u might as well drink the whole bottle beforehand xD
@@jtidema Only if you’re not doing anything the next day! 😸
She's like, "Ugh mom, isn't it obvious? I thought you had eyes in the back of your head!"
But mum, why aren’t you paying attention to every second of my day? Mad.
Basically 😹
Billi: If you don't know why I'm mad, I'm not going to tell you!
"I don't understand"
Billie "Mad - what is there to not understand?"
Mother, you mustn't take your eyes off me.🤣
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She says "Mom! Listen with your eyes!"
Honestly humans could be better at that 😹
hahaha so true!
I wish I could put a Kath n Kim meme here! (Aussies will know the one🤣)
Cheshire Cat: We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Alice: How do you know I’m mad?
Cheshire Cat: You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here.
Alice didn’t think that proved it at all.
It's so strange how she willingly press the buttons and then looks at her. It feels like a genuine conversation.
1. I think LATER MAD was a warning: "If you do not respond to my request, I am in danger of becoming ANGRY." It's kind of cool that she would think and attempt to express this thought (if my interpretation is correct).
2. What happened in the long pause after she says FOOD the first time? Were you busy on your phone or something?
3. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Talking Pets use LOVE YOU as a catch-all for "please," "thank you," and "sorry," in addition to its plain meaning.
For number 2 i think she was waiting to see if Billi was going to add more cos she was doing her thinking circle pacing.
Exactly!
As far as point 3 is concerned, some humans do that. Wouldn't surprise me if other animals did too honestly.
The way she looks at her after pressing the button 😂
Her MADjesty has spoken
Be it ever thus!
From Billi's perspective she gave you all the verbal clues: all done, later, mad, food... all you really needed was food and mad. She's pretty consistent. I make a request and if you blow me off, well, I'm mad. Now the Love you this time I took as a thank you for finally figuring out what I need/want. I don't think she meant it manipulative, just like a reinforcer for being a responsive human.
When she first pressed "food", I was imagining a 'processing' circle at your feet for a change. 😸
Poor Billi was hangry.
I swear, when Billy had to repeat the food button, she looked at mom as if mom was the slow kid in class...
Billi says: I told you already mom! Get with the program!
I wanna say this is kinda the way with domestic partners too - like: how can he not know to pass the pepper, we're having soup, and there's no pepper near me and I've been looking at him for 20 seconds +! 😬
You could just ask for the pepper...
Ok billi is so smart. She signals that her food is empty. And when she realised her mom couldn't understand she pressed the food button to clarify.
I think that was less Billi understanding that her human didn't understand what she meant, more that her human wasn't responding, so she tried something else.
Billi for president! She knows how to get things done!
you can see that she is already mad when she has to hit „all done“ the fourth time by her cheeky little tail twitch 😂
Wow - Billie translates "later" into the concept of waiting both being told "later", i.e. to wait, or by expressing frustration at being kept waiting, when telling her mom that her bowl was all done (aka empty)"
You weren't even in the room! How does she expect you to get a hint about an empty food bowl when you aren't even around.
I mean 🤷🏼♀️
I mean us humans sometimes do the same stuff expecting others to read our mind because we think it's super obvious but it isn't lol, makes sense a cat would do the same thing! I mean "All done" when you know the context obviously means the food is done and need filled..but we often forget others don't have that context and thus don't understand
We're supposed to always be watching them 🤣
We're their whole lives so they're positive they are ours 🤣
This never ceases to amaze me. really looks like a human child.
At about 4 yrs old? 😉
I love when she first presses food, then sits and looks up at you. Hahaha
You've committed an infraction akin to a belly pet :an empty bowl. My goodness, hell hath no fury like a Billi wronged!!😳
The way that she stretches making sure not to touch you 😄
Billi is not happy about the food situation in this restaurant.
One star!
Awww love billi stretching at mommy and then when she pushes her mad button and then when she pushes her love you button for mom 😺😸😻🥰😍💜❤️💖love you billi and mom she's such a cutie pie
Billi: "That was exasperating! but I love her when she finally gets it." 😂
Billi is a simple cat, she just wants food a lot of the time. I love how this video ended… with Love!!! Love is everything!!!
I’m always amazed when she uses the correct buttons in a conversation, even though I shouldn’t be. She reassures any doubts that might creep in about her getting lucky with the right button. She knows exactly what she’s saying!
Hahahahaha
Billi -I love you Mum, you silly human!
Interesting. Seeing the video watching Billi watch the empty bowl and then press all done (as in the food is all empty and eaten) was quite obvious to me. She is getting more clear and direct in her communication skills every time I see her. Fun to watch 😊
I am thinking of all the years and years we have been telling each other how not smart many animals are. I am sure that have done the same back at us. We so often miss non verbals from them. I feel I could have given my previous animals better lives if I had been more attuned to the small non verbals they give .
I could read the nonverbal communication from my cat better than I could humans.
We communicated really well after 12 years. Some friends were over and they picked up my cat Fred and said “can I put your cat in the microwave “ I said “whatever “
Them “what don’t you care?”
Me “Fred can take care of him self”
Them “Okayyyyyy” they carried him to the kitchen, Fred was all happy, they opened the microwave.
Me “Fred they are trying to hurt you”
Fred tore up their arm as he jumped away. He didn’t run through he just moseyed away after hitting the ground.
So much of communication is non verbal. Body language, tone…
@@ecospider5 I'm sorry, but what friends joke about putting your cat in the microwave, and then actually mimic doing it to see what your cat will do....
I hope you got better friends, that's some douchebag level shit. I wouldn't let them in my house again.
What a Meaningful Look this girl can give. 😹
Sometimes nonverbal is looking at the food bowl, and sometimes it's scratching an arm.
Billi you're so clever
I will never stop being fascinated by how Billie interprets things. "All done" was probably intended as a temporal thing, like this activity is over. She also uses it as "empty", as a descriptor of an item.
Done=finished
Imo lol! Smart little lady
"do I need to spell it out for you, mom?! Ugh" - Billi, definitely
🤣 mom: all done means something is all done.
Billi: all done means my food bowl is empty.
I mean yeah, if you look at it from their perspective. When we’re feeding pets or babies, what do we say when they take the last bite? “All done!” Or “All gone!” When we say it, we’re talking about the act of eating being complete, but the cat probably hasn’t made that connection yet and just thinks that it’s said when the bowl is empty
"Gee, Mom. What's wrong with your nose? Obviously, I was referring to the food not being there!"
Such a well behaved cat i love bille and your videos
Do you think those buttons would work with my teenager? She expects me to read her mind from across the house and goes straight to mad too!
Sure if you responded the exact same way each time they pressed a certain button. But our emotions make that hard to do.
It'd say give it a shot!
I wonder if she sometimes uses mad to express frustration at not having the correct word.
Possibly! That’s one theory for why her “mad”’s have decreased in frequency!
Yes. Add a button for "thank you", "bowl empty" and other specific button when you find that Billi needed more buttons - or watch Billi's actions more closely.
@@silencedogood7297 I think "all done" and "empty" should be different buttons, though they are confusingly close in concept to one another. I have no idea what you could do to model this distinction, except maybe recreate this scenario predictably? Monitoring the cat 24/7 seems a bit infeasible.
You know Billie is fed up when she’s walking in circles 🤣 😂😂😂😂😂😂
awww.. fluffy and cute as always
the cat is like „i told you that it is all done, but i am generous and give you 30 seconds to react. ok, no reaction, going to being mad now.“
The way she stretchs and rubs your legs when you approach her is like she's praising you for starting to put the pieces together. Like saying "you're getting warmer"
One of these days,an UBER will ring the doorbell with thirty pounds of Salmon.
That is too funny. Surely Mom can read her mind by now. 😆
Go You and Billi. You guys came to an understanding even though it was delayed. This is what matters.
When Billi, or any of us, is *assertive* about what she wants, the situation will be solved faster. This communication style started out *passive* in her request..."all done" was the status of her food. What does a person do with that statement?! 😳
But you kept with it! Go both of you 😊
Billi needs to do what my Kitlyn does...sit on Mom's hands so she stops using the phone, especially when she's trying to have a conversation. (I often want to do that with my adult daughter when I'm trying to have a conversation with her, too. I get it.)
I was thinking about this too - there was a pause after Billi hit food, so think Kendra might have been in her phone? I was thinking about how long that pause felt as I watched the video, and how log it might feel to Billi. It’s given me something to think about for my future
Interaction with both humans and cats..
That was perfect!
Billi like MAD! That button covers all kinds of messages, and it works, so .. lol
FOOD all done! SMART kitty! 🥰💝
MAD "You're not understanding me"
"Later"... AKA... taking too long to notice and respond!
I think it would be best if you just always pay attention just in case 😉
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Not paying attention to her every second that you're home from work is cause for getting yelled at by your cat. 🤣
oh my gosh! I haven't watched one of these in ages and Billi has SO MANY buttons! I'm so excited to watch them all!!
I love that Billi tried to press "love you" while looking up
This just became my favorite video 😻
Billi gets frustrated that humans are so “slow” to understand.
Just amazing how he communicates and knows what button to push!
I love the little hesitation before pressing 'Love you' button.
This cat lives a good life. I'm happy for her
I think Billi's love you is her way of saying, bless your heart.....❤
That's kind of amazing!!!
Just kind of? This woman just had a full-blown intelligent conversation with her talking cat.
Billi is like, these humans will never be trained. 😅
That's so impressive !
"MOTHER!" Billi cries. "My BOWL is EMPTY! This angers me! ... Mother, why don't you understand, I was very clear in my complaint? Why must my humans be so stupid 🙄?!"
Billi: “geez, this slow on the uptake woman!”😂😂
Haven't been keeping up with billis vids lately I missed watching her
How dare you not be watching Billi 24/7 so you would have seen lol :)
So cute!!
Billi: Why did I learn your language, when you never listen to me??
Oh my, she's too smart ❤️
So many thinking circles today.
Even I feel guilty and I didnt even do anything. 🤣🤣
When Billi says "I love you" I think she's happy that she's being acknowledged. She really likes interacting with you.
😂Billi is so smart n adorable 😂❤🥰😍😘🫰🫶