That was the cutest

SAME

omg I didn't see that video . I want to see it!!!!

@@ramona4913 I think it's called "mom pets"??? not sure but that should be close!

@@jerrahaynes1564 It's Billi pets mom!

Typical Saturday 😹

It was actually a cat making plans for the evening with her human XD

@@MD-vq9yv 😭😭

@@blorb2870 you have a cool pfp

Billie might have said it in cat language but we humans don't understand much cat language.

@@Catlily5 not to be the one guy but cat language isnt words, its more smell and body language

@@Humulator Exactly. I am talking about body language.

@@Catlily5 oh thats embrassing

cat can speak but they dont engage in conversation with other cats like humans do which is funny

yes I think she feels stimulated and happy to expand her comunication options or maybe im reading too deep into it since its a cat??

That's a reach

Thank you for giving me new words, human!

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Ohhhhh.... 🤔😬

exactly. I would be very frightened since they have better senses and can feel natural disasters earlier too

Stop stereotyping

cats can walk through snow and keep all four feet in the tracks pretty crazy actually

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This is absolutely true! My cat always shows up at around 4:45, because she gets fed at 5:00. She sits there and stares at me. Then I say “pretty soon,” and she relaxes an settles down to wait until 5:00. My late dog did this also. My cat also gets treats later in the evening. She approaches me with her cutest face and meows when she’s ready for treats. Sometimes she does this after she’s already had her allotment of treats for the day. I always say “treats all gone for today. Tomorrow we have more treats.” She understands this. It’s important to use the same words when talking to your pet. They learn faster that way. They can even learn to spell! With my dog, we would spell treat to avoid him getting too excited. But he quickly learned that t-r-e-a-t also meant treat!

@@lisaspikes4291 my dog got the same way with w. a. l. k.

Lux Borealis: Cant base everything on two pets. The world of language will expand. Follow Russel the cat: ukposts.info/the/freE_NAbcEYPoHq-xV-bFg.html

Never heard of any kid being able to survive on their own, catch their meals, find or build their shelter, organize their social structures etc. Yet people are adamant to compare the mental abilites fo animals to the mental abilities of children. ETA You are somehow claiming Bunnys is smarter than Billi, when the difference is in how many words they have been taught, which says nothing about how many they are able to learn. It is not their mental abilities that are consistent with a certain age, but their knowledge of our language. And how can they be compared to humans anyway when no human ever has been able to learn the barking language of dogs or was fluent in cat speak.

I agree on almost everything except your age ranges. I don't think you've talked to actual 8-12 year in your entire adult life lmao.

@@y.sangare1238 Why does this bother you so much? When it comes to survival skills&instincts, those are still taught adult-animal to young-animal (usually mothers, but some animals live in larger groups or have co-parenting pairs teaching their young, or even moms of different species teaming up (even outside of artificial scenarios like animal sanctuaries and ethical zoos.) You don’t expect a domesticated animal to “automatically survive”-if they can’t adapt they die. That’s also the risk for rehabilitating wild animals and why they sometimes become “animal ambassadors” under the care of liscenced and trained professionals Seeing where an animal’s language and problem-solving skills (for human language and concepts) are comparatively to a human’s is honestly one of the most harmless, curiosity-driven research that can be done. And these are domesticated animals-their food and shelter are guarenteed. Domesticated animals are also so fundamentally different from their wild ancestors that they’re no longer “counterparts” in the same way a captive-bred budgie would be to a wild budgie in Australia; they’re completely different species. So, yeah. For domesticated animals language is a Higher Priority for skills-development than hunting. And for a more serious application? Did you know that humans who don’t recieve sufficient language and tool stimulation are permanently stunted? There have been too many kids neglected and abused by their caregivers that never progress linguistically (and therefore mentally) beyond “mentally 2-3” or up to “5” if they are VERY lucky-and that’s all with them finally getting stable environments and love and routine therapy. Their brains simply crowd out their language (and motor) centers from that lack of stimulation needed as babies (and the longer they’re kept there, the least likely they are to recover even marginally.) So here are domesticated animals-their brains are NOT “initially” developed for language to be so critical as it is for humans. However as part of human-domestication these animals still undergo changes that make them genetically different to the point of speciefication outside of Fur Length/texture/color or size. We already know that one breed of domesticated animal can have a drastically different temperment or activity level within the same species (ie, a husky verses a terrier. Drastically different breeds but still Domesticated Dog as species vs Wolf (and wolf species)) Is it too much to assume that this process has also affected animal’s sound/signal recognition beyond clicker and spotter training for captive wild animals? And if that’s the case for domesticated companion vs lifestock species, then maybe it can give some insights into how to better help our most vulnerable. (That aside, documenting animal-adaption in real-time is very cool. If humans evolved from apes and greater apes are capable of learning and communicating with signlanguage (see: Coco the Gorilla. Coco also taught her offspring, made jokes (“Coco made joke. Coco laughs.”), and even kept a pet cat and grieved for it (which some wild animals keep “pets” that go beyond a co-beneficial relationship)) then is it really that hard to believe that human-domestication of companion animals have altered them?)

@@anonymousfellow8879 one small correction (from someone who's been obsessed with Koko the gorilla since she was a child): unfortunately, she never had offspring. Given her environment and lack of interaction with many other gorillas, she was never comfortable enough to mate. Another gorilla, Michael, was brought in to be a potential mate for her, but he ended up being more of an adopted brother (and learned sign language as well!). Perhaps you're thinking of a different ape who taught their offspring?

Yeah, noon is a pretty human-y concept so, I think, would be afternoon.

It's not odd. It just takes time to teach, as it does to a human species.

🤔 A domestic animal is pretty used to humans leaving at morning and coming back in the afternoon, so that would be an easy way to tie it to something visible... "now morning mom bye, then afternoon mom hello"

@@TT-_- actually yeah this could work

@@TT-_- except Billi tries to prevent mom going, so I think teaching it this way would be stressful. Tying "afternoon" to returning from work might be helpful, though.

I’m still giddy 🤩

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@@violetviolet888 oh I love Russell too, it would be amazing if the two met!

I hope it doesnt sound rude but most probably she was just mimiching her human that every morning, during her morning routine, would use the morning button. To me it looked more like she was connecting certain behaviours (like what you do in the morning when you wake up like brushing your teeth) to the word morning. That being said it was very cute

@@sorellla That's what learning words and vocabulary means. Pattern recognition and positive reinforcement, for humans, dogs, cats, etc.

There was even more to it: "Morning then soon night outside"

Maybe! I won’t rule anything out at this point.

@@BilliSpeaks It might further help with the time concepts, depending on how high she can learn to count. Even understanding, two or three days might help when she is anticipating something (friend visits, for example).

@@Juleru Amazing

@@Juleru Amazing

😂 sad but true!!

Looks like the new words are Billi's special treat.

Ur not supposed to give them treats it will offset the wrong signal in the brain but her new buttons are a treat

The treat is getting to make future plans with her human. Let's hope the plans are usually kept. I can only imagine mom trying to cancel a "date" via an answering machine. Could you explain it to her in under 30 seconds?

Cats are very good at time? They can do the days of the week, too. My cats are obviously weirded out when I leave the house "out of schedule".

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This was my favourite part too! Like she was actually saying “good morning”!

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Yup remember when Indy got the kitchen door open lol 😅🥰

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Or she had been meowing “morning” and we didn’t understand 😂

It is Food o'clock.

Yep, no sleeping late with a cat! Unless you can fall asleep after feeding them!

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@@violetviolet888 Yes I know of Russell he is a very smart boi and I love him but this is not his channel so pls stop spamming all the comments as if it is

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She deserves all the furnishings!

I mean, it is a little subjective what exactly counts as "afternoon" in English too

@@woodfur00 yeah I take it pretty literally, as in everything before 12 noon is morning and everything after 12pm and before dark is afternoon. But where I live, people say "good morning" until it's dark out, idgi

How long does it take a human to understand afternoon (at least 5 years). Don't forget Russel the cat: ukposts.info/the/freE_NAbcEYPoHq-xV-bFg.html

@@Flanneryschickens Yeah and taking it literally by the clock presents its own problems when you're, you know, a cat who can't read a clock…

Perhaps try to tie it into the sun in the sky. Sun going up is morning. Sun going lower is afternoon. Sun up high is noon or midday.

Also, Billi says she is happy when she is learning her new words. That is just amazing. She has a sense of intellectual accomplishment

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@@Marilinaa Yes! That's incredible.

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Tina P: You are *assuming* what you are thinking. Animals are smarter than humans give them credit for, just because they can't speak English. How about we try to learn THEIR language and WE speak their language? Don't forget Russel the cat: ukposts.info/the/freE_NAbcEYPoHq-xV-bFg.html

@@violetviolet888 I have no idea who Russel the cat is but I really don't need to in order to reply to your insult. First, none of my comments were defamatory to cats. Quite the contrary. I have lived with at least one cat in my home for the last 40 years. During most of that time I have worked outside the home. My cats figured out in about 2 nanoseconds that Human got up, showered and left five days of the week with a few 3 day weekends thrown in. If they wanted anything they knew to alert me to the issue before I had to leave for work. They also knew when I would get home and would be waiting for me to tell me about their day. They spoke Cat and I spoke English and we understood each other perfectly. I have never thought nor stated that cats are unintelligent. As I said in my first comment, cats quickly adapt to our schedules and Human concepts of Morning, Afternoon and Night, even if we don't vocalize to them our terms, Morning, Afternoon and Night. In my first comment I stated that Billi quickly understood our words, Morning, Afternoon and Night matching those words to to correct time of day. How anyone could misinterpret that into thinking I was saying cats are unintelligent is baffling. I also said that "there was a lot going on in that little head of hers" meaning that she was thinking at a very high level. So, I know that cats are intelligent. But, I don't know what you meant when you said that I was "assuming what your are thinking". Perhaps you could clarify that for me.

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An interesting scifi series comes to mind "The Uplift Wars" by David Brin (also wrote "Ender's Game".) Animals can be "uplifted" to true sentience. Only the entire species then owes one million years of slave labor to the culture that uplifted them. Humans enter space. No one uplifted us, we just are. Mass confusion. Then, when we learn process, we start uplifting our animals: dolphins, great apes, whales etc. AND NOT CHARGING THEM ANYTHING. Immense change in galactic economics. So ... War. But the fascinating idea is that animals reach a point where they just need a nudge, they're almost there, but need a nudge to gain sentience. Billi's making me wonder ...

@@veramae4098 Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game.

I think you're right. But I also think since they learned buttons by moving to the button they have to come up with the word they want to use with movement.

I'm sorry, I thought the were crepuscular("Dämmerungsaktiv" in German), but wiki now says they are more varied and can be active all day or night. In my experience they are outside on patrol in the twilight hours, and take part in some human activity during the day (sharing the haul/spoil/quarry) during the humans meal, because we are more active then, and have wild races through the house at night, occasionally, to keep their humans ready to fight off a night time attacker. Very thoughtful of the cats, in nearly all cases not rewarded with appropriate enthusiasm by humans .

They are not just nocturnal. They are crepuscular. Don't forget Russel the cat: ukposts.info/the/freE_NAbcEYPoHq-xV-bFg.html

Yes!

Yep! Cats are naturally crepescular

Considering how well they see in low light, like it day, could they tell the difference? I mean, their dusk might happen further into the night and their dawn might be sooner than our dawn.

@@mudkipjuice They're diurnal, not crepuscular. Early morning and late evening. This is because their prey is typically also diurnal.

Love.Angel.MusicLady: Absolutely! Cats are *crepuscular*. Don't forget Russel the cat: ukposts.info/the/freE_NAbcEYPoHq-xV-bFg.html

Perhaps using a sundial so she can see the passage of time -- at least the place where morning turns to afternoon. 😉 I agree that afternoon may have little meaning or use beyond what is now expressed by 'soon' or later. Seems to me Mom may use it to indicate how long the particular 'later' might last until.

Me too, me too...

Thank you!

I scrolled so far just to find that answer lol. Yes, nothing significantly shows it's not random, so far.

She has occasionally been using 'before' in a seeming attempt at narration about the dog. That may be easier now with time periods being available.

How will she manage her servant's schedule without the proper terms?

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I also think these buttons are making billi more smart than she already naturally is. It's forming more folds in her brain for sure

Yeah, cats being pissed the Breakfast is one hour late, constantly, and people go to bed one hour late, so they need to go to the bed and their warming devices cone later ;-) Very annoying.

Hahaha I don’t even understand daylight savings so I guess good luck to me 😂

@@BilliSpeaks I do seem to remember the feeder timer needing to be reset with Billi saying "look" and walking you over to the empty dish. Was that a daylight saving time issue?

@@LindaVernon that was a “mom forgot to turn the feeder back on” issue. Had to fast her for blood work.

I can tell you cats are very aware of daylight saving time. I am visiting people in my job, helping them with various things. Usually I come at the same time and so when I visited a lady her cat was meowing like crazy because it wanted food. But one time it wasn't around and I was very surprised and so was the lady. And all of a sudden it struck me. The time had been changed. That was quite interesting! It couldn't be anyting else. They really have a strong internal clock.

Also... i still love her figure 8s between words :D

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