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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 12:48 AM Apr 2019

Dogs love to play fetch, but I have a cat who plays fetch!

Oh yeah!
My little cat Raven.

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This video was made a few years ago, but Raven still loves to play fetch.
She'll go grab the toy, and bring it back to me.

Anyone else have a cat that likes to play fetch?
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Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
1. Have had several. The Burmese were both very enthusiastic.
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 12:56 AM
Apr 2019

One Siamese was downright obsessed with it. The other Siamese would return it to my lap, then my feet, then a couple of feet in front of me... I'm fairly sure he was trying to train me to fetch it myself.

lastlib

(23,239 posts)
16. My Burmese Inky loved to play fetch with a hazel nut!
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 10:20 AM
Apr 2019

She would bat it down the stairs with her paw, then go down and get it, lather rinse, repeat! If I rolled it across the floor, she would fetch and bring it back to me for more! She was hilarious to watch! The hazel nut was her favorite toy! ---

applegrove

(118,674 posts)
2. My captain Morgan does. He'll drop some toy, usually something he found,
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 12:57 AM
Apr 2019

on me. And then we're on. I throw it again and again and he brings it back to me each time. He taught it to himself. Fun to see a cat doing it.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)
3. All of my cats were fetchers in their youth.
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 01:06 AM
Apr 2019

Now that they are retired, they limit themselves to sedate swats at catnip toys, followed by naps.

Rhiannon12866

(205,426 posts)
4. Very cute! My Felix loves to chase them, but needs to learn to always bring them back
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 01:18 AM
Apr 2019

He's also a black kitty - and he could use the exercise. His vet said he needed to lose a pound by his next checkup - but instead he'd gained one.

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)
5. I had a black cat who played fetch
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 01:34 AM
Apr 2019

We had a very long hallway and I'd throw the ball down and she'd chase it and bring it back to me. If she was in the mood to play and I wasn't doing anything, she'd get the ball out of the toy basket and would pat me with her paw to get my attention.

She's been gone a long time, but she lived to be 21.

happybird

(4,608 posts)
6. My first cat played fetch
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 01:39 AM
Apr 2019

but only with foil balls. I'd make them a little smaller than a golf ball.

I come from a long line of dog people (on both sides of the family) and was the first to get a cat. I got Frannie when I was in college to keep my Lab company while I was in class. Having no clue about cats, I treated Frannie like a little dog. She would sit on command (for treats) and come when called. She didn't figure out how to cat until I got a kitten a few years later, lol! Frannie ruled the house with an iron paw until she passed away at age 17.

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
7. Because they were raised as "Puppy Cats"...
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 02:47 AM
Apr 2019

ALL my cats have been taught to fetch.
Wadded tin foil balls or even mini super balls have been faves...

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
9. I had a black and white tuxedo named Jake.
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 03:46 AM
Apr 2019

Jake would "play fetch" with his favorite ball. He would play as long as someone would throw the ball for him. He would bring the ball and drop it at your feet. When you stopped responding to that, he would jump into your lap and try to give you the ball to keep you playing. He was found as a small kitten almost frozen to death. I work on warming him and then for several days after that feeding him, first with warm tea with corn syrup and then with weak kitten formula, increasing the milk content each day. Loved that cat!

Silver Gaia

(4,544 posts)
10. My daughter has a cat, part Bengal, who loooooves to play fetch.
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 04:55 AM
Apr 2019

She especially loves to fetch those toys made of krinkly cellophane. Her name is Olive.

jpak

(41,758 posts)
11. Yes
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 05:12 AM
Apr 2019

He is 17 YO this month an LOVES to play fetch with paper wads.

He even gets into the printer and pulls out sheets of paper for me tear up.

He got into my wallet once, when he was a kitten, and brought me a $20 bill to throw.

(It was 4:30 AM and I did it - never saw it again!)

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
14. My TigerLil is an obsessive fetcher! She will bring me toys every morning...
Sun Apr 14, 2019, 07:54 AM
Apr 2019

And play fetch like a puppy. Only one of my lifetime of adored felines who does it.
She comes when she is called and is affectionate with every single human she comes in contact with on any day.
Best puppy-cat ever!

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