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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Jollyllama@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

My cat will play fetch for as long as I throw her little mouse toy. She'll even let me throw it from bed and she'll bring it right back up for me to throw again.

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[-] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Another one!

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

One of mine does! His name is Porkchop and he will only fetch and return plastic water bottle caps.

[-] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mine will only fetch the mice, she once brought us a real mouse in the middle of the night.

[-] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

"Look, I fetched!"

[-] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Apparently ppl here hate reddit, but for those who don't, r/catscarryingstuffies has kitties that play fetch fairly often. So, yes, it happens, but I don't think it's too common

[-] shish_mish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My cat does

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Mine did as a kitten. He’d even bring the toy back to throw again!

At some point he stopped bringing the toy back so now we don’t play fetch. We play throw once and stare.

[-] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

One of ours did that too, she also grew out of it.

Our dog doesn't even play fetch. :(

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Same for ours, but we think it’s cause she learned we’d go get it even if she didn’t.

[-] fitjazz@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 month ago

My grey, Starbuck, is my 4th cat that loves to play fetch. Every night he picks which toy he wants to play with and just before bed he brings it to us to throw.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Only 2 of them did it their whole lives… Ginger now considers it servitude, but would literally fetch milk rings or mice until both my girlfriend and I got worn out… two and a half hours IIRC. She was so fast, like 30-40 mice a minute.

[-] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think the longest we've played fetch was may 30-40 minutes before I gave up. I'll need to try for a marathon, a fetch-a-thon

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean that was two (humans) trading off until we both collapsed with arms limp like overcooked pasta. I’m pretty sure Ginger would have gone all day… she’s 13 now and mostly just stares judgmentally at me ;-)

[-] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

One cat likes to bat around a stuffed salmon and flip it up in the air to chase after. The other bats a ball around and plays fetch with herself, no human interaction desired.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Mine will chase after something if i throw it but then she expects me to come pick it up and throw it the other direction haha.

[-] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Yes - especially with chopsticks

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My handsome boy has a toy fish he brings to me. Well, he brings it wherever he sleeps and sometimes that is on my legs. Sometimes he just brings it to me. He really likes that fish.

He will play fetch with those plastic springs. Those disappeared for a while. I had to do some work behind my fridge yesterday and found over 15 of them hiding under there.

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 1 points 1 month ago

I have had a couple cats who do this! It's adorable. It does mean I've woken up with cat toys in my bed, though.

[-] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I've seen other comments pointing their cats only doing it when kittens, but I am happy to report that my 3 and a half year old boy does still play it. I throw aluminium foil balls and he loves playing soccer with them and giving them back to me so I can throw them again

[-] Tinks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So cute! My Maine Coon played fetch too. He preferred the shiny little balls of tinsel, but would also play with toy mice. I never taught him, he just brought me a toy one day and stood on my chest so I threw it to get him off me (he was big) and he brought it back. After a few times doing this I realized I was playing fetch with him and we did it his whole life 😊

[-] FrankieEggs@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

My void does, he has little sushi toys he likes to play fetch with and he always brings them back :)

[-] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I had a cat that played fetch. When he was young fellow, he'd fetch and bring the toy back to me. Eventually he'd only bring the toy most of the way back, and I had to cover the remaining distance. Then he'd bring the toy back some of the way back, and it eventually turned into him running to where the toy ended up, sitting down next to it, and looking at me like "Okay, I found where you tossed the toy, now come over and get it so we can do this again". He still loved to play, but it seemed he kind of outgrew the fetch thing.

[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I have 3 cats, and one of them plays fetch. Although he typically gets bored after a dozen throws or so.

[-] popsalottacornsyrup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We're on our third cat that we've taught to fetch! Now....do they always bring it back in arms reach. No. But most of the time we'll get either more throws than our arm will tolerate or 3 throws and then indifference.

[-] BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

My wife trained one of our cats to play fetch just a few days ago! She absolutely loves it now (the cat, not my wife. Though my wife does still have fun with it).

[-] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know of two belonging to two separate friends that would fetch.

Wagler was particularly good at it and would fetch just about everything, bring it right to you, and bite you for your troubles. This was 25 years ago and I haven't kept in touch. I suspect Wagler is no longer with us.

Honey demands wadded up paper balls to fetch and adorably half-asses it getting either distracted and playing with one instead, or just wandering off and only remembering later that he was doing it.

I grew up with a load of cats and have never had one that was remotely interested.

[-] IngressCloaked@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

My youngest cat did when she was little... but has basically stopped a couple years ago. I think it's because she's bigger and I can't throw the crinkle balls far enough. lol I got a gun that shoots little felt balls, but she doesn't like those balls (but my oldest cat loves to walk around with one of those balls in her mouth while singing us an opera).

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mine loves paying fetch, but she doesn't really fetch, she just runs after it and gives it some slaps, than looks at me and meows until I get it and throw it again

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not fetch but he does have a favorite plushie toy that he takes with him wherever he goes. So adorable.

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Four of my seven will bring me a ball to play fetch.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

Serious question. With seven cats, how bad does your house smell?

[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It does not. But litter is a daily chore. Litter boxes live in the laundry room and the garage.

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