Do you have a cat that likes to play fetch?

Poppy drives us batty. She loves the milk rings, and will jump onto our computer with her ring, for us to throw it, then she goes and gets it, and brings it back. I can't type!! I guess I will have to leave.

Hi Catmint... My cat Trouble loves them too. He loves to throw it, pounce on it and looks so funny when he carries it in his mouth then he brings it to me and drops it in my slipper and tries to dig for it. There is where I draw th line because he tears up my feet trying to get it out. I have taught two cats to fetch. I would throw a crumpled piece of paper up on the inside balcony and they would run up the spiral staircase and get it and bring it back down to me. Cats are alot smarter than people give them credit for. If you take the time you can teach them.

Have a good Wednesday, Karen

We've always had cats that like to play fetch. Both of my little kitties play with milk rings, batting them around the floor, chasing them and carting them around, but they don't play fetch with them.

My old kitteh played fetch with those cellophane safety rings that are around jar lids and tubs of sour cream. I would tie them in a knot and when he heard the crinkly, crackling cellophane noise, he'd come running. I'd toss it and he would run after it and bring it back for more, but he was only interested in cellophane and nothing else would do.

One of our young kitties loves to play fetch with those feathery catnip toys and she drops them at my feet when she wants them tossed. Sometimes in the morning she will bring her toy to me -- not DH -- while I'm still in bed and asleep.  Let me tell you, there's nothing better than a wad of slobbery wet feathers dropped on your face at the crack of dawn to wake a person up.

The things we well-trained humans do to amuse our furbabies... sheesh!

Scruff aways did like the milk rings, he would toss it in the air, bat it around and have a great time but never played fetch with them.

Besides, I think he taught me to play fetch!  One day he was playing with a plastic popsicle stick and came up to me with it in his mouth. I took it and tossed it, he picked it up, brought it back and dropped it at my feet. Then I opened the sliding glass doors that led to the patio and tossed it out there. We played fetch until he finally just plopped on the floor and let me know that was enough play time. lol

Souchef, She never gets tired. LOL She wears us out first.  She has been needy all morning,

LP, I have to keep those cellophane things away from Grimley. For some reason, he has tried to eat things like that. He loves milk rings, too, was the first to play with them. I have cleaned about 20 at a time from under the fridge. Tells you how much I clean under there.

Fetch??  Nope!  You throw something, and if they deign to go after it, they keep it!

 my cat "the beast" love to play fetch with rolled up paper..the fun is ruined when my dog wally wants to play..he ends up eating my cat's paper.

My late, beloved, Temujin loved to fetch things.  Fetch sometimes being a synonym for stealing things from the neighbor.  She used to throw him her balled-up empty cigarette packs.  Then one day he brought us her watch.  She was somewhat less than amused.

Patchi fetches, but only ring-shaped things or coiled up twist-ties.

Chika doesn't so much fetch, as drag her favorite (fishing pole) toy into the room and stand on it in front of me, yowling to have it pulled for her.

Buddy and Binky don't fetch.

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She loves the milk rings, and will jump onto our computer with her ring, for us to throw it, then she goes and gets it, and brings it back.

My tabby does the same exact thing only most of the time he drops it on the floor by my computer chair and stares at me until I pick it up and throw it.

Love these stories.

Poppy also has a very long big shoelace that she loves. She'll drag it real slowly through the house, waiting for her Brother, or big Half-Brother to play with her.

 Cricket has about a dozen different toy mice all over the house. She's brings one in the morning and drops it on my pillow. We play fetch with her all the time. Bubba has her twisting in the air like a dog trying to catch a frisbee. We have a lot of fun with her.  

We adopted Midnight and Glinda in December. Midnight will take a long piece of fleece we have for them to chase and carry it in her mouth, lay it down and meow until someone plays with her. It's amazing. I've had a few cats and none have ever done this. Both girls love to play and I've left a plastic Easter egg out for them to chase. They LOVE it. They will knock it down the stairs and meow until someone brings it back up for them. So, yes they play fetch, except the humans are the ones fetching!

Maine Coons are supposed to be notorious fetch players, but I've only had one who would do it, and then only as a kitten.  The rest will chase after something thrown, but won't bring it back.  

I have one whose favorite game is for me to hide treats like you'd hide Easter eggs, and then he gets to go all over the house finding them.  He's too good at this game, though, & can find the treats as fast as I can hide them!  I've caught him looking in places where I might have once hidden a treat, so I know his grey matter is very actively working.  Smarty pants cat!

 Yes.  I've told before about how a neighbor (with whom we shared and eclosed porch) used to throw balled up cigarette packets to Temujin, which became less funny the day he "fetched" home her wristwatch.

 Patchi loves ring-shaped things, which became a problem when my husband dropped his wedding ring and she stole and hid it.  (We eventually found it, between the wall and a heavy piece of furniture).

 Buddy-boy drag blankets around the house.  Mostly when we're not home, so there isn't much we can do about it.

 Chika carries toys around in their mouths.

 And Binky's favorite toys are the twist-tops from bottled water.  Turned one way, he can carry them, and turned the other, they make a great noise when he whacks them across the kitchen floor.  (And left upturned, they really hurt when humans step on them.)

Our big male cat likes to play fetch.  You can tell him to 'bring it here' & he'll drop what he's playing with at your feet & then play fetch.  My DH & I are pretty sure he understands quite a bit of what we say...or else, coincidentally, we'll say something & he'll do it :-)   All 3 of our cats love those milk rings...they're all over our floors...a neighbor stopped by once & her husband started picking them up off our kitchen floor...I told him to leave the cat toys alone.