My cat plays fetch.

[beck0321]

It's cute, but weird. He likes to use those rubber bracelets, which I used to wear. He goes into the spare bedroom and finds them from various places, brings them downstairs to me or DH, drops it in front of us and meows until we start the "fetch game." We throw it all the way across the room, he runs to get it and continues until WE get tired (notice I didn't say HE). If you don't play with him he sits there and stares at you and meows until you get so tired of hearing him you have no chioce to play. I don't have kids so I don't know, but it seems he is more demanding of attention than a child! We have two other cats and they don't do this. He is not the baby, but is small and acts like one!
Just thought I'd share. Does anyone else have an animal like this?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I have a fetching kitty.

She has a distinct meow when she finds a fuzzy ball. She's getting lazy though and doesn't run for it so much any more. Our new game is to throw it in the air and she will stand/jump (blown knees in hind quarters--so she can't use those to really jump) and will catch the ball.

Whenever we get behind furniture to move it or just clean--we'll find a bunch of balls and she is like a crazy kid in a candy store.

Mreow....mreow...MREOW...all the while clutching a ball by an iddy biddy piece.

She's 10 1/2 and has been doing this since she was a kitten.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I have one cat who will do this - I throw the mousie and she will go get it. I love when she comes back to me and drops it in front of me - she is so cute when she is all proud of herself and carrying her "catch" back!!!! The only difference is I have to intiate it - and when I stop she is good - she doesn't cry to keep it going. Oh - and she will only do this in our bedrooom - no where else. They are so much fun!!!!

 

[vetrik]

I have a fetching cat. He had one fuzzy mouse that was his fetching mouse and he would always do it in the bedroom. I loved watching him carry it back!

He used to do it a lot when he lived with DH before we were married and he was the only cat (but he would only fetch for me and not for DH ). Unfortunately, he doesn't do it any more since we moved in together and I brought my cat. Maybe he's too insecure to fetch with another cat around.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

One of mine just started to do this a couple days ago and it's only with his one favorite jingle ball. He brought it to me, dropped it, and then looked up at me and I got what he was telling me. I then realized that he'd tried to get me to do it before, but I just hadn't gotten what he was telling me. Oh, our dogs won't play fetch.

The last fetching cat we had was years ago. It was a cat that we had when we were first married and he fetched when we lived in Wisconsin. When we moved to Virginia he stopped fetching. Like vetrik, I figured that he was stressed by the move.

 

[Saphire]

Yes! We call our kitty 'Lily Dog' (on left) because she is smart and also acts more like a dog...playing fetch, greeting us at door, following right behind us when walking around, etc. She played fetch more when she was a kitten, but will still do it when in a feisty mood. The other guy, Charlie, isn't quite as 'bright'. His biggest pleasure is jumping on empty plastic bags as he goes sliding along the kitchen floor.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I have cats that will only play this game on the stairs. Well years ago my middle cat found a bag of those fuzzy pom-poms in the craft room. So of course he opened it and brought them out around the house. He started standing at the top of the stairs and batting down to you. So you'd throw it back and he'd bat it back to you. That was his favorite game. He has gotten older and won't play anymore. So the youngest cat plays the stairs game now. Except he usually takes the toy and runs away and hides with it. Whenever we find his hiding place I bet we will find years worth of missing toys.

 

[Poohgirl]

My dog, a cockapoo, plays soccer. Loves it. He will push the ball with his mouth to dribble and head butt it like a kick. My son and I will play him two on one and he usually beats us!

 

[eclectics]

I've got one. She'll only do it with one of her pre-approved "mousies" though, of which she has around 24 by now because she hides them and I have to go out and buy new ones all the time. The other two cats want nothing to do with this "game".

 

[Tazicket]

Aww! I'm jealous! My cat just plays "Lay on the ground and stare your human like they're an idiot."

 

[beavismom]

We have a dog trapped in a kitty body as well. She doesn't fetch as much as she used to, but she still does it. She still "hunts" for us every night though. She will go through the house and bring things to us and pile them outside the bedroom door. We wake up to all kinds of stuff... kid socks, craft pom poms, cat toys, pretty much anything she can carry in her mouth.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Yes! We call our kitty 'Lily Dog' (on left) because she is smart and also acts more like a dog...playing fetch, greeting us at door, following right behind us when walking around, etc. She played fetch more when she was a kitten, but will still do it when in a feisty mood. The other guy, Charlie, isn't quite as 'bright'. His biggest pleasure is jumping on empty plastic bags as he goes sliding along the kitchen floor.

My cat looks JUST like yours--only less fluffy and with 3 visible spots instead of one. She's the fetching cat in our household . Her brother is just plain lazy.

 

[DVCLiz]

Our one year old kitten is a fetcher, too, but only with "the banana." It's a cloth banana stuffed with catnip, and it has been her constant companion since last Christmas morning. It is pretty sad looking now, but she is still madly in love with it. She'll fetch it for us as long as we want to throw it - I can sit on my bed and toss it down the hall, and she'll go racing to get it - I can hear her claws on the hardwood as she rounds the corner. She also sleeps with it most nights - if she's been sleeping on the foot of my bed, and I've flipped the covers off at any time during the night, I'll sometimes find it under the covers with me in the morning!

 

[Saphire]

My cat looks JUST like yours--only less fluffy and with 3 visible spots instead of one. She's the fetching cat in our household . Her brother is just plain lazy.

Here she is from the front. Does she still look like your kitty?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Here she is from the front. Does she still look like your kitty?

YEP--except hubby would say mine looks more "dumb"...she's got that "HUH?" look all the time.

 

[Chicago526]

Cool! I can't get my dog to play fetch, and she's part labrador retriever !

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Aww! I'm jealous! My cat just plays "Lay on the ground and stare your human like they're an idiot."

We have one of those cats, too!

Cool! I can't get my dog to play fetch, and she's part labrador retriever !

One of our dogs is the same non-fetching variety. It goes like this--I fetch the toy, she runs and gets it, takes off with it, and then says, "You come and get it, I'm too special to bring it back to you". Tell me who's trained?

 

[tigerdragon]

I used to have a cat that would go on walks with us around the neighborhood. She would also knock on the door by hitting it with her paw when she wanted in the house. She was a very smart cat. Unfortunately, she passed away a few years ago but we have a lot of great memories of her.

 

[Tazicket]

We have one of those cats, too!

She also plays "Give me treats right now or I'll run in front of you and trip you!" (She doesn't always win this game) But no fetch for our spoiled kitty cat.

 

[beck0321]

Aww! I'm jealous! My cat just plays "Lay on the ground and stare your human like they're an idiot."

Oh trust me, I have one like that too. His name is Dempsie and all he does is stare at you from across the room. It's kind of freaky sometimes.

Bengal is the one that fetches, he is a short hair red tabby (just like tigger). When his puplils are diatlated, his entire eye is BLACK! And when he stares at me with those big eyes, that freaks me out as well!