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Jeremy - 13 Jul 2006 05:08 GMT any one else have a cat that plays fetch
-- Jeremy
Bttngl - 13 Jul 2006 07:36 GMT Yes, isn't it weird. She's more dog than cat. She brings me a toy, waits on edge for me to throw it, races so that she slides on the tile and almost crashes into the door, grabs the toy, races back, drops it, "murr-rou" (like ouch) then, poses ready to run and fetch again. When she wants to play, she also will come and stand up fully and reach up as high as she can and 'taps' me with a mitten paw, like "hey, remember me?", then, once she has my attention, it is back to the game again. She also heels, walking by my side. Sits by my legs (or on the back of my chair) until we say "get you some business" and then she gets her some "gone" hahahaha.
> any one else have a cat that plays fetch? Ryan Robbins - 13 Jul 2006 09:10 GMT > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? My parents had a cat named James whom I taught to fetch when he was a kitten. It was hilarious. I would toss coffee can covers across the room and he would chase them down and return them. A couple of times I was able to give the covers enough hang time for James to catch them.
Unfortunately, as I went along in high school and had less and less free time to play with him, our thing stopped. When he died in 1997, I buried him with a coffee can cover.
Lesley - 13 Jul 2006 11:11 GMT > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? I've had two!
Fugazi (RB) used to carry her play rope in and expect you to throw it so she could catch it and bring it back. At the time I thought it was unusual but then when we got Sarrasine she does it as well....with anything...she even brings it to me and drops it at my feet and if I don't immediately pick it up and throw it again then she taps me on the knee to make sure I know she's waiting for another throw
Lesley
Slave of the Fabulous Furballs
RobZip - 13 Jul 2006 16:48 GMT > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? My two red male cats do. They are 2 years old now. Spot will chase and fetch empty cigarete packs. Nacho will fetch milk jug rings. Each will run after and play with the others favorite fetch items, but will not bring it back.
Grawun - 13 Jul 2006 18:16 GMT > > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? > > > My two red male cats do. They are 2 years old now. Spot will chase and > fetch empty cigarete packs. Nacho will fetch milk jug rings. Each will run > after and play with the others favorite fetch items, but will not bring it > back. My Maine Coon plays fetch. When she first came to live with me I read that MC's like to play fetch and I tried to teach her. Didn't work. One day she found a cellophane wrapped cough drop. She brought it to me and dropped it on the floor and looked at me expectantly so I threw it and she just about flew after it and fetched it back to me! Maybe the twisty ends were easy to pick up. Maybe she liked the smell of the cough drop. Maybe she just wanted to do it her way.
RobZip - 13 Jul 2006 22:43 GMT >> > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? >> > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > twisty ends were easy to pick up. Maybe she liked the smell of the > cough drop. Maybe she just wanted to do it her way. With Spot it isn't just cigarete packs that get his interest. Cellophane wrappers off a variety of items get his interest going but the combination of paper, foil, and cellophane in the packs makes for an easy to handle item that is lively enough to keep his attention going.
Magic Mood Jeep© - 13 Jul 2006 22:45 GMT > any one else have a cat that plays fetch? I have two that play fetch. One of them, Moe (spayed female DSH) will play fetch with botlecaps. The metal bottlecaps, like from a beer bottle (if she even hears us open a beer, she comes running and *begs* for the bottlecap, if we don't throw it for her, but instead lay it on the table, she will 'sneak' up onto the table and steal it!). She's almost frantic about it at times. The other, Bam-Bam (neutered male DSH) will bring a raggedy, tailless fake mouse for us to toss. He's not as frantic as Moe, but I think she's secretly training him to be :D
A while back I wrote up an episode about Moe and her fetish with bottlecaps, this happened about a year ago (according to the date on the file on my HD, a year ago tomorrow!):
Moe has this passion for bottle caps - preferably the metal ones as they make more noise on the hard floors in the house (kitchen, "dat tiled room" and the hardwood floors in the bedroom). She loves for us to throw them, so she can "hunt" them, and bring us her "catch", and then waits for us to throw it again (and again, and again.....it's never ending).
Since we have 8 cats, and none of them want to sleep at the same time we do, we close the bedroom door at night. The other night I was waken by a "clink clink clink" against the bedroom door. I get up, open the door and find Moe, right there at the door, with a bottlecap. I pick up the bottlecap, put it on the nightstand after closing the door (with Moe still outside the bedroom). I need my sleep (so does DH - he has to bring home the shrimpies). About an hour later....."clink clink clink". The little Tater-head has found another bottlecap. By the time DH's alarm went off, I think there were about 5 bottlecaps on the nightstand.
And when DH gets up, he leave the bedroom door open. Moe comes in, hops on the bed. Immediately sees the bottlecaps on the nightstand. "Clink... clink... clink... clink... clink...". One by one the drops them on the floor (bedrooms have hardwood floors). Moe follows them to the floor. More clinking. Then Moe hops back up to the bed. She walks over to where I'm laying and, in her raspy-squeaky voice, meows at me pleadingly. I sit up. Moe has brought a bottlecap to me and dropped it on my chest. I throw it out of the bedroom and proceed to rub my eyes while she flies (literally - one leap and she was off the bed and landing in the living room - her feet never touched the bedroom floor) after the bottlecap. No sooner had I swung my legs over the side of the bed and my feet touched the floor, when I feel the jiggle of a cat jumping up on the bed. It's Moe. With a bottlecap. I throw it gain. She chases it again. I have to pee. By the time I make it to the bathroom, Moe has her "prey". I sit on the throne. Moe brings me the bottlecap, but this time dropping it just out of my reach on the hall floor. She must know that when Hoomins sit on the Big White Bowl, the air tends to start to not smell very good. She meows at me a couple times, urging me to hurry up and throw the bottlecap.
I finish my "duties" and flush. Pick up the bottlecap and give it a toss. Moe gives pursuit. I head to the 'puter to check newsgroups, email and local online news. At my feet, I hear a clink, and fur brushes past my legs. A few seconds later, I hear a Moe-meow. I ignore it, concentrating on the idiotbox. A couple minutes later, I hear another clink, followed by a Moe-meow. Again I ignore it. About a half-hour later, I get up from the computer, after Moe has gotten fed up with being ignored and wandered off, and I find 4 bottlecaps have been dropped by my feet, neatly in a row.
I decide to get even with Moe, and walk out to the living room, rattling all four bottlecaps in my hand as I do so. Just the clinking of them is enough to wake her from her nap, and she trots over to me. I throw one - she darts off after it. As soon as she 'catches' it, I throw another. Her head pops up at the sound of it hitting the floor. She leaves the first one and heads to the second one. I throw the third just before she gets to #2. Her head spins so fast, I think she might have whiplash (I'm giggling at this point). She heads to #3. I throw #4. This time she just stops walking, and looks at where all 4 of them have landed, one at a time. She is deciding which one of them is worthy of her 'attentions'. Then she hears me giggling at her predicament. The proverbial light bulb goes off over her head. She has figured me out. She stalks off to sulk.
Later, in the evening, I am watching TV (the original idiot box), and Moe hops up on the sofa - apparently the earlier incident is forgiven (or forgotten - you can never tell with cats). I am laying on my side, somewhat curled - Moe finds the hollow behind my knees and lays down. All is fine, until I feel her trying to dig under my thighs (which would take a bit of digging ), so I sit up to check it out - after all, a bug might have been crawling on me (ick). The stinker has brought a bottlecap up onto the sofa.
Another round of fetch ensues - at least until my arm gets tired.
When my arm does finally wear out, she takes the bottlecap and wanders off. A few minutes later, I see her playing with the turbo-scratcher. I happen to know the ball is missing (and it's Moe that made it go missing), so I go over to check. She has dropped the bottlecap in the track for the ball and is batting it around like she would the ball. She then retrieves the bottlecap from the track, only to drop it back into the track on the other side of the turbo-scratcher, and starts batting it around the track again.
Oh well, at least she's amusing herself now, and giving my arm a rest.
Val - 14 Jul 2006 18:28 GMT Oh, yeah!!!! I have six cats. It started with Shadow, my Russian Blue (May 1, 2000 - March 1, 2006, RIP Fur Angel). He loooooved bottle caps. We drink a lot of Pepsi, and you had to screw the cap back on after each sip, or Shadow would make off with your bottle cap. He would come and sit on top of the table next to the arm chair, purring and looking at you all sweetie-pie eyes, as if to say, "Oh, come on, you know you don't really need that bottle cap, you know you want to give it to me!" and if you didn't keep an eye on him, he'd get a little bit closer, a little bit closer, a little bit closer to that bottle cap, and then very quietly pick it up in his mouth and jump off that table so fast....you'd never even know it was gone until you heard the unmistakable sound of Shadow dropping that bottle cap on the linoleum, and then batting it around and around and around, clearly loving the sound it made on the linoleum. One day after he'd nabbed my bottle cap three times in a row while I was engrossed in watching the movie Stealth, I dubbed him the "Stealth Catter." As I was picking up the bottle cap to rinse it off and re-cap my bottle, when I noticed him staring at it in my hands intently, like a dog does when he wants you to throw something for him to fetch. So, I tossed it for him, and danged if he didn't go rushing after it, bring it back, and drop it at my feet! Well, we played this game off and on all afternoon, and thus began the longstanding tradition of The Fetching Stealth Catters in the Cameron family. All I have to do is uncork a Pepsi, and the hiss brings the Fetching Stealth Catters out in numbers! They all come rushing over with intent looks on their faces, staring two holes through that fabulous prized bottle cap in my hand. I wave it at them, and their heads bob back and forth to follow it, then I throw it and they all do a mad scramble to fetch it first! Shadow has since passed on, but not before he passed his talent along to Dandelion, my flame point Siamese, who is the most inexhaustible Fetching Stealth Catter of all.
> any one else have a cat that plays fetch? Jeremy - 18 Jul 2006 03:34 GMT hunter loves the beer bottle caps so much that we have to hide them, h also will come over to me when ever I open a beer, I opend one up th other day and put the cap on the counter and as soon as I walked awa he jumped up there and got and came walking right over to me like he throw this thing will ya? It cracks me up when he is chasing them an they go under a door! If I cant find my cat all I have to do to fin him is drop a bottle cap on the floor and he will come running as fas as he can from where ever he is in the house
-- Jeremy
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