My cat wants to play fetch
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I got a Siamese kitten, named Taita, back in December to replace our previously beloved Siamese cat, Mai-mai, which tragically met with a car on the lane behind our house.
I bought Tatia from the same breeder as Mai-mai, and she has the same father because i wanted another cat as similar to Mai-mai as possible.
For the last couple of evenings i've returned home from work she has run up to me with her ball in her mouth, waiting for me to sit down in the living room, when she drops the ball and looks at me until i pick it up and throw it.
She then runs after it, picks it up, runs back to me, drops the ball and look at me until i throw it again.
I've has cats all my life, but i've never seen a cat play fetch with a ball like a dog before!!
Here she is pretending to be cute
I bought Tatia from the same breeder as Mai-mai, and she has the same father because i wanted another cat as similar to Mai-mai as possible.
For the last couple of evenings i've returned home from work she has run up to me with her ball in her mouth, waiting for me to sit down in the living room, when she drops the ball and looks at me until i pick it up and throw it.
She then runs after it, picks it up, runs back to me, drops the ball and look at me until i throw it again.
I've has cats all my life, but i've never seen a cat play fetch with a ball like a dog before!!
Here she is pretending to be cute
Our burmese plays fetch. No training involved - one day he just dropped a toy mouse at my feet and sat waiting. I threw mouse...cat chased and broight it back...repeat. This lasts for maybe 5 minutes until he's had enough. And unless he actually wants to play fetch, any thrown objects are just ignored; he has to initiate the game.
tvrolet said:
Our burmese plays fetch. No training involved - one day he just dropped a toy mouse at my feet and sat waiting. I threw mouse...cat chased and broight it back...repeat. This lasts for maybe 5 minutes until he's had enough. And unless he actually wants to play fetch, any thrown objects are just ignored; he has to initiate the game.
Typical bloody cat 
There is no such thing as a cat owner!
One of our rescues wouldn't play with us at all for about 8 years. And for about 4 years we were not permitted to see her play (presumably because we would stop trying to please her) - she would attack the mouse (a squeaky one so we know she was using it, plus we would hear her bouncing around the floor) BUT if we tried to sneak a peek at her playing, she had stopped and if we didn't go away, she would walk away from the mouse as well..........
Cats are funny, and have slaves, not owners.
Cats are funny, and have slaves, not owners.
crinkly sweet wrappers sends one of ours absolutly mad, and she'll play fetch with them. Over and over again.
The other one doesn't care about them at all - but fold a crips packet up into a traingle and he'll have your arm off for it. He won't play fetch with it, he takes it into a corner and sits and growls and hisses at you and tries to pull your arm off if you go close.
God knows why, its the only thing he's massivly interested in. We have to be very careful what we do with our crisp packets these days!
The other one doesn't care about them at all - but fold a crips packet up into a traingle and he'll have your arm off for it. He won't play fetch with it, he takes it into a corner and sits and growls and hisses at you and tries to pull your arm off if you go close.
God knows why, its the only thing he's massivly interested in. We have to be very careful what we do with our crisp packets these days!
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