Do cats 'fetch'?

[emx384]

My new kitten (hence all the kitten questions I keep asking on here!!) loves to fetch me a piece of rolled up paper so I can throw it for her. She then brings it back to me and waits for it to be thrown again! This can go on for an hour!!

Does this show an intelligent streak or just a kitten thing???

[missmooncat]

I used to have a cat that would fetch I`d scrunch up paper into a ball throw it she`d fetch it and drop it near me so I could do it again.
She would only do it with scrunched up paper though !!
Believe it or not she would like being swung round in a carrier bag too !! (only gently) I knew she liked it because when I put the bag down she`d jump straight back in and look at me as if to say go on do it again !!

[emx384]

My kitten has a passion for carrier bags too - I havent tried the swinging thing mind! I am steadily running out of stuff to keep her occupied - she is a step ahead of me all the time!!!

[wolf63]

I had to try this out. I took the toy that my tom, Frankie, was trying to kill and threw it across the room. He stared in me in pure disdain and cried. After a few minutes I had to go and 'fetch' th toy and hand it to my master who then got back to trying to kill it. His sister just lay on the back of the sofa watching but not moving.

Enjoy your kitten - they are fun and frustrating and very lovable.

[pussnboots]

When my cat was a kitten he liked to fetch crinkley toffee papers. If he heard me open a toffee he would come running waiting for me to throw the paper.

[sashacarly]

my kitten loves that game too, with her toy mice or paper she's not too fussy as long as you throw it for her!!

[honeyboo]

hiya one of our cats plays fetch she has done this since she was a kitten, we was playing fetch with her last night and she turned 7 a couple of weeks ago, she loves it. So i would say no its not just a kitten thing. Enjoy your new kitten and many years of fetch xXx

[annavc]

Sam likes to sit on the bed next to me and I'll throw a screwed up piece of paper straight up in the air - he jumps up, catches it in mid air between his paws then sits backs down and pushes it towards me to do again.

Mad beasts!

[iheartruby]

hi emx, my cat who lived to the ripe old age of 20 ( sadly we lost her a few years ago) retrieved those little orange plastic arrowns you get in toy guns. We found this out by accident when my grandad bought me them as a kid. She did it from young right to old age and she really, really loved it - when we said 'where's y'arrow?' she'd go mad with excitement, looking for it under the sofa so that we'd throw it for her. It was a real novelty for us and visitors to see this - try to associate it with a word or phrase and she may end up doing it for life like my cat! I like to think it's because she was clever :-)
Love to kitty
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