My cat will play fetch for as long as I throw her little mouse toy. She’ll even let me throw it from bed and she’ll bring it right back up for me to throw again.

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    3 days ago

    One of mine does! His name is Porkchop and he will only fetch and return plastic water bottle caps.

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    Mine did as a kitten. He’d even bring the toy back to throw again!

    At some point he stopped bringing the toy back so now we don’t play fetch. We play throw once and stare.

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    I had a cat that played fetch. When he was young fellow, he’d fetch and bring the toy back to me. Eventually he’d only bring the toy most of the way back, and I had to cover the remaining distance. Then he’d bring the toy back some of the way back, and it eventually turned into him running to where the toy ended up, sitting down next to it, and looking at me like “Okay, I found where you tossed the toy, now come over and get it so we can do this again”. He still loved to play, but it seemed he kind of outgrew the fetch thing.

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    So cute! My Maine Coon played fetch too. He preferred the shiny little balls of tinsel, but would also play with toy mice. I never taught him, he just brought me a toy one day and stood on my chest so I threw it to get him off me (he was big) and he brought it back. After a few times doing this I realized I was playing fetch with him and we did it his whole life 😊

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    3 days ago

    I’ve seen other comments pointing their cats only doing it when kittens, but I am happy to report that my 3 and a half year old boy does still play it. I throw aluminium foil balls and he loves playing soccer with them and giving them back to me so I can throw them again

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    I have had a couple cats who do this! It’s adorable. It does mean I’ve woken up with cat toys in my bed, though.

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    Apparently ppl here hate reddit, but for those who don’t, r/catscarryingstuffies has kitties that play fetch fairly often. So, yes, it happens, but I don’t think it’s too common

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    My handsome boy has a toy fish he brings to me. Well, he brings it wherever he sleeps and sometimes that is on my legs. Sometimes he just brings it to me. He really likes that fish.

    He will play fetch with those plastic springs. Those disappeared for a while. I had to do some work behind my fridge yesterday and found over 15 of them hiding under there.

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      When we moved out of my house I found my missing air pod under the oven where my little lady had lost it. 😂

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    Not fetch but he does have a favorite plushie toy that he takes with him wherever he goes. So adorable.

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    My youngest cat did when she was little… but has basically stopped a couple years ago. I think it’s because she’s bigger and I can’t throw the crinkle balls far enough. lol I got a gun that shoots little felt balls, but she doesn’t like those balls (but my oldest cat loves to walk around with one of those balls in her mouth while singing us an opera).