Fetching Behavior

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On 06 Nov 2003 07:23:43 GMT, omcom
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote:

I think I've read about cats
bringing things like rolled up socks to their humans but I don't
recall anyone mentioning that their cat plays fetch like a dog. I
was curious as to whether anyone else had a cat that did this sort
of
thing.

When Waffles was a kitten she loved to do this with little scrunched
up paper balls. Neither Francis nor Marble have ever shown any
interest in the game.

Cheers, helen s

Several years before I was born, my parents lived in an upstairs
apartment that had its own stairway to the outside. They had a
tomcat that they couldn't let go outside because it got in fights
with the landlady's cat, so they would roll a rubber ball down the
hallway and down the stairs. Their cat would chase after the ball
and bring it back for them to throw it again.

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Welcome to rpca! Very nice stories about the kitties Avery and Kona --
you're so kind to take in the older kitty, too.
Looking forward to more stories about them. I'm owned and operated by
Midnight, Oreo, Omar, Robin & Tucker and have an outside kitty Pirate right
now, too, that I'm trying to find a home for.
Christine
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om...
We had Prissy for so long (almost 20 yrs) that when she passed away I
thought it would be forever before we would be thinking about another
cat into our lives. But we decided to take the plunge after only a
few months. We recently adopted Kona and Avery from the cats up for
adoption at our vet (they keep somewhere around 40-50 cats for
adoption there)

Avery is a an average/large (12 lb) medium/long haired black cat who
was a "door dump"-someone left him at the doorstep of the vet in a
carrier. He's about three years old and has his spells where he wants
to be picked up and cuddled and times when he wants to "do his own
thing". He's not particularly a lap cat (for now), although he wants
to be where the people are and sleep on the bed. Pretty playful. We
are thinking of another name for him since no one knows what his
former owners named him.

Kona's picture and also somewhat sad story can be viewed at
http://tinyurl.com/ttx1 for those interested. Kona was *miserable* at
the "orphanage"-having been in a home for 11 years and then dumped by
his former owners he just didn't like having to share things with a
horde of cats. He's a senior cat and of course we don't know how many
years he has left, but he's in good health now and we're happy to give
him all the lovin' he can handle for however many years he has left.
And he's BIG. The vet says he weighed a little over 16 lbs at the last
weigh-in but I think he's closer to 20. Bigbig paws and bigbig eyes.
Kona thinks the reason your lap exists is for him to be on it. You
have to decide when you sit down that you want to stay sitting for a
while because he's kind of a load to dislodge if you want to get up.
:-) He's seems a little jealous when we show affection for Avery-he
seems to want *all* the attention and kind of glares at us when we
give Avery some lovin'. But they seem to tolerate each other fine,
even if they are not instant best buddies.

Anyway, we are gradually discovering the various aspects of their
personalities. Kona likes to jump on the bathroom vanity (it's not
too big he has some trouble fitting his entire self on it:-)) and
first stick his paw under running water, then stick his entire face
under the faucet sideways and drink from the tap, getting his entire
face wet in the process. Never saw a cat that liked getting wet like
that. But the most curious thing so far is that he apparently was
taught or developed a talent for fetching. He was up on the vanity
one night when I took out some Q-tips to take off some makeup and his
eyes just lit up. I put one in front of him and he began to bat it.
On a hunch I tossed one out into the hall. He bounds off the vanity
(BIG thump), bats the Q-tip around a bit and then grabs it in his
mouth by one end, trots back, lays it at my feet and looks up at me. I
thought this was so neat I went out to the living room with him and
tossed one to the other end. Well, the living room has hardwood
floors and Kona has lots of inertia so when he accellerates he skids
like a cartoon cat. He zooms to where the Q-tip lands, sliding and
slipping as he decellerates. He proceeds to flip the Q-tip up in the
air several times, pounce on it when it lands and bat it around.
After he's sure that he's killed it, he picks it up with his mouth,
trots back to me with it dangling from his mouth by one end and drops
it at my feet. Repeat process five or six times. He *loves* doing
this. I find it so charming and quirky. I think I've read about cats
bringing things like rolled up socks to their humans but I don't
recall anyone mentioning that their cat plays fetch like a dog. I was
curious as to whether anyone else had a cat that did this sort of
thing.