I often get asked, “How can I train my cat to fetch?” This video shows you all the steps I used to teach my cat to fetch. It wasn’t easy (not recommended for beginners!), but my cat, Jones, is always up for a challenging assignment.
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Hello. I tried both methods. In the first method, the cat loses interest after they remove the reward from the paper. and in the second method, he just licks the reward from the ball. What else could I try?
my 4 month old kitten started doing this without training. my mother loves playing with him he has very high energy
My cat seems to like play fetch with my hand rather than the toy 😅
How you get your cat to be so patient
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My cat already picks up balls and chases them and goes after balls I toss. But he doesn’t bring the balls back to me.
My kitten trained me to play fetch. I never trained her.
I play with my kitten everyday but maybe I wasn’t noticing she wanted playtime at that moment so I guess she thought she would train me to throw her toy while I am sat on the sofa 😂
My kitten Oreo started bringing me the toy mouse in his mouth automatically and dropping it by my side. I’d throw it and he repeats the process. He now drops it in my hand and taps me if I don’t throw it immediately. This has all been subconsciously I think as I have never trained him with anything it’s all been a natural progression.. I have never given treats…
My cat is absolutely going to be scared of the clicker noise, so I am trying to figure out a different sound to use.
How do I train my cat to pay attention ?
Just want to say: Very well done, cat!
My kitty runs after toys and she picks them up sometimes but to put them under my bed
My cat loves to play soccer with his tinsel balls, and if it's in a bad location he picks it up in his mouth and carries it to another location. But I came to this video because I feel like he would love figuring out how to play with me with it
what do i do if my cat is too focused on the treat? like if there’s no treat she won’t go for the paper, she needs to know there’s a treat present or she’s disinterested unless i through it or something (she’ll chase anything that’s thrown, which is why fetch is my top thing i want us to be able to do). how do u move forward from there?
I didn't have to train my cat to play fetch, he just does that. One day i threw the ball and he brought it back at my feet, i threw it and he brought it back again. Now it's an havit for him.
The first 2 methods don't work for me because my cats decide to lick the treats instead of trying to bite them. So they just end up licking the ball/paper
Bruh what my cat did it without training I stopped and now she doesn’t 😭
My cats have always played fetch. Get a piece of paper and tear a piece off in front of them, crumble into a ball( about the size of a pinball) it in front of them, put it on the floor and flick it. They will play all day long.
Personally, my absolute FAVE moment is when I see a cat I am 'training' stop, sit, think a moment, then give that "I'm done with this" look and walks away, usually followed by ME saying, "Okay, buddy… later!", followed by some sort of acknowledgment "Meow" back over the shoulder.
I truly feel sorry for people who just do not GET the intelligence of cats.
One of my Bengals fetches and brings it back on his own. No training. He loves tinfoil balls. It's his favorite game!
we have a pretty big garden and often throw with rocks or toys and she'll run after it, she won't pickit up though, only lay next to it and wait till i come to throw it again. Mostly when we're sleeping she often brings toys throughout the whole house, she likes walking around with stuff in her mouth. That's why i think learning her to play fetch is very possible, the only problem is that she isn't a big fan of snacks, she get's wet food in the morning and evening and some snacks throughout the day but would never eat that, we tried multiple snacks or other hard food but she simple isn't a fan of that. I tried to follow this video but she won't eat the snacks, just walking away from it. I just remembered that she is a fan of ham tho, so i could try to use that but i don't want to give her much ham. Is there anything else i can try when a cat isn't a fan of food… She is 8 months old btw.
my dog behave so un-dog (it doesn't fetch at all)
me throw the toy, it just lay down and look at me and wait for me to pick up
Are male cats smarter than female cats because my cat, owen took 2 trys and the female mini had 5 trys
My cat Luna(female tuxedo) loves to throw the ball down the stairs and retrieves it and repeats over and over, I believe it would be easy to teach her fetch as she already grasps the concept of fetch just need to include me in the game. Thought I would give your technique a shot, let you know if it works with the clicker/treat process.
My cat and I watched this video together a couple of days ago, and then he basically just started doing it on his own. No, I'm not kidding. We're still working on the hand-drop part though.
my cat will go after the toy if i throw it and he especially likes going after plastic eggs but he never really brings it back, he'll just walk off with the toy and play by himself. i've even seen him put his toys in boxes and plays with them so he doesn't have to run after them so he might not even want to go running back and forth playing fetch lol
Do you do this training all at once or just a little each day?
My cat will run after toys like crazy, but then he’ll just sit there with it and not know what to do with it
I didn’t teach mine….he just did it. Now he won’t stop…🙄
Great video, thank you, what treats do you feed Jones?
Great Video! Do you have an tip for my cat who is not food-motivated? He already likes to fetch but he stops an arm length away from me, so that I can not reward him for putting the toy in my hand or near me
My cat plays fetch with my hair ties every single day, I never taught her anything she just started picking them up and dropping them on my bed and looking at me so I would throw it then she would bring it back and I hit the road again and so on and so forth. She does it so often sometimes my arm gets tired lol. My cat is a tortoiseshell and her name is Chanel and she is my love bug