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 …
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I throw hair ties up in the air and my cat loves to jump and catch them. He usually leaves them on he floor or shoves them under the door for safekeeping. I would love to train him to bring them back to me so I dont always have to fetch them myself!
My kitten will bring the toy to me “sometimes” I didn’t teach her that she kinda does it on her own
Complicated? Some cats do it inherently, mine does.
he uses the toilet though. no litter mess in this house, he has his own guest bathroom.LOL
my norwegien forest carries his ball in his mouth all day .his ball is with him at all times. He should be easy to teach fetch unless he decides only he can touch it. im going to see. will update
when does he get to actually fetch like a dog, I'm disappointed.
My Maine coon did it right away as a kitten. It's pretty cool. She still does it now.
I’ve had one Siamese who saw me throwing the toy away as the reward. Didn’t put it in my hand but put it near me so I could reach it and throw it again.
My cat wasn’t introduced to fetch and one day he started dropping his toy and meowing so I just decided to throw his toy and since then it’s been an everyday thing. He will bring back that toy until he’s panting like a dog, then at that point he goes to tug of war. I always give treats or a meal after each play session. He’s almost fully trained. He listens to being told no, doesn’t climb counters/tables even when I’m not present, comes when he is called, he knows sit, stay, paw, lay down, roll over and I’m working on training him to play dead. I also have him leash trained. Probably the smartest cat I’ve ever been around
Beautiful ❤😊
My cat legit fetches naturally, he just one day was playing with a ball and brought it to me and dropped it, looking at me waiting for me to throw it again lol. I might have a dog in a cat's body idk, but he's a Siamese if that explains. He's like…super smart !
Bruh… wtf is this. I'm trying to yeet the ball into the statusfear and have the cat retrieve it. Not throwing something 1 inch away lol.
My late Patsy learnt it by himself, I throw him the ball away and surprisingly he returned it to me, honestly it was naturally happening without training…. I miss him so much !..
Hello , my kitten is likes the spring n he picks it up from his mouth I have established that once he picks up with his mouth he gets a treat but he doesn’t understand that he needs to give it back to me. How to go past that ?
He's the coolest goodest cutest boy 💋❤
Great video.
My cat is previously an outdoor cat that lived in a tent with homeless people and he has a lot of problems expending energy inside. Toys do not fight for their life in a convincing manner so we're clicker training. I had never thought about teaching a cat to fetch, I thought they either liked it or not but I think this might be a good idea. He likes to play with me or the dog or another living being. I imagine he will be putting a toy on my face at 5am to wake me by years end.
I successfully have done this with my cat before, without training myself how to do it 🙂
Just saying I defo recommend you the cat training school clicker and pointer , bought it on Amazon and it is amazing one of my cats mastered the high five ( highly recommended)
My Beo taught me this trick. He brings straw/twisted paper/plastic piece to me, wait for me to throw it away so he can grab it back. Midnight is his favorite play time and he love to wake me up to play with him until he’s tired.
No one teach him anything, he just do the trick himself.
My cat doesnt understand what to do.
My cat won’t sit still and pay attention she just attacks the treats till she gets one and then attacks the toy if I throw it or place it in front of her of if I hold the toy she attacks my hand
My cat will only bring back the balled up plastic shopping back. How do I get him to bring back the hair ties he loves?
Our 8 week old kitten brought me one of her toys, and I tossed it across the room. She played bunny kicking it and brought it back near me after about 30 seconds.
After a few days of (pretty clueless) training, I can now throw it down the hallway and she will run and get it. Has trouble tracking it sometimes, but, I’m amazed she just started doing this!
I don’t know if this is weird of my cat but my cat doesn’t pick up any of his toys with his mouth… like if his toys fall at the end of the stairs he will leave them there. Is that normal?
At first i couldn't do that bh nkw thanks to your content i can do it.Thank you very
I’m sorry I am not sure what the answer was. will they always need treats?
Both of my cats pick up toys. One, Onyx, barely does and has weak fetch potential. The other one, Roran, has high fetch potential and is constantly picking toys up, dropping them in certain places like at his "bed" and has even been bringing it to me rarely. He's only 4 months old. I clicker trained them a month ago very easily, but I haven't started teaching them tricks till now. I started teaching fetch earlier today, I kinda started teaching it by throwing the ball in which Roran always runs after it, at first he would just play with it, pick it up and then drop it in the same spot and walk away. I'd click when he has it in his mouth and at first he would drop it immediately then run to me for the treat. But I'd get up before he got to me, I'd pick it up, have him touch it, then I'd walk back with it, he would follow me, I'd have him touch it again then I'd click and give him a treat. Now after a few 5 minute sessions, he's bringing it back to me half the time, when I click after he picks it up and even sometimes without clicking.
As for Onyx, I will probably have to start at the beginning like you did woth yours since he has less motivation for picking up. Very smart cats, just like yours is extremely smart.
Play music you just won't bring back she's a female anyways and will only do a paper I want to know if you can help me teach her to do it with other not just paper