Another one!

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

My cat does

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.

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 😊

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.

All the cats I had did at some point when they were young. It never lasted though, some only played fetch once.

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.

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

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.

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

Four of my seven will bring me a ball to play fetch.

Mine loves paying fetch, but she doesn’t really fetch, she just runs after it and gives it some slaps, than looks at me and meows until I get it and throw it again

Note: if you cat loves to play catch that is awesome but also many cats if anything love the opposite of catch even more.

A strong predator drive in cats is to want to pick up and drag off a new kill. You can bring this into play by letting your cat drag off their cat toy when they get it.

Don’t play tug of war with your cat, they aren’t like dogs they don’t generally get into that. They want to pounce, kill and triumphantly drag their prey off up a tree or into a hideout or something. Integrate that last beat into your play with your cat and they will have a lot more fun!

Even better, reward your cat with praise when they stalk off with the cat toy they just pounced on, give them a quick scratch or back rub as they walk away with a proud lion gate and then success flop. This will make it WAYYY easier to rescue… or cleanup an actual animal your cat has gotten because they won’t connect you with being near them after a successful “kill” as frustrating, stressful or unnatural.

If you do it enough with an indoor cat they will begin to associate a successful hunt with you hanging around, and that makes handling cats when they go into hunt mode way easier.

TL;DR praise your cat for hiding the body they will love you more for it and let you cleanup murder scenes easier because of it.

Only 2 of them did it their whole lives… Ginger now considers it servitude, but would literally fetch milk rings or mice until both my girlfriend and I got worn out… two and a half hours IIRC. She was so fast, like 30-40 mice a minute.