How I Trained My Cat To Fetch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2022
- 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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I lucked out. My Norman started fetching and bringing the ball back right away without training. He puts it in my hand most of the time. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and the ball is in my hand.
He chases the ball but expects me to go to it and throw it again 😂
My cat loves to play fetch, but he doesn't bring it to my hand, he rather just places it in front of me. I am sure he will love this trick, thank you so much!!
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Same
my cat is colorblind or smth she always just runs over it and loses it
My cat does same thing loves to fetch but drops ball right in front of me every time
I can tell my cat wants to play, but with the clicker as soon as I bring treats he completely loses focus
I am going to do that with my husband! Each time he put his dirty clothes in the laundry basket I will click and give him a treat!
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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.
Cats are definitely underestimated but as for me… I didn’t understand this video
Penny is a pro at half-fetch. I throw the toy, she chases it, picks it up (sometimes giving it the death shake), then drops it in front of herself and looks up with pride and a tail twitch.
My cat is already very playful and she always picks up the ball in her when I throw it to her but never brings it back! Thanks sooo much for this video, it helped a lot to get her to learn the trick 😍Keep up the good work! 😉
Its not only yours almost all cats do this ,they like to catch moving objects
SAME LOL
Mine does as well. Picks it ups and drops it
My 10 week old Siberian loves to sit by me and wait for me to throw his pompom ball and will wait for it to land and he rushes over and picks it up, but doesn’t bring it back. So glad I found this video!
This is *just* the video I’ve been wishing for! My cat does tricks for treats twice a day without fail. She likes to run after a thrown mouse or other small toy, but is not sure what to do with it when she gets there. Fetching would seem to be good to prolong play, but I didn’t know how to train her for it. I only knew it was complex. Thanks for these steps to getting us started!
My cat used to play fetch all the time without much training at all. Now he won't bring them back to me. This is a great video to refresh his skills. Thank you!
My cat looks just like Jones, we named him Toothless (from how to train your dragon)
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!
This is really awesome! Thank you for all the tutorial videos, super inspiring!
Just want to say: Very well done, cat!
You have a great personality and pleasant calm demeanor for training cats 🐈!
My 6 month old kitten plays fetch with me she did it on her own. I told our dogs to pay attention they might learn something. Our Stormy is smart.
I really enjoy your channel…Jones is so handsome; reminds me of my house panther! Wishing you both continued success in the new year. 😺
thank you, your videos have helped me teach my cat so many tricks, i coincidentally have the same balls and my cat won't play with it (yet), this is gonna be his next training!
Thanks! I'm gonna give it a try. I appreciate seeing how you have taken Jones so far with an activity that isn't a natural for him. Figuring out the step-by-step strategy is the challenge at this stage of my beginner cat training days. We train several times a day, and he loves it. I'm pretty sure it's all about the food, but he purrs his way through. Sometimes he'll tell me that he thinks it's time for a training session by just starting to do tricks on his own. So cute! Thanks again!
Thanks for the kind note! I'm so happy to hear that your cat loves training 😻
By the way, my boy does fetch now. Kind of. It's not a natural thing for him to do. But he'll bring something I ask him to from about 18 inches away and put it in my hand. Usually. Took him a few weeks. Maybe a month. But he gets it now. It won't be like playing fetch. It's just a trick for him. I have since learned that cats don't see well up close, so that may be why he usually touches my hand with his paw too when he puts the toy in it. Training some simple things take a day, or one session. Other things take a month. But it's all fun! For both of us!
This is the one I just haven't been sure how to teach Ajani. He loves his clicker training (or at least the treats he gets for doing his clicker training) and I had no clue how to break this down for him. He picks up on things I come up with so quickly sometimes. . .getting him master a specific target spot is the hardest thing.
My cat will carry toys around in her mouth and she will run after a toy if I throw it. So I have ordered a clicker to see if I can build on the skills she already has built in. Thanks for the video!
Thank you so much for these videos! I have taught a LOT of dogs a LOT of tricks but I'm working on my first cat trick titles through Do More With Your Dogs and a few times I haven't been sure the easiest way to train some behaviors for my cat and your videos have helped tremendously! I really appreciate you putting these together. Oh - to answer the question, Mowgli is not at all playful, except like your cat, pawing and shoe strings and the like.
oo thank you! can’t wait to try this with my cat!! she’s a weird one and only fetches effortlessly when i’m brushing my teeth. she would bring her toy to me on her own terms
while i’m brushing my teeth and wait for me to throw it. once i do, she’ll run after it and drops back right in front of me. when i’ve tried to do this other times of day/when i’m not brushing my teeth, she will just chase after the toy but doesn’t bring it back. lol so i’ll have to give this a go and report back
What a smart cat!
At first i couldn't do that bh nkw thanks to your content i can do it.Thank you very
Thank you.
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)
That's excellent to hear. Congrats on your training success so far!
@@CatSchool thanks!!
Great video.
My cat, Paul, must be a natural. He taught me to play fetch with him.
No reward systems for either of us needed.
My kitten is the same. He just started doing it one day when I was sitting in bed.
My cat Hunter (see my profile pic) can already fetch sort of, but only with a few toys, one is a mouse and one is a string. But he does not always fetch and also lays it on the floor besides me, not in my hand. so i will definitely try this!
Also i love your videos, so keep up the good work! i think you 2 are awesome and it also shows how awesome black cats are!
Great video, thank you, what treats do you feed Jones?
Hags (my kitty) will fetch on her own. But just socks. I don't know what it is about socks, but she loves them.
Amazing explanation. I subscribed to your course I think 1 or 2 years ago and I remember I made a huge step with my cat. Good to see that you are adding even more videos
My flame point siamese just does it - for the fun - was never trained.
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, Red Boy loves to play “go fetch”. Only took me an hour to train without food treats. I only talked to him saying “go fetch” and I’d toss the mousey toy and or other stuffed toys. Once he brings it brought it to me, I would say thank you and praise him with a little back rub! Now he would meow non-stop with toy in his mouth until he finds me. He would drop it by my feet still meowing. His way of asking me to play go-fetch with him.
Hi catteacher :) ! With Prusky we are now back on the training of that skill we are like at the 2:41 on the video . He pick up the toy only if i present it to him not in my hand and i quicly put my hand under his mouth to receive it . we are going to try to transistion to he has to pick it up in my open hand
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.
Haha. My cat loves to watch videos with other cats and everytime you threw the toy my cat would adorably tap at the toy on my phone. My cat brings toys to us but when we are sleeping or on the computer. We play with him but the doesn't bring it back. He chases and then sits down waiting for us to get it lol. Maybe he has us reverse trained. Would love to get him to bring it back. He is such an energetic cat.
My cat just started doing this randomly all on his own. Usually around bedtime. His favorite toys are rubber bands. He would bring them on the bed and wait and we just started throwing it and he’d bring it back
My cat was obsessed with q tips the ear cleaners. Its hers favourite toy and then when i would throw it she would catch it and slowly bring it back to me
My Abyssinian cat brings me a stick with a thread tied to it, but only when I throw it in one direction. When I throw it from kitchen to the living room he brings it back, but not the opposite. He used to bring it from any place, but now he has a strong connection and he doesn't bring other toys. My really has fun doing this, he begs me to play fetch but doesn't do it the right way. I need to teach him to bring the toy where I am.
My 7 month old boy naturally learned to fetch his Koala plushie. We never showed him or rewarded him and he will nuzzle or meow if we don't throw the toy.
I will try this method. Teaching my girl to sit, stand and give paw was intuitive and easy - to fetch i didnt even get close to success haha
My cat loves his wand toys- the bigger and more ribbons or sparkly stuff, the better! He especially loves his unicorn and sometimes carries it in his mouth and bring it to me while he meows (telling me he wants to play). He also will "fetch" the unicorn at the end of the wand if I put it at the top of his cat tree, but he brings it to the floor and drops it under my desk. I'm really hopeful I can somehow train him on the whole fetch process!
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 got bored after a while we were just about to start picking up the paper from the floor maybe later but she’s doing so well as this is her first trick
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.
3:20 kittie pump 🤜🤛
Wow, how quick he picked that up, pardon the pun haha. My cat has no interest in toys, she is all about attention. We are currently learning buttons and she just loves to train and interact. I know that you will probably think that this is wrong, but with button training she started making repeated mistakes so I had to start saying "no". Interestingly, whilst I said "no, that's wrong try again" she would purr her loudest. Perhaps it was because I always found something to reward her for within half a minute if she made a mistake so she always knew that treats were coming. I also think it is very important to close sessions. I have always ended periods of being given treats with "No more" and I show her both of my palms so she can see that they are empty, is this something you do too? Anyway, thank you for the video, I must try this at some point now I know how to do it.
Wow! Thanks!!! (a former 'fetch requester')
my 4 month old kitten started doing this without training. my mother loves playing with him he has very high energy
Thanks so much for these lessons! We've already taught our cat to stand, but we're finding we're having a hard time with teaching her to fetch. She's very playful, and rather than biting the toy she's swatting at it. She's getting pretty frustrated with the learning process. Do you have any pointers?
He's the coolest goodest cutest boy 💋❤
Mine has learned fetch on his own, basically he trained me to keep throwing the toy, the fun chase is the reward for him.
I'm getting a cat soon and I am wondering how long you spend on each session of training? What is a healthy amount of treats to give before you stop for the day?
Cute
Luna (my cat) will sometimes run after a toy and pick it up rarely.
My cat fetches the toy and throws in the dustbin. Thanks for this. Helpful
Not sure how I accidentally trained my cat to fetch, but she loved it.
She used to put one of her toys in my lap then paw at me until I threw it.
She would run after it and bring it back to me, rinse and repeat.
What kind of treat ball is that orange one? It looks like it can be squishy with just a little pressure.
One of my Bengals fetches and brings it back on his own. No training. He loves tinfoil balls. It's his favorite game!
I tried to train my kitten to do sit, stay, and so on. I give up , she's too playful , even a treat won't do its works.
However shes a natural fetch player, whenever she's bored, she will bring her ball/ fish doll to me for me to throw& she will give it back to me (either to my hand or on my lap) and insist to throw em again .
Hopefuly she will be easier to learn some tricks in the future. 😂
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 😂
I need to add two extra steps 🙈 first, they are so excited, that they often use their paws instead of their mouth. Second, one of my cats likes to run away with the toy once he picks it up 😅 still a bit of training ahead of us...
One reason your cat plays fetch is it *COULD* be a bombay cat. Please let me know what breed it is.
Or you're just a very good teacher
My cat picks up sticks and flips them in his hands like a samurai its crazy as hell i got it on film thinking about posting it on here
My cat would run around the corner and wait for me so she can smack me 😂
I've found that my new kitten has slyly brought me her toys either when I'm asleep or not looking. She just turned 10 weeks and will run after toys I throw, and half the time if she can pick them up, she'll bring them about a foot away from me before dropping it and focusing on something else
in fact my cat started doing it on her own without anyone teaching her - because she loved to hunt the spiked ball which was jumping around wild... so she started bringing me the toy so I can throw it again
I'm glad my cat does it naturally because it is cute and I didn't have to try
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.
my girl plays fetch with these weird noodle things, i randomly brought it for myself but then i noticed she liked playing with it so i started throwing it she’d chase and bring it back to me on the bed 😭 but sometimes she leaves the noodle and doesn’t bring it back and ik she still wants to play bc she started crying for me to get it, i’ve been trying to teach her to bring it back by pointing to it and instead she goes by it to sit and wait for me to take it, once i get her to get the bring back park down pack i’m gonna teach her other tricks.
my cat just does that
my old cat used to love fetch (also just did that)
I never managed to make a dog fetch but it just happened with cats
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My cat _looooooves_ to chase a toy when I throw it, and he knows to comes back to me so that he gets the distance to run after the toy when I throw it again. He just doesn't pick up the toy with his mouth to bring it back to me, so I have to get up and get it myself. 🤣
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.
Hey ! Im a newbie trainer so please helo me by answering some qsns!
1)what's the clicker?how to click it? Is it available on amazon?
2)what's the breed of your cat?
3)what food you provide him ?i domt want my cat to get fat!
My cat ( Mr Tibbs ) can pick up a toy and bring it back when you throw it for him but how do you make them drop it in you're hand? p.s. great videos: me and tibbs watch a new one every night and thanks to you , my fluff ball is now trained. :)
it shows your question in the video
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
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.
Prusky will sometimes run after a toy but won't bring it back ,at best he will kill it on the spot
Hi! How many days did Jones go from not interested in toys at all my cat) to dropping the toy into your hand??
My kitty is great at picking up ball toys. She sort of brings it back to me, but I know she needs the extra training step to really get to true fetch. Can I skip the picking up the ball step?
How many days of training did it take for Jones to complete fetch?
I successfully have done this with my cat before, without training myself how to do it 🙂
When we got my kitten she used to play fetch with these plastic springs. I never trained her but I'd throw them down the hall and she'd trot back with it in her mouth and drop it in front of me to go again. She seems to have grown out of this behaviour so I'm keen to give this a try. Ever since she's been going outside she's had little interest in play or toys and has become an avid mouser so perhaps training could be a good form of enrichment for her.
My cat will pick up her toy and drop it immediately I have her trained to do that. I was trying to teach “pick it up” but she doesn’t hold it in her mouth long enough. My biggest question is how do I introduce the “cue” or “command” with clicker training? Do I say the command with the click? Before they do the command or after? Also how do I introduce hand signals ?
This is the tutorial I was hoping for. My cat chases paper balls and carries them around but does not bring them to me. When she sometimes comes close to me with the paper ball and I try to grab it from her mouth, she quickly runs away with it. She thinks the game is to not let me take it away from her. I will try the paper roll with treat inside. Thanks
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
Check out our video on training rewards: th-cam.com/video/D0Nh9YUCp50/w-d-xo.html
@@CatSchool thank you 😊
Literally came here to say, how I taught my cat to fetch: I didn't. He taught me.
I have a teaser (mouse on string on stick) my black tabby picks it up with his mouth and runs to where he wants to play with it but he doesn’t fetch. My white cat was a rescue and I love her to death but she’s a little slow, she’s a runt so she doesn’t like to play as much as she does laying on peoples faces. Should I play with them separately to get her up to speed?
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…
is he a ragdoll? Mine does the same and its in his nature as a ragdoll
At what age should I start training my cat? Is two months two early?
How long did it take for him to learn?
I'm going to try this with my cat 😃 she likes to chase a ball if I throw it, but she doesn't bring it back. Just wondering, what kind of treats do you use? My cat is small and I have to be strict with her food or she gets overweight easily... I don't feed her more than 3-4 treats each day. But I guess this would work with hard food?
Yes, you can train with your cat's dry food.
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 ?
I'm still at pick up a toy but we don't train everyday i have to be more constant
it is not that easy but as cat-teacher saids " Fetch is on of the hardest trick " so
So my cat is highly play/toy motivated but not so much treat motivated. The only treat she'll eat without a second thought is those churus but then she won't pay attention to anything else. How would you go about training a cat that isn't treat motivated?
Is there any other way I can reward my cat other than with food? My vet adamantly wants me to only give my cat wet food (he has some health issues), and he's also a little overweight, so it's not ideal for me to give him little snacks. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I have a black cat too. Is it just my impression, or do all black cats purr like a freight train? Anyway, I have a bit of a challenge: cat training in a multi-cat household, where the cats in question are less than a year old. Any suggestions? Black cat frequently steals the treats from the smaller tabby kitten...and then she gets discouraged. I try to prevent it, but it distracts from train8ng... Anyway, enjoying your videos. They are brilliant. I taught my previous kitty to tolerate nail clipping through sort of similar steps, but trying to teach these two goofballs anything makes me think I simply lucked out with previous cat...
So I have been trying a few of these. Is there an age that is too young to start? My kitten is about 11 weeks old and only been in our home about 2 weeks. Is this too early to start learning any tricks? As a kitten his attention span is all over the place and to be honest he doesn't seem to know the difference between treats and his normal kibble food lol. He doesn't seem to care if I dont give him the treat