How I Trained My Cat To Fetch
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- 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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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
He chases the ball but expects me to go to it and throw it again 😂
😂 That's exactly what my girl does I'm the one that's fetching all the time. She goes after it then taps it like it's right here come and get it.
Same with my girl 😂
I feel you all 😅 my boy love to chase the balls, but never bring it back. I hope this lesson will help me to teach him fetching 😊
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.
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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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!
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
Just want to say: Very well done, cat!
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!
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.
Great video.
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!!
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 !..
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
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.
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!
This is really awesome! Thank you for all the tutorial videos, super inspiring!
I really enjoy your channel…Jones is so handsome; reminds me of my house panther! Wishing you both continued success in the new year. 😺
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.
Thank you.
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!
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 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
Wow! Thanks!!! (a former 'fetch requester')
Luna (my cat) will sometimes run after a toy and pick it up rarely.
3:20 kittie pump 🤜🤛
Hi, I hope you might have some advice for me. I’m at the point where my cat should be picking up the ball off the floor and dropping in the lid. She just isn’t getting it. She will pick up the ball from the lid (up to a low height), while the lid is on the floor, and drop it back in, but if she accidentally drops it on the floor instead then she doesn’t understand that it needs to be back in the lid. If I start off with the ball in front of the lid, she just drops it on the floor, and sometimes she employs her paw a little and the ball gets stuck in her claw. Anyways I’m trying to figure out when I should give up. I really don’t want to quit….. it’s been at least a month total of working with her on this - much more time than other clicker training tricks etc that she understood much more quickly.
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my cat too ;-; and i’m not paying $25 to learn how to help her ….
@@bosstrash8461 No kidding. if I manage to find way that works for my cat, I'll come back and post it here.
@@247SarahIt has been a year, did your cat manage to do it?
Hags (my kitty) will fetch on her own. But just socks. I don't know what it is about socks, but she loves them.
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 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
You have a great personality and pleasant calm demeanor for training cats 🐈!
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
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
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 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.
My cat fetches the toy and throws in the dustbin. Thanks for this. Helpful
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.
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?
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!
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?
How many days of training did it take for Jones to complete fetch?
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.
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
How long did it take for him to learn?
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?
My cat likes to chase balls and he sometimes brings it halfway back
Prusky will sometimes run after a toy but won't bring it back ,at best he will kill it on the spot
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
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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
My cat can play fetch, but only with his favourite ball... its very damaged now, i found the same toy in the shop, but he does not fetch with the new one :( i don't know what to do... how to make him like the exact same new one..
My male cat has been with me for 3+years now and all i can say is that his personality is somewhat of a dog. I'm with him everyday and he LOVES to play (but he doesn't understand his claws hurt and i just stop when he starts to claw) We like to play fetch sometimes with his favorite toy HAIR TIES xD some times almost 35% he will bring the hair tie around my area but not directly at me forcing me to get up every 30 seconds. Any more tips? I have tried this method but he doesn't really comprehend
I successfully have done this with my cat before, without training myself how to do 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 really wonder too!! I am experiencing exactly the same…
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...
My cat likes to track after i throw a bouncing ball. But he just lost interest when the ball stopped bouncing and walked away lol.
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.
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.
I’m sorry I am not sure what the answer was. will they always need treats?
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
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
My cat schooling me
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
Literally came here to say, how I taught my cat to fetch: I didn't. He taught me.
How do I train my cat if he doesn’t eat dry treats at all? It’s hard to reward him with liquid treats as I would have to let him have the whole sachets as otherwise he would just get so distracted by what’s remaining in the sachet…
I’m just too lazy to get the toys after throwing so I wanna teach my cat this lol
I’ve wanted to clicker train my cat for a while now but stopped because he just doesn’t seem to be interested in the actual treats I give him. He’ll eat one or two and then just lose interest so the clicker doesn’t really mean anything to him. I’ve tried using 4 different treats, do you have any suggestions on what to do or treats?
From another video on this channel: Dont free feed dry food to your cat if you are. Try the training at a time your cat’s hungry.
Check out our video on treats: ua-cam.com/video/daOFeFkyuMQ/v-deo.html
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
Mine always fetches but only brings it back when I’m busy/refusing to play! Otherwise she’d rather have ME go after her to pick it up and throw again.. 😅😹 which can be tiresome considering she’s only 2 months, full of energy and wants to play forever! - any advice? Thanks
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
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
My kitten must be super-smart then because I did not teach her how to play catch but she does
I have a Maine coon cat. He is a good hunter getting the ball but not bring it back. Just play with it or keep it on his mouth.
My cat has so many dog like qualities but he always goes for the toy and 60% of the time grabs it but obviously never brings it back. Just not sure how to use to treats and clicker effectively.
My cat did it all on her own wanting us to throw the ball and brings it back intell she is tired
How do you take it to the next level? Plus, RE what you said at the end of the video, does that mean cats canNOT in fact be taught to fetch (in play mode)?
You can take it to the next level by adding more steps; for example, Jones can do four steps, so now we can work on five and six. If you have a cat that likes to play, try teaching these skills with a new toy that becomes their 'training toy'. Once they learn/understand the concept of the target, you can try to transfer it to their play toy when they are in play mode; when they place their toy on the target, toss the toy again (their reward instead of using treats). If your cat loves when you throw a toy, as long as you can communicate to them that putting the toy on the target equals another toss, this should work.
@@CatSchool Thanks, my cat runs after little tennis balls when I throw em but I want her to start bringing them back to me. With other toys, she doesn’t run after them so much but little balls work. I will try these tips, thank you for uploading!
I didn’t teach mine….he just did it. Now he won’t stop…🙄
MY CAT FETCH SOMETIMES BUT WHEN ONLY CATHING A PREY OR SOMETHING
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 ex had her playing fetch regularly but since he and I have separated she and I have moved 8 times in 6 months
I'm afraid she has become too stimulated in other arenas and I want her to play with me again now that we are stable
Are male cats smarter than female cats because my cat, owen took 2 trys and the female mini had 5 trys
i dont even wanna play fetch that much but my cat wants to play like 2 hours a day
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
playing fetch with my cat right now no idea how we inadvertently taught her
my cat learned to play fetch by herself '
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
My cat just stops it or slaps it
How do I train my cat to pay attention ?
My cat naturally does this and drops it by my feet..come to find out Russian blue cats are known to do this.
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it feels bad to link food with demands
Bruh what my cat did it without training I stopped and now she doesn’t 😭
My cat doesnt understand what to do.
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.
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
when does he get to actually fetch like a dog, I'm disappointed.
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 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 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.
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)