My cat is part retriever...

[Veronica]

Tucker Cat loves my hair bands. They are the ultimate toy. His new thing is to carry the band over by me, rub my leg and drop the band. I throw it. He chases after it and brings it back, rubs up against me, drops the band and I throw it again.

Cats sure are weird critters. :D

V.

[Eden]

My two cats do that too. Well, at least my female still does. My male started it, but he seems to have grown out of the habit of fetching toys, but my girl still loves the game. My male is rubber band obsessed.... I have to make sure he can't get at them or he'll chew them up. He can't chew through pony tail holders so I don't worry about them so much.

[Thorn]

Yep....wait until you wake up and find the hair bands in the bed. You'll know what the cats do when you're sleeping.

My hair has been short for years, yet I still keep a supply of hair bands (the good kind without any metal and "just the right size") for the cats. They lose them, they get sucked up by the vacuum, or maybe they just have a stash some place that I'll find when I move.

But, Veronica, I was waiting for the tie-in between your sock thread and your cat threads. I guess your cat isn't as strange as mine. My boy will carry socks around the house (wool are best), yowling. If I leave the drawer open, when I come home from work there is at least one sock waiting for me at the door.

[salsabike]

Yes! When our cat Nina was younger, she used to hunt down socks overnight and leave them triumphantly on the foot of the bed.

And I used to have a cat who was totally enchanted by rubber bands. She would hold one end down with her paw, and pull the other end back in her mouth, and then let it fly across the room.

They're all so loony, and all so different. I love them.

[csr1210]

Another cat retriever here! And I thought my cat was unique! As a kitten she would chase after wadded paper thrown in the trash, so we got her some bouncy balls. She brings them to us and shrieks at us until we throw them. She's always losing them under the couches and gets very excited when she sees us get the broom to sweep them out! The other cats aren't really interested in ball, but they do love the little plastic rings from milk jugs. It's not trash -- it's a cat toy:D

Christy

[Veronica]

But, Veronica, I was waiting for the tie-in between your sock thread and your cat threads. I guess your cat isn't as strange as mine. My boy will carry socks around the house (wool are best), yowling. If I leave the drawer open, when I come home from work there is at least one sock waiting for me at the door.


I try to keep them out of the drawers. :D Our first two were into socks. I'm sort of obsessive about wanting drawers and cabinets shut. :p So Cassie and Tucker really haven't had an opportunity to play with socks. They do love Thom's motorcycle pants. He leaves them folded on the floor by his boots during the week and they crawl inside. He ended up needing to take one of those hair removal tape roll things to work because he was always covered in cat fur.

I have pictures of my Bozo cat playing with rolled socks. My Tilda kitty use to get the dirty socks out of the hamper and drag them around. I miss those two. Tucker sleeps on my feet the way Bozo did, but otherwise they are all very different.

V.

[dachshund]

Yes! When our cat Nina was younger, she used to hunt down socks overnight and leave them triumphantly on the foot of the bed.

And I used to have a cat who was totally enchanted by rubber bands. She would hold one end down with her paw, and pull the other end back in her mouth, and then let it fly across the room.

They're all so loony, and all so different. I love them.

That's a riot!! Imagine a cat finding your missing sock pairs.

I used to have a cat who would round up all the rubber bands and place them in a neat pile in his dry cat food bowl. By 'neat', I mean perfectly lined up on top of each other.

But shooting the rubber bands, that's advanced! :p

[colby]

One of ours will play with anything, and hair ties are RIGHT up her alley. She's not much of a fetcher, but she loves the chase.

The same one is fond of rubber bands, plastic bands, milk rings, and that kind of thing. Today I caught her carrying around an Ironman poster I brought home, still rolled up with a rubber band around the middle, BY the rubber band. Her obsession is a little strong.

Another one of ours is the king of knocking things off the table. If anything is right at the edge of the table, he curls his little toes and pushes it off. You can put it back up, he'll knock it off, watch it fall, and look at you -- "hey, can you get that for me?" Lather, rinse, repeat. He's terrible. He's knocked off bottle caps, empty soda cans, tennis balls, marbles, toys... anything. I wonder what's going through his head as he knocks them off, watches them fall, and waits for YOU to fetch! ;)

[SlowButSteady]

Cats that retrieve are a hoot. I call them "fetch kitties."

If you have a cat with a strong retrieving drive, they'll go past when a labrador retriever will stop and take a nap.

Be very, very careful with the hair elastics and rubber bands. They are very common causes of foreign body obstructions in the GI tract of cats. One of my patients died after the surgical specialist removed bits of them in eleven places in her small intestine.

It's strange what cats like. My SIL's fetchy kitty prefers pieces of paper rolled up into balls. One of my cats liked Brill-O pads.

[mimitabby]

I've had more than one cat that retrieved. I've even had "party cats" When we had guests, Grizz used to love to play fetch. She was quite a show off.

[snapdragen]

Sock lovin' cats...

[SouthernBelle]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

Yech.

[CATWOMAN]

Tucker Cat loves my hair bands. They are the ultimate toy. His new thing is to carry the band over by me, rub my leg and drop the band. I throw it. He chases after it and brings it back, rubs up against me, drops the band and I throw it again.

Cats sure are weird critters. :D

V.

I have had 2 orange male cats. They are the best. Eddie, my current boy began fetching about a year ago. I buy small bouncy, really squishy balls from PetSmart. He runs after them and runs back to me with it in his mouth. When he is really energetic he will jump up and down with it if I bounce it. It is SO funny when he catches it in mid air. My girl, Sophie just watches him like he is the stupidest thing that lived:D. She would never be bothered with such entertainment.

I haven't thought about hair ties. Maybe I should try that; it would be cheaper than those bouncy balls. My first "fetcher" loved pipe cleaners. My poor children would bring home cute little projects from preschool and Rusty would tear them apart if there were pipecleaners anywhere on it. He was truely tormented by pipecleaners. Is there a smell to them or what??:confused:

[CATWOMAN]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

Yech.

Gross!! My Sophie loves dental floss. She will fish it out of the trash and eat it if we don't hide it. And yes, it comes out the other end. Now that is gross!!:eek:

[makbike]

Catwoman, it's a good thing it does come out the other end for the surgery to remove it is quite expensive!

[colby]

Grey Kitty loved Q-Tips. The more used the better. He would fish them out of the trash and run around the house with one end sticking out of his mouth.

I forgot about q-tips! I have one of those, too. It's cute and disturbing at the same time... anytime we use q-tips he's RIGHT THERE watching you. He chews on them, carries them around, and tosses them around with his little toes curled. It's really cute, I have to admit, but the taking them out of the garbage not so much. ;)