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I remember wondering why in the hell was I getting so many thank yous for rescuing Speck. Seriously, who would leave such a tiny, helpless creation to drown or be run over?
Every day that passes reminds me that he is not the fortunate one, I am. We all love our pets. Speck is no more special than any other pet, I want to be clear on that. However, this guy.... he got me in the feels!!!
It knows how to play "fetch!" That's actually an uncommon behavior in cats - at least from my experience. Cats are good at chasing stuff you've thrown, but it never occurs to most of them to bring back to the thrower the thing they just threw. I've tried teaching both my own cat as well as a roommate's cat that, to no avail.
That said, my sister and brother-in-law's cat knows how to do it.
You are the lucky one. Playing fetch with a cat is special.
One of my cats, Allie, did it in her special way. Only with certain texture of crumpled paper balls. Only on the stairs. I would throw them down the stairs and Allie would bring it up. She figured out she could do it herself. Put the paper ball at the top of the stairs and push it down, run down stairs bring back up and do over again. After we got another cat, Princess (3 year old came with that name) that ended though. Princess interfered in the special process and she didn't want to do it anymore. Princess was a budinski and we couldn't do anything without her poking her nose in, but she was my special stinker anyway.
After the Princess passed she did fetch a few times but lost interesting.
It knows how to play "fetch!" That's actually an uncommon behavior in cats - at least from my experience. Cats are good at chasing stuff you've thrown, but it never occurs to most of them to bring back to the thrower the thing they just threw. I've tried teaching both my own cat as well as a roommate's cat that, to no avail.
That said, my sister and brother-in-law's cat knows how to do it.
You are the lucky one. Playing fetch with a cat is special.
One of my cats, Allie, did it in her special way. Only with certain texture of crumpled paper balls. Only on the stairs. I would throw them down the stairs and Allie would bring it up. She figured out she could do it herself. Put the paper ball at the top of the stairs and push it down, run down stairs bring back up and do over again. After we got another cat, Princess (3 year old came with that name) that ended though. Princess interfered in the special process and she didn't want to do it anymore. Princess was a budinski and we couldn't do anything without her poking her nose in, but she was my special stinker anyway.
After the Princess passed she did fetch a few times but lost interesting.
Does Speck initiate the game?
I had one other cat (Jasper) that loved to fetch and he did it naturally. He loved for me to hide treats in drawers in various rooms. You would tell him what room it was in he'd open drawers until he found them.
I have found that cats are more engaged with humans if they are no other cats in the household, or in our case, where the other cat just doesn't care.
In the case of the fox, he initiated it. He was playing with it and set it down next to me. It's really not something I trained him to do... he just loves one on one interaction with me. I guess that's the benefit of finding him at 4 weeks old and spending so much time with him.
OMG, we love your kitten, too! He doesn't stop with his cuteness and smart purrsonality! Speck clearly adores you.
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I cannot believe how fast he has grown. What a gorgeous boy he is.
