Go fetch!

[tahnan]

Zooty, the slightly more insane of our insane cats, has coerced us into giving her treats for fetching. Specifically, because she's so fond of bringing her feathered toys into whichever room we're in—including the ones attached to sticks, which she'll blithely drag along the floor behind her—we'll give her a treat when she does.

Tonight, as I was saying goodnight to my wife (she goes to bed hours before me, i.e. around 1am), Zooty came trotting in, only this time instead of the usual light "dink" of the plastic end of the feathered toy hitting the floor, there was an odd metallic clatter. Puzzled, I looked down, and discovered Zooty sitting and waiting patiently for a treat for fetching the one-inch-by-four-inch rectangle of chain mail my wife had assembled earlier tonight.

On the one hand, we really need to make sure these things are out of her reach. On the other, if we encourage it sufficiently, we could rent her out to Pennsic attendees to retrieve arrows and lost armor.

Comments

[dana325.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Murphy loves to fetch. His favorite fetch toy is a straw. I know the sound of a straw being dragged across hard wood and dropped with my eyes closed. He loves to have them thrown down the stairs. I'll go about my business and he'll bring them back a few minutes latter and sit with an expectant look.

A nice cheap cat toy but it gets awkward if we ever bring a starbucks iced coffee into the house.

He might be a good candidate for cat clicker training. I did it a bit with murph and he LOVED it. I should go back to it at some point.

[jydog1.livejournal.com]

it sounds like you have the perfect kind of cat - the one that thinks it's a dog.

[sensational.livejournal.com]

Hee. Wonderful.

[mildmannered.livejournal.com]

D'AWWWWW

[jadelennox]

I wonder if they had retriever cats in medieval Europe?

[kid-cthulhu.livejournal.com]

Can you get my retriever to do that?