Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tabby kitten playing fetch with a metallic blue and gold foil ball. Can cats play fetch? It’s one of the most popular games to ...

Cats can play fetch without training and are usually the ones to initiate it with their owners, a new study has found. The game fetch is usually associated with dogs—where an object, often a stick or ...

Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their owners. Credit: Mikel M. Delgado/CC-BY 4.0 Conventional wisdom would suggest that all dogs love to play fetch, while ...

The next time you hear "go fetch," don't assume it's for a dog. Cats like to engage in the playful behavior more than people might think. A new study from researchers at Purdue University and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throw it for me! Purple Collar Pet Photography/Moment, via Getty Images Many people have seen dogs fetch, but cats like to get ...

Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their owners, researchers report. Although more common in dogs, 4 in 10 pet cats also choose to play fetch with their ...

A round of fetch brings to mind long summer days in the park with a tennis ball-obsessed dog, but this fun game isn’t canine-exclusive. While cats are better known for their stalking abilities, some ...

Cats have a well-deserved reputation for being independent-minded and aloof, preferring to interact with humans on their own quirky terms. So you’d never see a cat playing fetch like a dog, right?

If you think of a game of fetch, you might picture a dog running back and forth, eagerly retrieving a ball. But a new, first-of-its-kind study in the journal Scientific Reports shows that they're not ...

Source: Tony Harrison, via Flickr. A few years ago, Elizabeth Renner posted a cute video of her cat on Twitter. Renner, a psychologist at Northumbria University, had captured her cat expectantly ...

In news that probably won’t surprise cat owners, cats that play fetch do it on their own terms. Fetching felines tend to dictate when a fetching session begins and when it ends, a survey of over 900 ...