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Wolves can play fetch: Cubs shock researchers by retrieving balls just like dogs - proving it's a natural instinct and NOT 15,000 years of training
2020-01-17
Posted by:Fred

#7  I had a cat that would retrieve bottlecaps I shot from a patented fraternity move.

"Bottlecap, Bill!" and he was on it
Posted by: Frank G   2020-01-17 21:52  

#6  My cats played fetch, too — they liked ponytail elastics and the rings from screw-top plastic gallon containers. They also loved to be tossed onto the bed — and would run back across the bed to be thrown again for as long as we’d play.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-01-17 21:50  

#5  My cat will play fetch.
If he feels like it.
Otherwise he acts as if you assaulted him with a thrown object.
Posted by: Marilyn Noodleman6219   2020-01-17 15:59  

#4  Oh thought it was about baseball season in the North side of Chicago... carry on.
Posted by: Lex   2020-01-17 08:59  

#3  All mensa zero and ones so9ooooooooo impressed!
Posted by: Vernal Platypus4991   2020-01-17 08:19  

#2  The first two wolf litters they worked with showed little to no interest in balls, let alone retrieving one.

It's not automatic across the species. So, not necessarily natural instinct.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-17 06:36  

#1  So, maybe cloistering and hugging and revealing feelings and 're-education' should be an anathema for real men.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-17 00:20  

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