Cats Play Fetch, Too–But Only on Their Own Terms
December 14, 20234min readRetrieving isn’t just for dogs, but the emerging science of cat play can’t fully explain the feline phenomenonBy Lauren Leffer Growing up, James Serpell had a cat named Mungo with a penchant for pencils. “If a pencil or pen was on the floor, the cat would bring them to us,” he says. Then Mungo would sit and wait, hoping for a toss. “If you picked up the pencil and threw it across the room, he would run and bring it back. He would go on like that for quite a long time,” says Serpell, a professor!-->…