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by trodat14 913 days ago
A dog playing fetch is playing with you; a cat is playing with the toy and you’re just the one throwing it.
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This is true. You can tease dogs with it before throwing, and they'll be all over you. A cat will watch you acting silly, waiting for you to finally throw it (unless they get bored of you first).

At least that's my experience.

Incidentally, the laser pointer is the only thing that almost all of my pets have universally chased. Cats. Dogs. Even fish chase it at the bottom of the tank! Just be careful to not get it in their eyes.

Interestingly our various birds have never seemed to care much about it at all.