We have a pipe cleaner loving cat too. She does play with them for hours, carrying them around and playing with them as if they were mice. Lately she is chewing up and destroying my child’s small stuffed animals. Like a dog does,
When my meezer was little we put stuffed animals in her bed hoping to make up for the loss of her littermates. One of them was a siamese beanie babie that looked just like her.
When my daughter put it back on her shelf, the kitten would sometimes sit on the shelf next to the toy.