I have a bunch of drones including a couple toy drones that I like to use in the house to tease our cat. The cat actually likes them better than a laser pointer. But he is a very large cat and is quite a jumper. He has knocked them out of the air on numerous occasions. The ones I use for this have guards around the props, so he doesn’t get hurt and he feels quite proud of himself.
Since you can never actually catch a laser pointer, there is really nothing in it for the cat, but to bring down a drone, now that’s an accomplishment!
One day a Mockingbird was harassing my cat in the backyard, it made several swoops down on him until the last one in which the cat reached up and brought the bird down hard and killed it. Mock this!