If you watch squirrels in your yard, you know how playful they are. A broken twig will serve as a toy, if there’s no other squirrel to play with.
Here’s a pet squirrel pulling out all the stops to get the family cat to play tag with him. I don’t think the cat is up to it.
That’s almost mesmerizing to watch. That squirrel is having a lot of fun, running circles around that cat.