A few years ago, we lived next to some folks who had two cats who spent all their time outdoors. Every once in a while, we'd see one of them catch a little baby rat snake and then entertain himself swatting it around the driveway, tossing it up in the air, swatting, swatting, playing. Then he'd let the snake go.
It reminds me of Putin and Biden. You can guess who's the cat and who's the snake.