Cat vs. Pipe Cleaners

I believe at this point you are well acquainted with Fiona. She has lots of toys, accumulated over the course of several christmases--most are birds or mice. But she has gotten crafty and found a new toy in our craft room (get it now: crafty--craft room? eh?). She has found pipe cleaners. She believes these to be some strange alien creatures and I know this because she routinely attacks them. Every once in a while she pulls one of the craft room and pounces on it. She then jumps back, stares at it (flicking her tail viciously) and proceeds to pounce again. Usually when she bats at it the fuzzy wire skids a little and this supports her theory of "it's alive, I'm only defending the territory". So she "chases" it around the house, eventually growing bored and leaving it in the hallway. It then mysteriously disappears, which I suspect has something to do with the dog, Mae. So in the course of this epic battle I suppose Fiona wins because an inanimate object really can't win, can it?