Yarn Ball

Right-click throws one ball where you look. It lands as an ordinary dropped item, and you can pick it up again after 2 seconds.

Cats and ocelots within 14 blocks run to the ball and bat it away about once a second, until someone picks it up. A tamed cat that was told to sit ignores it. Kittens chase it too.

The recipe makes two balls and takes wool of any color.