Cats, dogs, frogs, and pixel birds standing in for every system pointer.
Animal cursor packs are unreasonably charming. The pointer is a paw, the hand is a tail-curled silhouette, the busy state is a sleepy curled-up nap. Family-friendly, low-stakes, and surprisingly readable on dark backgrounds.
If you would rather make your own pack in this theme, the beginner pixel-cursor tutorial covers the five-pass design process. The Aseprite walkthrough shows the same process inside the standard pixel-art editor. Read the readability rules before you commit to a palette — most thematic packs fail readability, not aesthetics.