Has your pet(s) ever caused damage to your collection?

[SNIPE]

I have a Bunny who bit off most of the Longsword from my Hun Warrior.

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Now he's a really angry warriour.

[ShaydDeGrai]

Other than a few chewed up finials, spars, light sabers and other cat magnets, my cats have rarely done permanent damage to the parts themselves. MOCs and Kits, however, have had their fair share of feline inflicted injuries. Sadly, I've learned that if I really care about a MOC, I need to keep it under lock and key or boxed up.

As for kits, my latest victim was the UCS Batman Tumbler which was about 90% complete and sitting on my dining room table (where I was working on it) when my youngest cat bolted into the room, leapt up onto the table, slide across the polished surface and knocked the tumbler off the far end of the table where it shattered across the hardwood floor. The individual pieces seem okay (the cat was startled and flew off the table in the other direction) but I'm pretty much going to have to start over on the build. It was yet another case of CAT:1, CLUTCH POWER:0.

Other than chewing, most of the model destruction is accidental (or at worse, cats conducting experiments with gravity and models just being "handy" inertial masses) The one exception is the annual tradition of the winter village around the Christmas Tree. I set up my trains and various other powered animations and my youngest cat takes it upon herself to play Godzilla to my unsuspecting winter villagers. She'll derail the trains, rip up the lamp posts and trees, tear roofs from houses, etc. I think she enjoyed the carousel set more than I did. It's annoying, but at the same time, she's just being a cat and only does this when I'm watching (clearly there's no fun in it for her if she doesn't have an audience) so I don't worry about her swallowing small parts.

On the flip side, I have been known to accidentally drop small parts while building and often, if she's nearby, she'll bat them back to me so I don't have to reach as far to pick them up (comes from years of training her to play "fetch the catnip mouse")

[A Gallifreyan Cat]

My friend had a rabbit who caused absolute mayhem for his LEGO. The rabbit would eat all paper items and would actually throw pieces around the room.