What Equipment Has Your Pet Messed Up?

[Cyberdragon]

My very elderly cat likes to sit on strange things and in strange places.

Today she sat on my silver Paco S-55 (which was under a table with other stuff) and puked profusely on the front right corner, running all down the side and front of the panel all in the knobs and binding posts and then onto the carpet. It was a bitch to get out from where it was without making more of a mess on the carpet. I managed to get it out onto a towel and scrub it with paper towls, WD-40, and a toothbrush. But it's gonna stink of the combination of spray and puke for a while so it's still sitting out to dry.

What has your pet messed on, chewed on, knocked down, exc?

[tooki]

My home theater speakers still have minor damage to the speaker grilles from our kitten 15 years ago using them as a scratching post. 😂

Some day I should get around to putting new speaker cloth on, I suppose.

[mathsquid]

I used to do a bit of amateur astronomy. I had a cheap telescope, trained on Jupiter or Saturn, and the planet kept going out of view (and not just because of the rotation of the earth). I was trying to figure out what my problem was when I look down and see my cat rubbing his face against one of the tripod legs.

Cats make everything more fun!

[Photoman]

Years ago our rabbit ate an entire 12" sub woofer cone!  He ate the paper part and the rubber part as well.
This was in a speaker cabinet my father and I made from scratch.

Also a rabbit sized hole in a leather couch, the foam stuffing and some of the wood.
We kinda expected yellow foam rabbit sized poop but nothing.  To this day I still wonder where it all went.

A PBX telephone line, the kind that has enough voltage and current to throw you.  He didn’t seem to mind it at all.
Same when he at a lamp cord that was still plugged in.

How the heck do they survive that?

Then a DMM test lead.  I should have thanked him for that one.
I didn’t know at the time it was a crappy lead until I saw how little copper was in it.
He did nip the DMM as well but it wasn’t to his liking.  Just stomped on it and hopped away.

[vk6zgo]

My previous cat very much liked the silicon rubber lead on my Weller WTCP iron.
She bit it in half, the cut from her sharp little teeth looking like it had been done with sidecutters!

When I was a kid, we were "off grid".
Our domestic radio was a large tube portable with two big flattish knobs on the top.
Our cat loved sleeping on top of it, & often, whilst moving around getting comfortable, would turn the volume up or down, or detune the thing, so we got used to weird sounds from the radio when she was around.