Having worked in animal rescue now for 20+ years, yea, nothing is guaranteed (well, safely). My computer room cat made it so every single cable I had in the room had to have a protective sheath or put away when not in use (many headphones later...). One of our current cats will chew on white cables, no other colors interest her.
Favorite recovery was pulling a harddrive out of a laptop because the rest was destroyed by a pitbull using it as a chew toy. Also found out the company had even more frightening IT flaws. (I was tasked with it, because the IT guy was a total creep with women. When I was transferring the data to the new laptop, I noticed they had never cleared the previous user's data. Previous user being the CFO...)