I once had a stack of old vinyl albums of Prince, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, etc. that I kept on a low bookshelf next to my record player. (This was only 6 years ago, but they were my old albums and some of my mother's albums.)
One day I picked up the Purple Rain LP to play it and I noticed that album jacket had some rips on it. Then I noticed the one underneath it did too.
Upon closer inspection, I realized that my cat had been using my vintage record collection as a scratching post!
Was I angry? Was I devastated? You bet I was. But I didn't do anything except curse and yell, because CATS DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH.
So I did the only thing I could do, I got over it and switched to MP3's.