Kitty nicknamed "Mac killer"
.. who has accounted for two retirements of Macbook Pro units:
No 1 - one of the ones with the dodgy butterfly-switch keyboards. Not improved by the whole glass of orange juice that she knocked over onto the keyboard.. (unit still works, but the keyboard is somewhat random. At £700 for a replacement keyboard [replacing the keyboard means replacing the whole of the top section including the battery] it's not worth it. Replaced by a shiny new M2 MBP
No. 2 - Having learnt from no.1, I made sure that no liquids are near the shiny new MBP. I neglected to ensure that they were not on the same *table*. Had a glass of white wine at one end of the table and my new MBP at the other. Came back into the room and said cat was sat at the wine end of the table with a knocked over glass next to her. At the other end, sitting in a puddle of wine, was a very dead MBP (apparently, wine likes the cooling slots on the side/underside of the case and actively wicks in..). Home insurance paid for a replacement (recondidtioned, from Apple, M3 Pro, cost the same but was more powerful, had more RAM, same 1TB HD)
Said current Mac now sits on a stand to put it up above wine-level. On a small table with no room for putting liquid-containing glasses. She [1] often goes to sit on it (regardless of whether the lid is up) so I'm expecting a cat pee-related MBP death next.
[1] Small black cat, rescued from a friends shed at ~ 3 months old. She's 7 now and I'm pretty certain that she's just an over developed tortie because she acts more like one than our original tortie.. She's sitting on my lap as I type this and, if I don't give her attention to the level she expects, I get a small bite on the arm..