Absurd is putting it strongly, perhaps overly so. Small children damage a lot of stuff, I've seen it myself! Kids pull or trip on charging cables, spill juice in the car, get their grubby/sticky hands on stuff.

Dogs track mud into and stink up cars. I once lived with a dog that liked to drink seawater when taken to the beach and would have diarrhea 15 minutes later like clockwork. The first time the owner took him home from the beach in his leased car, he was in for a big surprise.