One person I knew had a cat and about 4 different scratch poles. All were ignored and couch was used as one. And yes, one pole had the same fabric as the couch.
Not sure where you are, but everywhere I’ve lived (2 over a thousand miles apart), Christmas music and started after Thanksgiving and ended on Christmas. Movies sometimes started earlier. Rarely lasted later than Chrisrmas.
Never happened when I was in school. But of the four rescue dogs I have, I can easily see it happening with two of them. Paper shredder, and paper eater.
It is if you leave them around in various places to be found.