However, this poor dude did not get the memo.

One very expensive lesson

A Malaysian man recently took to his social media pages to share a picture of his personal belonging that was half chewed up by his pet cat.

Afif Adlan Mohd Hanafiah felt his heart breaking into a million pieces when he noticed that his cat had destroyed a piece of paper in his room.

That piece of paper turns out to be his university degree.

my cat fucking ate my degree!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/dIhabGALUH

— guy *whose cat ate his degree (@mamblonumber5) December 21, 2020

Afif, who graduated with a finance, accounting, and management degree from the University of Nottingham in July, tweeted that he couldn't believe that of all the useless papers he has in his room, his cat decided to go for the most expensive one.

"Of all the useless papers in my room, he ate my f*****g degree. It’s like he f*****g knew,” he ranted.

of all the useless papers in my room he ate my fucking degree wtf!!! it’s like he fucking knew

— guy *whose cat ate his degree (@mamblonumber5) December 21, 2020

Afif then shared a picture of the perpetrator: the meow named Mika, who, by the looks of it, doesn't seem to show any signs of guilt at all.

his name is mika and no, he isn’t an oyen https://t.co/GYPuBuFJsY

— guy *whose cat ate his degree (@mamblonumber5) December 21, 2020

Afif's rant has since gone viral on the social media site, having re-tweeted more than 72,000 times and garnering more than 467,000 likes.

Netizens, for the most part, symphatised with Afif's pain:

Maybe sbb kucing tu ada bau kejayaan dan dia dengki

— wannnn (@syvzwvnz) December 21, 2020

The cat after eat your degree : pic.twitter.com/f8xnXaJzNh

— Baby Driver (@NazirulAkmal99) December 21, 2020

kena buat report dekat pejabat kucing ni pic.twitter.com/d8fqDHkzBo

— ????? (@irfannsofi) December 21, 2020

Cat lepas makan: "what's he yelling for" pic.twitter.com/cm0U3E0Ewv

— ?? ?????? (@ansryss) December 21, 2020

Your cat now pic.twitter.com/aVVteIHAz0

— Josh Gomes (@JoshDGomes) December 21, 2020

that cat is gonna do great things in life with that degree pic.twitter.com/yBFlgywEiW

— ????? ?????? ? (@swarms14) December 22, 2020

Interestingly, there were those who also shared stories of their beloved pets going cray cray on their personal belongings:

My dog ate mine the week before I had to leave to go to another country and submit it as proof to complete my registration for a graduate program pic.twitter.com/PAbi4QYsvj

— Vic (@VicsLit) December 21, 2020

Same energy pic.twitter.com/j4Q6qBLcRZ

— siapa y (@botol_sirupABC) December 21, 2020

?? pic.twitter.com/w1FJXqFKH1

— Rafles77 (@Stratigakos1) December 21, 2020

Yesterday, my cat threw up all over the Christmas presents I had just wrapped for my daughter. Only hers. Like, the ones with the fanciest paper, ribbon & hand crafted labels. She watched me wrap. She watched me place them under the tree. Then she moved. Cats are utter bellends.

— Dr Kerry Ellis Devitt (@CJResearch2018) December 21, 2020

Thankfully for Afif, his university has decided to help him out:

Didn't realise our degrees were so tasty. I'm purrfectly sure we can sort something out (re. the certificate, not the behaviour of your cat ?). The Uni is closed until 4 Jan, I'll speak to our Graduation team when we're back. ^Anne

— Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN (@UniofNottingham) December 22, 2020

So, let this be a lesson for you guys who have cats at home: hide your university degrees!