A whole bunch of years ago I had a similar situation with a customer's cat when I was repairing their phone. The customer had MANY cats and they kept chewing the phone cord, and my boss had told me to tell the customer that this would be the last time we replaced it for free, that they would be paying us $13.00 per cord henceforth.
After the cat climbed my leg three or four times, the next time it climbed I kind of peeled it off my leg with my clipboard, just the way the officer did, finished the job and left.
By the time I got to my next job the customer had filed a formal complaint at the vice-presidential level, stating that I had been abusive to them and had kicked their cat. There was a formal investigation and I was "acquitted" and I thought that was the end of it, but the complaint stayed in my file for years, only to be removed when I was promoted to staff and was able to expunge it myself. It really didn't affect my career, but it was a nasty incident anyway.
Some unknown person turned those folks in for violations of the city ordinances against harboring too many cats. The resulting search and seizure netted 42 cats and kittens. The entire basement floor was inches deep in excrement and the house stank.
