Lessons learned...

If you have a (fairly expensive) digital camera, and you make a practice of downloading images direct from camera to pc...

AND

if you are the live-in servants to a 6Kg cat...

THEN

it would be a very good idea to invest in a remote SD card reader so that the cat will not knock your (fairly expensive) camera off the desk during the 15 minutes it takes to download the images and thus damaging the (in this case very small) data outlet plug that is part of the camera motherboard.