I was trying to decide what to replace my living room floor with and had many of the same questions you did (especially little feet and accidents when you werent' there to clean them right up) except all the little feet in my house arent' so little. my neo is just over 220lbs and they can do some scratching.my husband with his odd remodelling jobs has but down a ton of laminate flooring and told me not to worry about it it would even hold up to our zoo here. He went into a big long expanation that I will spare you but basically said when the flooring fits together it creates a seal that keeps moisture out and something or other about the way the color is in the laminate that you have to get huge gashes in it to even notice. that's what we're going to go with when I redo my floors.
hope that helped some.
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