LOL, one of my kitties always attacks any grass-like plant, so my indoor bamboo is not safe. The other likes to munch on anything even remotely leafy...which includes artificial plants!
My wedding gift of a flower arrangement of birds of paradise still has teeth marks in them
Your lotus should survive. My DH once took a machete to my lotus to "practice his swing" ....they never outgrow "star wars"....and the plant still is alive