Dear Conch-Lers, Most of these things including kitty litter are in the
book "Clean your shells".  I have to mention that leaving your shells in
alcohol will harden them and they will be very hard to remove later on.
The most important thing is to remove all of the animal from the shell
unless the animal is wanted for study later on.  Otherwise bynes disease
may destroy your shell in the future.

Bob

> rosesea wrote:
>
> The use of cat litter to surround the shells or the shells in plastic
> containers will keep shells from smelling....even if very hot weather.
>
> Wolfman figured that out on a trip to a scallop dump near Cape
> Canaveral Florida.  When he went into the store to buy a bunch of
> kitty litter (thousands of shells to transport home to Texas), the
> cashier thought he had bunches of cats!
>
> He put the shells in plastic bags, put them in buckets, and poured
> that cat litter over it all.  No smell until the plastic bags were
> opened three days later!!!!  YUCK
>
> Really, try it...it's great....really works!
>
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> RoseSea
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