I never had a dog eat an operc, but I did have a cat tip over a drawer containing 40 lots of Fissurellidae - over 250 shells. Sorting that out was tons of fun. On three separate occasions people have ordered a shell from me to replace a shell their cat knocked off the shelf. Two of those incidents involved the same lady (don't know if it was the same cat). Some time ago I read a little anecdote written by a diver. He took his dog to the beach with him while he went diving. It was not a very fruitful day, but shortly before it was time to leave, he found one beautiful live specimen of an uncommon cowrie - I'm not sure what species - Cypraea gaskoini comes to mind. Anyway, he opened the driver's side, put the cowrie in a small box on the center of the seat, then let the dog in. Then he ran around to the driver's side and jumped in, to find an empty box and a dog licking his chops. Does anyone else have any pet-shell interactions they would like to share? Paul M.