Ok, so this past weekend one of my toy poddle puppies, 6 mo. old "Teddy" comes running to me so excited chewing on something.  It sounds like a rock in his mouth and I eventually get my hands in his mouth to retrieve it.  What the heck??? It's a 1.5" Megalodon!!!  Now before you think he's been trained to retrieve shark teeth for me, think again.  Teddy and our other toy poodle puppy like to chew - everything!  I swear they are worse than my two sons when they were the same age.  We thought we "puppy proofed" our home, but it seems like when we're not around, the bigger puppy Teddy knows how to sit in the arm of the recliner, reach over to the card table in the corner where I have some fossils, and pull something down to chew on.  The Meg he chewed on wasn't perfect, but it was pretty nice...was being the keyword.  He chewed an entire root lobe off!  Now it's a clunker and destined to go back to the beach for one of the kids. 

Tonight I come home from work and hear Teddy barking at buttercup (the other puppy), and hold off on the ribbing guys - ha ha!  We've come to recognize the type and sound of bark to be that he is barking at her becuase she has something that he wants, usually a chew toy or something.  I walk into the family room to investigate, and sure enough she's chewing a bone that he wants.  But wait a minute, the bone looks kinda large and not like anything we've bought from Petco before.  As I bend down to retrieve it I realize it's the really nice piece of fossil porpoise rib bone that I just found last Saturday.  I normally wouldn't pick this sort of thing up anymore from the beach because I have so many already, but this one was so well preserved it looked like a fresh break, and maybe I would find more on a return trip later.  Well forget that because the puppy ground down one end and added her own "predation" bite marks! 

Thank God these two fossils that became dog chew toys weren't perfect large Megs or some other prized fossil.  I moved the recliner far enough away from the table that unless he can leap vertically at least 3ft, he's not going to be hunting fossils anymore.  Just to be safe, I moved any good fossils off the table and boxed them up. 

Has this happened to anyone else?

Daryl.

That is funny but a bummer at the same time!  The puppy has a knack for bone collection, perhaps you should take it with you!

Not exactly the same thing, but my cat was pawing and chasing something around the wooden floors having a good ol' time.  I couldn't tell what it was at first but on closer inspection if was a piece of turtle shell that I found.  The fossil sustained no additional damage, but it did collect a dust bunny.