The Champion destoyed about a dozen remote controls from 6 mos. to a year old...He would shred them into a billion of small pieces... Always happened on Sunday nights, I suspect it was from the scent of my hand or that my friends & I were watching too much NFL on Sunday Ticket @ the house... About the only damage he ever did... I have always been careful about leaving my cell phone out because of this and have never had a mishap but was more careless about the remote controls... I spent alot of time on Ebay replacing them... As I am writing this, I am thinking I have not had any remote control damage in over seven months & now leave any remotes out in the open without a problem... If the remote control damage reappears next month with the start of football season I actually will be pretty impressed...