To Say Nothing of the Cat

I'm 39 and my husband is 32. And children's games are the best kind -- in it for the fun!

Thanks for the feedback. We're not "padding the numbers" type people; the question originally came because, as Rubbertoe pointed out, the Profile page has a spot for "Travel Bugs Owned/ Found" -- so the question was, if we find it, should we note it? (Hence the thread Rubbertoe has started re: possibly changing the language from "found" to "moved.") I had also been doing a lot of reading in the forums, and had noticed that a hot topic for travel bugs is when they appear to go missing, and their owners (and other interested parties) don't know where they are. I like Rubbertoe's idea of simply noting that you found it in the cache log. Short and simple, without the possibility of messing up its travel chronology! On the other hand, we did find our first travel bug the other day! Newbie that I am, it was a bit of a thrill, and it would be fun to say "We found this one!" even if we knew that we couldn't help it out on its travels. Puzzlebug, I appreciated your posts along this vein. Markwell, I didn't know that you could post a note to the Travel Bug; I'll be checking that out. Do you think TB owners would appreciate a note saying, "We saw your bug in the Mystical cache," even though we didn't move it?

Thanks for the feedback. We're not "padding the numbers" type people; the question originally came because, as Rubbertoe pointed out, the Profile page has a spot for "Travel Bugs Owned/ Found" -- so the question was, if we find it, should we note it? (Hence the thread Rubbertoe has started re: possibly changing the language from "found" to "moved.") I had also been doing a lot of reading in the forums, and had noticed that a hot topic for travel bugs is when they appear to go missing, and their owners (and other interested parties) don't know where they are. I like Rubbertoe's idea of simply noting that you found it in the cache log. Short and simple, without the possibility of messing up its travel chronology! On the other hand, we did find our first travel bug the other day! Newbie that I am, it was a bit of a thrill, and it would be fun to say "We found this one!" even if we knew that we couldn't help it out on its travels. Puzzlebug, I appreciated your posts along this vein. Markwell, I didn't know that you could post a note to the Travel Bug; I'll be checking that out. Do you think TB owners would appreciate a note saying, "We saw your bug in the Mystical cache," even though we didn't move it?

We're new to this, so maybe this is one of those obvious things we just haven't figured out yet... When you find a travel bug in a cache, but you're not going to move it (can't further its goals, etc.), should you still log that you found it, but left it in the cache? Is this something that the TBs owner would appreciate? Or do you only log if you were involved in its movement?