Your Cache Hounds

February 5, 2006

The "girls" by our third cache "Sea-Spot"

February 5, 2006

OK, so maybe not truly Cache "hounds" (Puppykat???) but I love em anyway

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Edited February 5, 2006 by MT CatRancher

February 6, 2006

I geocache with my German Shepherd Dog ... Rusty

And I have a Travel Bug: Klaus TB, which was launched in memory of Klaus (another German Shepherd Dog), who recently passed away. The TB's goal is to log as many miles as possible. For every mile it travels each year, I donate $1 to the German Shepherd Rescue of Los Angeles. Right now the TB is in New Jersey.

Here are both Klaus and Rusty together.

:huh:

February 6, 2006

This is my dog, Logan, who loves nothing more than a good long hike. He's not so excited about watching me stay in the same area for 30 minutes looking for an elusive cache.

February 6, 2006

I've had Buck since he was 5 weeks old, he's now 11. Loves to go caching and prefers squirrel hunting over grouse hunting. He can spot a squirrel long before I do.

Anyway, here is the best shot I've got of him, just a quick shot with a new camera when he was

about 6 or 7;

Once he's swam out, or cached out, I tend to spoil him a tad;

Here is a pic after finding our first travel bug ... he was snoring, then

I made a kiss noise to make him look up;

He's a good boy, well tempered, has a diploma. I used to play hide n seek with him as a young pup,

today, he will not get out of my sight ... which is a great thing. When I have him off leash, and I think

he's too far ahead, all I have to do is hide in a bush for a second and he'll come find me :lol:

He's been hit by a Jeep and knocked out, attacked by 2 different dogs and came out ok ... I call him

Lucky Bucky

February 6, 2006

OK, so maybe not truly Cache "hounds" (Puppykat???) but I love em anyway

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Beautiful kitties! :lol:

I love cats too, so I show you mine:

Cleo, Murray, Melvyn, Darius

3k · February 6, 2006

Finally have a decent pic of our new cache hound Ruger. He's still a pup, but learning fast how to find a cache! - F&tH

February 8, 2006

Bella and Angie on the top of White-Stone in Bükk-mountain, Hungary.

February 8, 2006

This is our cache-dog Zoiee. She is a tenacious little girl but loves to help us “find” caches.

Zoiee at our cache "This Old Road"

February 9, 2006

I'm a new cache hunter, but my lurcher Ali has visited every cache I've found with me. He loves coming out for a walk somewhere different than the usual, but gets bored while I ferret around at the location. He usually lies down nearby and starts grumbling ti himself. He is slowly learning that if I pull a container out of the undergrowth it means a Bonio will come out of my bag for him. These aren't caching images, but you get the idea!

I'm getting ready to hide my first cache, which I'm going to theme around this old poacher, with dog related bits and pieces as swag.

February 20, 2006

I had to bump Faith up to brag on her. She has officially earned the title Geocaching Wondermutt! Check out her cache find!

Here's Faith, the Geocaching wondermutt. OK, so she's small enough to fit inside a regular ammo can, but she loves to cache! Anytime she sees me pick up my cache bag, she goes nuts. Of course, we both get an earfull when she comes back covered in burrs!

February 20, 2006

Rocco, the lab/cinderblock mix that decided it would be a wise idea to pick a fight with a herd of wild pigs:

This caused a super hasty bushwack exit from the area resulting in this:

:lol:

BTW... I had to carrry HIM out, as the thorns were too thick for him to get through. he picked the fight and then got carried by Mr. Lighteye through 500 odd feet of 8' tall briars to safety, while not recieving a single scratch himself.

Edited February 20, 2006 by Mr. & Mrs. Lighteye

February 20, 2006

Cooper (RIP) guarding the Chamber of Secrets

Edited February 20, 2006 by karstic

February 20, 2006

Here are a couple of pictures of my geocaching buddy, Honey...

Sitting pretty...

On the trail...

February 21, 2006

Geo-hounds -- aren't they wonderful? Here's mine: Daisy dreaming of another cache in LogBear's arms. She's an Australian Cattle Dog, sometimes called a Blue Heeler, although she's red. She's about 9 months in this photo. We haven't had her too long, but she seem to have taken well to caching.

February 22, 2006

This is Caper. She is a wire haired Jack Russel Terrorist who thinks the world is hers. Most of the time, it is. She LOVES going caching. Just having the GPS in your hand triggers her 4' vertical, and frantically trying to pull her leash from its hook so as to make sure we dont forget to take her. :cute: We love our dog. :cute:

Edited February 22, 2006 by TeamGuisinger

February 22, 2006

I know I posted a picture of Abby once already, but here's another one of our 15 week old team mascot. Geocaching is so much more fun with our cache hound!!! Not counting the one time she pooped in the truck, of course. :cute:

February 24, 2006

Here's some pics of my hiking buddy--her name is Casey.....(hope they come thru ok--new to this)

With pack, on the trail:

And, at the end of a tough hiking day:

More proof that my pooch is a tad spoiled:

:laughing:

FlatSix

Allentown, PA

March 8, 2006

This is Hector.

(not that he looks much like a geocaching hound in this picture!)

We're both brand new to geocaching and found our first two caches on Sunday! Both now hooked.

March 8, 2006

This is Toby Teeth. The best companion I ever had next to Maddawg my daughter. Oddly we didn't want him at first. A friend asked us to watch him as well as her doberman for a while until she got settled into her new home, and we obliged. He soon broke out of our backyard with Harley the doberman who happened to have a thing for cats. In the two hours they were free...I was at work.... Harley managed to kill five cats. A woman two blocks over tried to intervene with one and placed her hands into the carnage and recieved a few stitches. Off to the pound they went. Toby however was only guilty by association. Their owner decided that she had had it with the two of them and was going to have them put down. Harley was a sweet dog...just hated cats, but he was 12 years old, had bad hips, and cysts on the inner thighs of both back legs. It was probably about his time anyway. As for Toby, he was only a pup! How could she do it??? She asked if wanted him, but we didn't.... until we went down to check on him. He looked at me like all he wanted to do was come home. I let him. As punishment we paid $200.00 in fines, had to keep a sign posting that a "vicious" dog was on the premises, as well as a bright orange collar with the word "danger" all around it. HAHAHAHA....Hardly! Anyway, we sadly said, "goodbye" to Harley, and took Toby home. What an amzing companion he is. He never leaves my side, and I often find him pushing up through my legs begging for a scratch. On the trail he is excellent. No need for a leash unless I see another dog or hiker ahead or behind. More for their sense of safety than worrying about what Toby might do (death from begging). He never tries to run ahead unless I toss a ball , and then only if I give him the "go on." He sleeps at the foot of my daughter's bed nightly as she has an active imagination. She just likes his company. After she is sound asleep he sneaks out of the room to spend some timie with the miss and I until we go to bed when, without command, he heads back into Maddawg's room for the remainder of the night. What a guy! Thsi was only supposed to be the posting of a pic! Sheesh!

p.s. We have a beagle named Bailey too. She is wonderful in the house, but rarely goes caching because all she does is tug on the leash wanting to find the rabbit that left that scent. You'll be glad to know she has never missed a trip to the beach with us though!

March 8, 2006

I posted a while back with my two geocaching partners. I've since gotten another one.

This is my newest cache hound, Murphy. Murphy will be going on her first caching trip this weekend:

And this is all three, from left to right: Hako, Murphy, Bailey

Hako on the trail:

Hako after nuzzling in the snow for a cache:

Bailey bringing me a tool to help find a cache:

March 9, 2006

Are Hako and Murphy deerhounds or deerhound crosses? They are beautiful. Murphy has unusual and beautiful markings.

(Bailey is cool too, but I have a soft spot for the sight hounds :laughing: See my post above)

March 9, 2006

Are Hako and Murphy deerhounds or deerhound crosses? They are beautiful. Murphy has unusual and beautiful markings.

(Bailey is cool too, but I have a soft spot for the sight hounds See my post above)

Thanks... Murphy does have beautiful markings. Several people say she looks like a cat from a distance. She's going to be wearing a vest when we cache so she's not mistaken for anything.

Hako and Murphy are Irish Wolfhounds. Hako is 2 years old (next week) and started off a shiny silver with black stripes. You can still see some of the silver in his face, but he's mostly a nice gray now. Murphy is his half-sister (same mother), she's just under 6 months old. She's a red brindle, which I absolutely love. Unfortunately, our breeder says she'll lose most of that and eventually become a darker gray with black stripes. So we're taking a lot of pictures to remember her puppy coat by :laughing:

Bailey is my step-dog (my wifes dog from before we were married). She is a wonderful dog and the only one that is allowed to sleep on the bed (the others don't really fit) and is great at sniffing out caches (so long as they are hidden near something that smells pretty bad). I'm right there with you though, sight hounds are great and I've dreamt of getting an Irish Wolfhound all my life. Luckily after my wife got me Hako for my birthday a few years ago, she fell in love with them as well, and she's the one who pushed to get Murphy.

Ali is a beautiful dog as well. I've never heard of Lurcher before. I'm assuming it's a type of greyhound?

Edited March 9, 2006 by BRTango

March 9, 2006

March 9, 2006

Ah, Wolfhounds. The brindle of Murphy threw me (I've never seen a brindle Wolfhound before) and I thought I could see some in Hako, but looking again see it is really the light on his coat.

A Lurcher is a cross between a sighthound (greyhound, wolfhound, deerhound, whippet, etc) and just about any other dog, depending on the type of dog you want to produce for a particular job. Ali is a border collie / greyhound cross, often considered the 'classic' lurcher, bred for a greyhound's speed, and the collie's stamina and brain.

March 9, 2006

Ah, Wolfhounds. The brindle of Murphy threw me (I've never seen a brindle Wolfhound before) and I thought I could see some in Hako, but looking again see it is really the light on his coat.

A Lurcher is a cross between a sighthound (greyhound, wolfhound, deerhound, whippet, etc) and just about any other dog, depending on the type of dog you want to produce for a particular job. Ali is a border collie / greyhound cross, often considered the 'classic' lurcher, bred for a greyhound's speed, and the collie's stamina and brain.

Actually, Hako does have some brindling as well. He is a silver brindle. It was much clearer as a pup. You can hardly see his stripes anymore, but they still show up.

I'd never heard of a lurcher, but it sounds interesting. I wonder what kind of a lurcher you'd get by crossing a wolfhound and a basset hound :anicute:

April 2, 2006

I am just starting out, but I cache with my great dane Simon (he has his own account too--SimonTheWonderDane).

April 3, 2006

Here's one of our cache hounds. This is the one that gets to go out the most since he does so well.

Beagle Bailey

Here's Mrs. KandRS with the hounds.

September 30, 2006

Bump!

1.6k · September 30, 2006

I grew up with Irish Wolfhounds - my mother loves them, but at least in this region, temperaments have suffered in the past 20 years, so she will likely never own another.

Heres our puppers... We breed and show boxers, and she has become our official outdoor nut.

Shes our 3rd generation - Dad would love to come with, and he does go on the easier ones, but hes not as big on bushwhacking as she is!

This is Ella - she is on our signature cards!

We do professional photography - and this photo was taken late August.

September 30, 2006

I'd forgotten this thread was here, and it must have been one of the first I posted on when we took up caching. Ali the Lurcher (scroll up a few posts) died on the 11th, a good few years before his time. :laughing: We just got back from our first cache without him, and missed him dreadfully all round our walk. He'd have loved jumping the stiles and chasing the pheasants across the fields.

We still have some Ali the Lurcher 'collector cards' which we dropped in caches, and decided we would carry on doing so, until we run out. Let us know if you find one.

Look out for his travel bug 'Ali the Lurcher' http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=224659 currently in the Czech Republic.

Enjoy your hounds everyone!

Gareth and Sarah

20.7k · October 2, 2006

A few weeks ago, my dog of 14 years stopped eating her regular food. We swapped her to tastier stuff and she resumed eating. She stopped again and we took her to the vet. Her bloodwork was perfect and her breathing and heart sounded fine, so we brought her home and got her tastier wet food. After a day or two, she stopped eating that, too.

Back to the vet, we went. More bloodwork and a full body CT revealed nothing wrong. On a whim, our vet ordered a chest x-ray. He was shocked to find darkened lungs. We threw her on antibiotics to treat possible pneumonia (even though her breathing was fine) and ruled it out in a couple of days.

He did a needle biopsy to see what was in there and sent the slides for cytology. On my way to the vet from work on Friday, I got the call from my vet. Malignant. By the time I got to the vet's, she was laboring to breathe.

I had to put Darby the Wonder Pup down.

October 2, 2006

:anitongue: Sorry to hear about Ali and Darby. A geopup is hard to let go of. They become part of the family so quickly that we don't remember it happening until they are gone. I've had several dogs, and every one has been very special.

My current geopup is named Ellie. She's a Yellow Lab.

18 Months old now.

October 2, 2006

Sorry to hear about Ali and Darby. A geopup is hard to let go of. They become part of the family so quickly that we don't remember it happening until they are gone. I've had several dogs, and every one has been very special.

My current geopup is named Ellie. She's a Yellow Lab.

18 Months old now.

Thanks Bob. Ellie looks great! I see so many overweight and fat labradors around here I forget how they should look. She looks in great condition!

October 2, 2006

That's Raven... She's looking at you, but it's hard to see her eyes.

That's Caroline back when she was a pup.

They both LOVE caching, but we don't take them as often as we should. They're both humane society dogs and both chow mixes.

October 2, 2006

We adopted Otis from a local animal shelter a couple of months ago. I think he's going to enjoy caching. :anitongue:

October 4, 2006

This is our geohound, Geoffrey. He's not spoiled or anything - just look at his tags.

October 4, 2006

We found Henrietta at a park while searching for GCQFZ3. We've decided that she's a German Shepherd and Lab mix. She was approx. 6 months old, now she's a year old.

This is Henrietta in her new backyard the next day after we found her at the cache.

And here she is now, my wife and I use this pic as a background on our phones.

October 6, 2006

We found Henrietta at a park while searching for GCQFZ3. We've decided that she's a German Shepherd and Lab mix. She was approx. 6 months old, now she's a year old.

Okay, now that is the BEST swag item I've ever seen. :cry: :cry:

But what on earth could you have left in return that would be worth as much?

1k · November 2, 2006

I should get out into some of the other forums more often...

Here is our geopup midnight (though not much of a pup anymore at 70+lbs and 2 1/2yrs)

She is a Black Lab/Border Collie mix

November 2, 2006

Here's The Lazy Dog (VanGogh) waiting dutifully for me to finish up with the cache and get a move on!

November 5, 2006

Here's Bowser, the geo-dog, in a non-caching mode. I hope this works; never loaded a photo before :laughing: Okay, that fell through, How do I upload a photo? :blink:

Edited November 5, 2006 by 2ofHis

November 6, 2006

Here is our dog...Geo, the caching beagle. She has her own cache (doggy themed, of course!) and is also a TB.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i230/lilmztude2u/geo.jpg

November 6, 2006

Oliver. 100 percent Shepherd Dog, but he's a "coat".

November 7, 2006

This topic's been around a while and I'm happy to help keep it going. Here's Jack (half my geocaching name). He's semi-retired due to age and arthritis but manages the easy walks for a little caching. And he always enjoys a dip in the water. I haven't hidden a cache yet but I'm thinking of trying a dog themed cache.

Here are both halves of my caching name, Jack & Rocky.

Edited November 7, 2006 by jackrock