+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) As myself and jennie.m had a very similar idea about trying to set up a network of Dog Walker caches across the UK, I emailed her about the idea and she emailed me back and asked me to float the idea in the forums to see what kind of a response we would get. Would you be interested in helping us to set up a net work of Dog Walker Caches across the UK. Only 3 very simple rules as we want nothing technical or complicated. 1. All caches must be fully dog friendly, meaning the dog can go from the car to the cache and back again with out any obstruction getting in their way, meaning no stiles they have to be lifted over ect. 2. You set the cache, you maintain the cache, and preferably a traditional cache with swaps as a lot of families with children cache with dogs. 3. The cache will be called Dog Walkers Cache - (your county) (your dogs name) So our will be called ......... Dog Walkers Cache - Durham (Jess) Would you like to help us! It would be great if we could get at least one of these in each county in the UK. You don't have to even be a dog owner, just a dog friendly cache for other cachers. Mandy Edited April 15, 2007 by Us 4 and Jess Quote Link to comment
+ryme-intrinseca Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 I can't actually think of anywhere else to put a cache at the moment - or at least, not until I hear back from my locacl council. However, several of my caches are dog-friendly, and are placed along routes that I have found whilst out dog walking with my mum. (hehe, that sounds weird! I mean with my mum and her dog, of course! ) From what I understand though, your idea is to place new caches, rather than adding descriptions or changing title of old ones - is that correct? Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 (edited) I can't actually think of anywhere else to put a cache at the moment - or at least, not until I hear back from my locacl council. However, several of my caches are dog-friendly, and are placed along routes that I have found whilst out dog walking with my mum. (hehe, that sounds weird! I mean with my mum and her dog, of course! ) From what I understand though, your idea is to place new caches, rather than adding descriptions or changing title of old ones - is that correct? You could just set a cache where you walk your dog on a daily basis, and yes we would like a new set of caches to cover the UK called Dog Walker Caches M Edited April 15, 2007 by Us 4 and Jess Quote Link to comment
+jennie.m Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 It would be nice if these were really good places for the dogs to go to, where they could have fun, not get told off for chasing sheep, not have to stay on their leads the whole time, and do the things dogs love to do (sniff about, stick their heads down rabbit holes, and get wet and muddy according to my dogs!) Think "where would the dog choose to go for a walk?" Quote Link to comment
The Red Kite Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Most of mine are dog friendly apart from Allt Glais, which is in a field of sheep with open access. I would love to set a doggy cache, and had originally thought that I would include some treats for the hounds in my caches, but thought the smell of food would encouage unwanted attention from other animals. If I find somewhere suitable, I would be happy to place one Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Most of mine are dog friendly apart from Allt Glais, which is in a field of sheep with open access. I would love to set a doggy cache, and had originally thought that I would include some treats for the hounds in my caches, but thought the smell of food would encouage unwanted attention from other animals. If I find somewhere suitable, I would be happy to place one We have a cache called Jess's cache already that has dog treats in, in a sealed bag, they have been there a while and seem OK although there is a big stone in front of it. M Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Let me know your county and dogs name please Red Kite and I will make a list. OK I will start if off We will do Dog Walkers Cache - Durham (Jess) Mandy Quote Link to comment
+minxyy Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 We were in good old A S D A this am getting supplies for returning to school and guess what we saw next to the ladies jewellery........some doggie and pussie charms and spangley leads and collers......yeah not in the pet aisle! Whatever next? ps were thinking of placing a pet themed cache so may well be up for this one ....just waiting to hear back from BoP re potential cache sites! Quote Link to comment
+The Dog Walkers Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Do I get royalties for each one set?! For what it's worth, I think it's an excellent idea! Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Do I get royalties for each one set?! For what it's worth, I think it's an excellent idea! Well add your county and your dogs names Mandy Quote Link to comment
+The Toogood Family Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Can we do one please - only we have two dogs! Berkshire - Guinness Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Can we do one please - only we have two dogs! Berkshire - Guinness There's an easy solution to that Daryl................ Do one for each dog M Quote Link to comment
+jennie.m Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 well I'll do Ceredigion-Colin I have two dogs so will probably add another for Pip at some point Quote Link to comment
+thekennelat79 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Hi Mandy, Have a look at my own caches and then ask me whether I want to set a dog themed cache! Sea Dog Collie's Climb Sheepdogs at Stansted Black and White at Havant The Dog's Tale Dog Tracks One Man and His Dogs Dog's Home Dog Collar Muddy Paws Canine Conundrum West Stoke Walkies Bosham Border Prickly Paws Dog Training Dog Wood Border Collie Path Dog Paddle Rod Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Well then there will be no problem with.. Dog Walkers Cache - Havant (what ever county that is) (dogs name) Mandy Quote Link to comment
+wheelybarrow Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 (edited) We would like to do three Devon - Penny Devon - Mary Devon - Rosie after all they each have their own TB so why not their own cache too. Edited April 17, 2007 by wheelybarrow Quote Link to comment
+jennie.m Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 Dog Walkers Cache Ceredigion Colin GC13479 published today. Any others been placed yet? Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 (edited) Oh wow that's great. I have just read the page too and the cache is filled with doggie stuff too Asda is doing packs of 3 coloured tennis balls for 50p so I will go and get a few packs of those tomorrow, to fill a cache (if Jess does not gt them first ) I didn't think folks seemed very interested. If anyone would like to set a dog walkers cache, please let us know your dogs name and county, I will make a list soon. Watch out for Dog Walkers Cache - Durham - Jess........ This weekend Mandy Edited May 24, 2007 by Us 4 and Jess Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 Below is a list of counties if you would be willing to set a Dog Walkers Cache in any of these please let me know. Let me know your county and dogs name, and when the cache goes live. I think we would be happy if 20/30 caches could be set. ENGLAND Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham....................Jess Essex Glouchestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne & Wear Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire SCOTLAND Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll & Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries & Galloway Dundee East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Perth & Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian WALES Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion..............................Colin (live) Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taff Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham Quote Link to comment
+Westie Walker Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Have 5 Caches under Weties walkks in the Hants/Surry/Berks borders if anybody wants to do them, none of them are difficult and with some I have added cache and dash options for the less dog friendly. West Highland terriers will only take so much exercise before they do a Mule impersonation so the 4 at Yateley heath woods would be a 3 mile walk at the most. Westie Walker Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 As myself and jennie.m had a very similar idea about trying to set up a network of Dog Walker caches across the UK, I emailed her about the idea and she emailed me back and asked me to float the idea in the forums to see what kind of a response we would get. Would you be interested in helping us to set up a net work of Dog Walker Caches across the UK. Only 3 very simple rules as we want nothing technical or complicated. 1. All caches must be fully dog friendly, meaning the dog can go from the car to the cache and back again with out any obstruction getting in their way, meaning no stiles they have to be lifted over ect. 2. You set the cache, you maintain the cache, and preferably a traditional cache with swaps as a lot of families with children cache with dogs. 3. The cache will be called Dog Walkers Cache - (your county) (your dogs name) So our will be called ......... Dog Walkers Cache - Durham (Jess) Would you like to help us! It would be great if we could get at least one of these in each county in the UK. You don't have to even be a dog owner, just a dog friendly cache for other cachers. Mandy The problem I find with routes where dog walkers go, it that they normally have a trail of Dog s**t along them. Now I'm acusing no one here, but it is the bad walkers that make dog owners look bad. Quote Link to comment
+jennie.m Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 The problem I find with routes where dog walkers go, it that they normally have a trail of Dog s**t along them. Now I'm acusing no one here, but it is the bad walkers that make dog owners look bad. I agree that this disgusting behaviour can ruin a great walk, so if you know a place that suffers in this way, why not place a cache with a variation on CITO, "cache in c@*p out". Put a pack of dog mess bags and prehaps some disposable gloves in the cache, and give the co-ords of the nearest bin. Visitors to the cache can help to clean up the area. Quote Link to comment
+Donmoore Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 (edited) Below is a list of counties if you would be willing to set a Dog Walkers Cache in any of these please let me know. Let me know your county and dogs name, and when the cache goes live. I think we would be happy if 20/30 caches could be set. ENGLAND Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham....................Jess Essex Glouchestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Tyne & Wear Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire SCOTLAND Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll & Bute Clackmannanshire Dumfries & Galloway Dundee East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh Falkirk Fife Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Perth & Kinross Renfrewshire Scottish Borders South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian WALES Blaenau Gwent Bridgend Caerphilly Cardiff Carmarthenshire Ceredigion..............................Colin (live) Conwy Denbighshire Flintshire Gwynedd Merthyr Tydfil Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Newport Pembrokeshire Powys Rhondda Cynon Taff Swansea Torfaen Vale of Glamorgan Wrexham I was thinking about adding some but it appears Northern Ireland is no longer part of the UK according to this post. better let the Mods know as there are loads of UK caches in N.I Edited May 27, 2007 by Donmoore Quote Link to comment
The Red Kite Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 The problem I find with routes where dog walkers go, it that they normally have a trail of Dog s**t along them. Now I'm acusing no one here, but it is the bad walkers that make dog owners look bad. I agree that this disgusting behaviour can ruin a great walk, so if you know a place that suffers in this way, why not place a cache with a variation on CITO, "cache in c@*p out". Put a pack of dog mess bags and prehaps some disposable gloves in the cache, and give the co-ords of the nearest bin. Visitors to the cache can help to clean up the area. Nice idea Jennie, but why should we clear up after other people's dogs?? You may well have noticed that some of my Rainbow Series caches are spoiled by the **** left by muggles with their dogs. (Not accusing cachers I hasten to add!!) I have even been at one of them while the owner stood there and ignored his dog while it "did the business" Another favourite game at a certain spot (not a cache site thank goodness) is to pick the mess up and then leave the bag hanging in the bushes. Community art? I dont think so Not wishing to offend any dog owners, and I am certainly not "anti dog" - I have just become a surrogate mother to a lovely springer spaniel who I am intending to take caching soon.Maybe I will set a special cache for him Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 (edited) Although I do agree with a lot of what has been said in this thread it is now going off topic What myself and Jennie set this thread up for was to see if any would like to help us to set up a small network of Dog Walker Caches. It does not look like many people seem very interested in the OP, I will leave it a couple of more days and if we get no replies we will give this up as a bad idea. I do know lots of cachers have dogs and I thought maybe a few would have liked to help out and set up a few caches for fun for other dog walking cachers. My appologise to Donmoore for not including Ireland in my list, the list I copied and pasted was from my Counties TB which is just for mainland UK, that is why Ireland and it's counties were not on the list. If you would like to set a Dog Walkers Cache in Ireland please do so and let us know. M Edited May 28, 2007 by Us 4 and Jess Quote Link to comment
+JUSTHEJOB Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 My cache Colwyn Bay N Wales Toby and the Fox Quote Link to comment
+dog-walker Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Although I do agree with a lot of what has been said in this thread it is now going off topic What myself and Jennie set this thread up for was to see if any would like to help us to set up a small network of Dog Walker Caches. It does not look like many people seem very interested in the OP, I will leave it a couple of more days and if we get no replies we will give this up as a bad idea. I do know lots of cachers have dogs and I thought maybe a few would have liked to help out and set up a few caches for fun for other dog walking cachers. ... M Just read this thread, great idea. I've been getting my first cache together to place on a walk I do with Sam. I was wondering what to call it but now I know! Nottinghamshire - Sam Hoping to place soon. Den. Quote Link to comment
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