Hey, did anyone notice the new cache type?

1.2k · October 9, 2003

Hey I just saw the new form of geocache that was added to the cache types page. This just proves that if you wait long enough you can get what you ask for.

Lapaglia

Muga Muchu (forget yourself, focus)

9.2k · October 9, 2003

This is FANTASTIC! As one of the pioneers of small animal signature items, I am delighted to see that critter-friendly caches have been officially recognized. Looks like my many e-mails to TPTB have paid off. I do appreciate how the site makes improvements in response to the community's needs, as our game develops in new directions.

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Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

October 9, 2003

Excellent! Now I can hide my Richard Gere cache!

5.2k · October 9, 2003

Wow! That is really cool. I'll make sure to add support to GPX Spinner right away.

Lil Devil

October 9, 2003

Our kids love small animals, they will be happy to find one of these. Thanks for the new cache type!!

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8.4k · October 9, 2003

NO FOOD IN CACHES!!!!

Sngans

Sacred cows make the best hamburger....Mark Twain.

9.2k · October 9, 2003

OF COURSE no food in caches... because, as so eloquently stated by Tonsil, the creator of hamstercaching, "that would be wrong." The food constraint is one of the reasons why high-traffic areas are preferred for this cache type.

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Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

October 9, 2003

Buggsy wants to do a cache where you have to enter the container to claim it. Not only that, but you have to wait there till the next cacher comes by to let you out by taking your place. How long will we have to wait for that one to be 'typed'?

Only nuts eat squirrels,

Snake

3.8k · October 10, 2003

Sorry, carleenp. I am really a cat lover!

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**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

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October 10, 2003

If the critter in the cashe cries at night and no one is around to here it, does it make a sound? Yup, a hampster in a cashe is a coyote treat up here in Maine. Good Luck on this one!

2.7k · October 10, 2003

Dude, that's not funny. In fact, it's downright cruel. What happens when the critter gets bored, and starts chewing on the container?

YOU GET A RUINED CACHE CONTAINER, THAT'S WHAT!

Poor little cache-box...

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1.1k · October 10, 2003

I heard near Las Vegas there's a new animal cache by a cacher using the name Roy. Called the Feed the White Tiger Cache.

October 10, 2003

I did a cache one time with one of my dogs in it, but he bit a guy in the ba**s, and it had to end.

1.7k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Cupajo:
Excellent! Now I can hide my _Richard Gere_ cache!

But GCGERE is already taken. By me. Bwahahahaha! (Check out the 'alt' tag on the 'no dogs' icon...)

[Edit: Well, there WAS an alt tag on that icon. Now all of the alt tags on all of the images on all of my caches are missing. They still show up when I edit the cache, though. Jeremy?]

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2.7k · October 10, 2003

Are the ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ever going to jump on this one. We've gone from MC D Toys to animals in a cage.

I better see if my rabies shot is up to date before I go looking for one of these.

If the animal dies while in the cache I suppose the cache owner will be subject to animal cruelty charges.

This is not a good thing for Geocaching.

After I read the other forums I know what is happening now! Sounds similar to a forum about

food for a Cache event. Its time to have a sharp knive in these caches along with some salt and tabasco sauce. Eat on the run.

Tahosa - Dweller of Mountain Tops.

[This message was edited by Tahosa and Sons on October 10, 2003 at 12:32 PM.]

4.8k · October 10, 2003

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I have plans for a kitty litter cache. No...make that a litter of kitties cache

Has anyone seen my pikachu?????

4.8k · October 10, 2003

Never mind, I went to a pika cache and got another one!

October 10, 2003

Well, I knew this couldn't be serious, but I had to look at the link twice until I saw it was not "geocaching." Had me scared for a second.

October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by carleenp:
Never mind, I went to a pika cache and got another one!

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LOL!

2.3k · October 10, 2003

Can I do a manatee cache? Anyone have a howetzer sized ammo can??

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3k · October 10, 2003

My plecko is getting way to big for his fish tank so I'm thinking of placing one in a lake somewhere. It's going to be rated a 5 because you'll need a fishing pole to get him. I like this new idea for caching. I never knew what to do with this fish, short of a bigger fish tank. This gives me more options, thanks TBTP!

Planet

9.2k · October 10, 2003

Doc-Dean: I suppose you could just select "large" as your cache size, and explain in the cache description that it is not really a "small" animal. As with all caches, so long as the cache page tells the finder what sort of conditions to expect, that's fine by me. For your cache I'd know to show up with four-wheel drive and a bathtub. I hope you wouldn't expect me to trade up?

Planet -- haven't you read the guidelines? "A lake is a lake, but a lake is not a cache."

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Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

October 10, 2003

Did someone forget to think about this one? What happens when the snow starts falling, and it gets covered in a couple of feet of snow. (No air) Or when the temp drops below zero. Or a flood. Not every one will put one in a flood plain, but there is always one idiot that dosn't know what he's doing.

I think this is a bad idea and cruel to the animal.

Also, think about the person who thinks it would be cool to put a snake in one and dosn't realize it't poisonous?

I bought a GPSr so the ladies would stop telling me to get lost. It didn't work .

October 10, 2003

Let's see a caver drop a tupperwared badger into a campfire......

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9.2k · October 10, 2003

Here in Pittsburgh, we are as careful with the placement of our hamstercaches as, for example, the good folks in Austin are with their moving caches. There is a certain amount of responsibility and common sense involved, just as with any cache placement.

As for bad weather, this just adds to the thrill of the hunt. Sometimes you make it there in time, sometimes you don't. It is sort of like dashing out to get a GeoCoin that someone left for you in a cache before somebody else swipes it.

Tahosa and WVDan -- please forgive me for being an ugly creature who lives under a bridge.

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Next time, instead of getting married, I think I'll just find a woman I don't like and buy her a house.

October 10, 2003

Wow..I thought you were all serious for a minute! Animals in caches...hahahaha. I will add however, clever thinking with the air holes, that way the animals odor can emanate from the cache so a MUCH BIGGER ANIMAL CAN COME AND EAT IT!!!! Glad this thread is just a joke!

This is no time for fun and games...FIND THE CACHE!!

2.3k · October 10, 2003

I like monkeys.

The pet store was selling them for 5¢ each. I thought that was odd since they were normally a couple thousand dollars each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth.

I bought 200.

I like monkeys.

I took my 200 monkeys home.

I have a big car.

I let one of them drive. His name was Sigmund.

He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals.

I laughed.

Then they punched my genitals.

I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my apartment.

They didn't adapt very well to their new environment.

They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall.

Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died.

No apparent reason.

They all just sort of dropped dead.

Kind odd like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later.

dadgum cheap monkeys.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my apartment. On the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase.

It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet.

It didn't work. It got stuck.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals.

That worked for a while.

That is until they began to decompose.

Then it started to smell real bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber.

I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them.

Unfortunately, there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time, so I had to change them every 30 seconds.

I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.

I tried burning them.

Little did I know my bed was flammable.

I had to extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed.

The odor wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys or use the bathroom.

I severely beat one of my monkeys.

I felt better.

I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates.

I told him that I had a wet one.

He couldn't take that one either.

I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution.

I gave them out as Christmas gifts.

My friends didn't know quite what to say.

They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying.

Ingrates.

So I punched them in the genitals.

I like monkeys.

I guess I'll have to put them in a cache.

Joel (joefrog)

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for ye are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!"

October 10, 2003

Now is a hamstercache still ok if you put a snake in it, or is it suddenly a snake cache with food in it?

They say this universe is bound to blow,

I say we crank up the Calypso Control!

~Jimmy Buffett

~Someday I Will~

5.3k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by WVDan:
Not every one will put one in a flood plain, but there is always one idiot that dosn't know what he's doing.

I've seen beer can "coozies" that look like little life preservers. I'm sure a small modification (read: "duct tape") will allow them to be used on small rodents.

October 10, 2003

this is just pure and simply animal cruelty.

October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Chikn' Huntn':
this is just pure and simply animal cruelty.

It's also pure and simply a joke.

October 10, 2003

It's interesting how many people didn't get that this is a joke, all it takes is a quick look at the url.

RX

Any deity worthy of a graven image can cobble up a working universe complete with fake fossils in under a week - hey, if you're not omnipotent, there's no real point in being a god. But to start with a big ball of elementary particles and end up with the duckbill platypus without constant twiddling requires a degree of subtlety and the ability to Think Things Through: exactly the qualities I'm looking for when I'm shopping for a Supreme Being.

October 10, 2003

Let's see...

There was that guy that airshipped himself in a crate. So was he a locationless animal cache?

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2k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by RingXero:
It's interesting how many people didn't get that this is a joke, all it takes is a quick look at the url.

RX

I didn't notice the URL, but I knew it had to be a joke since almost any small animal IS food, prohibited by the rules.

I thought Jeremy just had all his other updates done and was taking some time out to play a joke...

3.8k · October 10, 2003

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Has anyone seen my pikachu?????

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**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

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October 10, 2003

ahh reminds me of:

bonsai kitten

October 10, 2003

This was a great read. Wonderful waste of work time on a Friday. Thanks everyone for the funny comments, and the Monkey story -- great. LOL funny.

Kirk out.

3.8k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by jeeplife:
ahh reminds me of:

http://www.bonsaikitten.com/

Absolutely hilarious!

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**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

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7.2k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by geospotter:

quote:
Originally posted by Chikn' Huntn':
this is just pure and simply animal cruelty.

It's also pure and simply a joke.

Sorry, but no joking is allowed in these forums. My former signature image is proof of that. You can only complain.

I demand the large animal cache type too!

mtn-man... admin brick mason

"approver of all trades" -- per Woodsters Outdoors

3.5k · October 10, 2003

This is NOT good people, and you know it!

What's going to happen to me? I want to put THESE animals in my caches. I'll quote from the page:

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Neopets® is the greatest Virtual Pet Site on the Internet.

Is the administration going to let me place virtual pets? Nooooooo.

My virtual pets MUST be validated!!!!

Bret (who really oughta be working)

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

When a man found it, he hid it again." Mt. 13:44

October 10, 2003

If I'm out hunting one of these new caches and don't bring my own trade animal, is it kosher to pick up any old kritter I happen find along the way and stuff it in as a trade? Or is that too similar to dirty golfball trading in traditional caches

2.3k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by MountainMudbug:
If I'm out hunting one of these new caches and don't bring my own trade animal, is it kosher to pick up any old kritter I happen find along the way and stuff it in as a trade? Or is that too similar to dirty golfball trading in traditional caches

From the soon to be release small animal cache guidlelines: "The small animal is to be considered a FTF prize and is NOT to be replaced with another animal"

I hope that clears things up.

I work for the QOFE that works for the Frog

The Frog is my friend

2.3k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Rich & Perrie:
1. Do NOT let it come in contact with water.

2. Do NOT feed it after midnight.

LOL -- great reminder. Sadly enough, those two "rules" are probably lost on the current generation! Don't believe me? Ask any kid if he knows what a "gremlin" is and see...

Joel (joefrog)

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for ye are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!"

3.8k · October 10, 2003

quote:
"The small animal is to be considered a FTF prize and is NOT to be replaced with another animal"

So trading up is out of the question?

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**(the other 9 out of 10 voices in my head say: "Don't do it.")**

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2.3k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by sept1c_tank:

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"The small animal is to be considered a FTF prize and is NOT to be replaced with another animal"

So _trading up_ is out of the question?

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Yes I am sorry but trading UP is not an option

I work for the QOFE that works for the Frog

The Frog is my friend

5.3k · October 10, 2003

I've been experimenting with tatooing travel bug ID numbers onto the backs of live frogs. Moving these from cache to cache will still be allowed, right?

2.3k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Stunod:
I've been experimenting with tatooing travel bug ID numbers onto the backs of live frogs. Moving these from cache to cache will still be allowed, right?

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Hmmmmmmm I need to consult with the frog on this one, Ill get back to you.

I work for the QOFE that works for the Frog

The Frog is my friend

4.1k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by MountainMudbug:
If I'm out hunting one of these new caches and don't bring my own trade animal, is it kosher to pick up any old kritter I happen find along the way and stuff it in as a trade? Or is that too similar to dirty golfball trading in traditional caches

We think it should be O.K. to trade as long as you don't get the animal from Here!

Just us old farts...

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It's hard to remember that your primary objective is to drain the swamp, when you're up to your a$$ in alligators.

October 10, 2003

If a snake ate the hamster would the snake become the cache container? If so I guess you'd have to weight it down with rocks or something so it doesn't slither off and become locationless.

I think I'll got get my 3-gallon aquarium cache set up.

7.2k · October 10, 2003

quote:
Originally posted by Citizensmith:
If a snake ate the hamster would the snake become the cache container? If so I guess you'd have to weight it down with rocks or something so it doesn't slither off and become locationless.

I think I'll got get my 3-gallon aquarium cache set up.

It would be a moving cache instead of a locationless I guess. Rocks would probably be the best way to go.

mtn-man... admin brick mason

"approver of all trades" -- per Woodsters Outdoors

Hey, did anyone notice the new cache type?

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