Organic material in caches

[ckoepke]

I believe leaving motel soaps in caches is a potential animal problem? Some of the B&B soaps are fairly alluring. Has anybody had their cans destroyed due to motel soaps.

Thanks.

[Clown Knife]

In my opinion, any aromatic item placed in a geocache has the potential of attracting animals that may destroy or ravage it. Animals have very strong noses and can sniff out the most seemingly "insignificant" aromatic items, such as chewing gum, lifesavers, PEZ candies, suntan lotion, and even soap. If it smells, then leave it at home.

 

Imagine life in a cacheless society!

[georapper]

i don't mean the whole MRE meal, but individual

packets, i don't think MRE's are organic and i

doubt any animal would want to eat them.

[+welch]

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Originally posted by ckoepke:

I believe leaving motel soaps in caches is a potential animal problem? Some of the B&B soaps are fairly alluring. Has anybody had their cans destroyed due to motel soaps.

Thanks.

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Anything with scent can attract animals, soap, candles, food, etc.

 

[magellan315]

Keep in mind that while you thing that it may have no odor at all, i.e. MRE's being sealed. Many animals hunt by smell and have a much more higly developed sense of smell. My brother has a beagle, taking it for walks is quite a challenge as it is a very scent oriented. It will find things that I didn't even realize were near.

[+Logscaler and Red]

While your thinking about the smells of the items your putting in caches, just think about

the smells thing pick up while just in your home ( Dinner and lunch and breakfast cooking), in your car ( Mickie D's), from your hands (Remember that Big mac and fries?) as you choose items to put in caches and handle the cache box. Just think about mice and squirrels searching for nesting materials and they smell the paper and cloth in the cache. If you want to go far enough, I would think you should be able to come up with a reason to leave all items out of any cache. The best thing to do is to use cache containers that will withstand “attack” from hungry or nesting critters.

 

Later, logscaler.

[+briansnat]

As it says on the hide a cache tutorial, "Do not put food in a cache". I'd add that anything that is heavily scented is a bad idea, soaps, candles, etc...

 

With all the possible great items to put in caches, I fail to understand why so many people insist on putting food in caches.

 

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" - Abraham Lincoln

[+Planet]

finding a chewed up strewn about cache container with a tin of fish filets in mustard sauce in it. Who would even can this item, let alone buy it, let alone eat it, let alone put it in a cache?!?!

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"To err is human, to forgive....$5.00"

[+briansnat]

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a tin of fish filets in mustard sauce in it

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Season sardines in mustard sauce. Mmmm, one of my favorite backpacking trail snacks! Dou't think I'd put it in a cache though.

 

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" - Abraham Lincoln

[+welch]

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Originally posted by Planet:

finding a chewed up strewn about cache container with a tin of fish filets in mustard sauce in it.

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Knipered Snacks or Sardines?

 

[+Faderaven]

I used to work for a kosher food distributor and part of my job was to stock the sardines and tuna. Those cans tend to leak and let me tell you it was stinky fun trying to figure which can out of hundreds on the shelf was going bad. *shudders* The only thing worse was moldy gefilte fish!! *retch*