NEUTERED Dogs are Good Dogs LbNA #5202
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Mar 8, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Town of Houghton Lake |
| County: | Roscommon |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | DogIsMyCoPirate  |
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| Found by: | Jeff_Cindy |
| Last found: | Aug 11, 2004 |
| Status: | Fa |
| Last edited: | Mar 8, 2003 |
Neutered dogs are Good Dogs
(#3 in the Dog Scouts of America Good Dog series)
The clues for finding the letterboxes in this series all have to do with creating a good dog. To “decode” the clues, answer the “puzzle” questions that appear before each clue section to fill in the blank. For more information about neutering your dog see the Dog Scouts of America web site www.dogscouts.org. Please visit our other letterboxes in the area: Good Dogs are Socialized, Good Dogs are Trained, and Good Dogs are Contained.
This letterbox is in the Lost Twin Lakes Hiking Area. This is a beautiful Au Sable State Forest, with lots of huge and very old White Pine and Red Pine trees. If you’re like me, you won’t be able to keep from stopping frequently to admire their majestic appearance. Answer the True/False questions to test your knowledge about neutering and the effect it has on a dog, then put the answer in the blank line of the sentence clue below it.
Location: Near Houghton Lake in Roscommon County, Michigan
Placed: March 8, 2003
By: Dog Is My CoPirate (Koda and me)
Clue difficulty: Easy
Terrain: Easy (mostly flat trails in a hiking pathway)
Distance: 3 miles if you complete the loop; 2 ½ miles if you just go out to the box & back
Walking time: The sign says 1 ½ hours to do the 3 miles
Contact to report problems or condition of box: @dogscouts.com
Hyperlink to web page with this and other boxes in this series on it: http://www.geocities.com/dogscout2000/DogIsMyCoPirate.html
Take your dog and enjoy the beautiful area. Please act responsibly and clean up after your pet, and don’t allow him to harass the wildlife. Please leave nothing but footprints.
If you’re into Geocaching, there’s a cache in this trail system, too.
The area is 7 miles south of M-55 in Houghton Lake on Reserve Road. You’ll see the sign and a small parking lot on your right.
1.Neutering is a generic term meaning to remove the sex organs. Males are neutered by castration or testiclectomy; females are neutered by spaying or ovariohysterectomy.
T South
F Northwest
Pull in, and go to the ______ end of the parking lot, near the brown wooden posts.
2.Neutering a dog will prolong your dog’s life by making it less susceptible to cancers of the reproductive organs.
T “No Motor Vehicles”
F “Dogs must be on leash”
There, you will see a trail that heads off into the woods, marked with a ______________ sign.
3.Your female dog should have a litter of puppies before you spay her because it will settle her down.
T take a compass heading of 214 degrees, and ask yourself if the words “wives tale” mean anything to you.
F take a compass heading of 360 degrees (North)
Walk past the many beautiful trees you see until you come to a sign post with no information on it. At this sign post, take a heading of _______, and continue down the trail.
4.Neutering your dog will make it less likely to run off and/or be hit by a car while in search of a mate.
T 107
F 73 (and try not to get very attached to your dog).
You will arrive at one of the blue, triangular pathway markers after about ______ steps. This will tell you if you went the right way…
5.Neutering your female dog will eliminate heat periods, so that your back yard will not be a stray dog magnet, when she is in season.
T 107
F 52 (and you might want to put an 8 foot fence around your backyard. If it’s chain link, make it a double fence (dogs can do amazing things through a fence when their sex organs are doing the thinking for them). Don’t forget to bury it two feet into the ground, too.
Keep going on down the trail until you are standing amongst some trees with “burls” on them, that look diseased. This will be roughly _______ steps.
6.You should wait until sexual maturity before you neuter your dog, otherwise, it will stunt his or her growth.
T 29
F 107
Continue for another ______ steps, which should place you in the center of something wood…
7.Neutering your male dog will take away his desire to do “testosterone-driven” behaviors, like humping things, scent marking things, challenging other males to fight, and becoming obsessed at the smell of a female in heat (roaming).
T 114
F 71
In another ______ steps, you will come to a tree with the blue hiking pathway triangles on both sides.
8.Neutering your dog means that you will not be contributing to the pet overpopulation problem, causing millions of dogs and cats to be put to death each year, because there are not enough homes to care for all of the unwanted puppies and “accidental” litters.
T 75
F 30
From there, continue along the trail about another _____ feet (not steps), until you see an Aspen that has curiously had some of it’s bark shaved off way up high (possibly by another falling tree, that has long since disappeared?
9.There are no litters of purebred puppies at the shelters. It’s easy to find homes for surplus purebreds.
T Birch, Red Pine (and talk to someone from a purebred rescue organization)
F White Pine, Aspen
Continue on down the trail to the very next blue pathway sign. Now, look all around at the trees in the surrounding area (within 50 feet). Find the biggest ______, which looks like it is trying to hide immediately behind the very large ________.
10.Before you breed a dog, you should check for any number of potential health problems that could be passed on to the offspring from either the sire or the dam (hip dysplasia, PRA, OCD, seizures, deafness...)
T 250 degrees
F 160 degrees
You will find these at a compass heading of ______.
11.Registration papers guarantee that your dog is of the best quality and is suitable for breeding with any other dog of the same breed.
T Birch (FYI-"papers" just mean that someone bothered to record who the parents of the dog were for a few generations--it doesn't mean that any of those dogs had sound temperaments or sound bodies)
F White Pine
Walk to the _________.
12.Neutering your dog will cause the brain to migrate back to the cranium, rather than residing in the sex organs, and your dog’s behavior will no longer be ruled by hormones that he or she has no control over.
T behind you, in the aspen’s trunk
F up high in the Birch Tree, and know that Timmie would still be in the well, if Lassie would have chosen a date with the neighbor’s dog over “Go get Gramps!”
Then, to find what you seek, look _____________________.
If you want to enjoy a nice walk, continue along the trail.
(#3 in the Dog Scouts of America Good Dog series)
The clues for finding the letterboxes in this series all have to do with creating a good dog. To “decode” the clues, answer the “puzzle” questions that appear before each clue section to fill in the blank. For more information about neutering your dog see the Dog Scouts of America web site www.dogscouts.org. Please visit our other letterboxes in the area: Good Dogs are Socialized, Good Dogs are Trained, and Good Dogs are Contained.
This letterbox is in the Lost Twin Lakes Hiking Area. This is a beautiful Au Sable State Forest, with lots of huge and very old White Pine and Red Pine trees. If you’re like me, you won’t be able to keep from stopping frequently to admire their majestic appearance. Answer the True/False questions to test your knowledge about neutering and the effect it has on a dog, then put the answer in the blank line of the sentence clue below it.
Location: Near Houghton Lake in Roscommon County, Michigan
Placed: March 8, 2003
By: Dog Is My CoPirate (Koda and me)
Clue difficulty: Easy
Terrain: Easy (mostly flat trails in a hiking pathway)
Distance: 3 miles if you complete the loop; 2 ½ miles if you just go out to the box & back
Walking time: The sign says 1 ½ hours to do the 3 miles
Contact to report problems or condition of box: @dogscouts.com
Hyperlink to web page with this and other boxes in this series on it: http://www.geocities.com/dogscout2000/DogIsMyCoPirate.html
Take your dog and enjoy the beautiful area. Please act responsibly and clean up after your pet, and don’t allow him to harass the wildlife. Please leave nothing but footprints.
If you’re into Geocaching, there’s a cache in this trail system, too.
The area is 7 miles south of M-55 in Houghton Lake on Reserve Road. You’ll see the sign and a small parking lot on your right.
1.Neutering is a generic term meaning to remove the sex organs. Males are neutered by castration or testiclectomy; females are neutered by spaying or ovariohysterectomy.
T South
F Northwest
Pull in, and go to the ______ end of the parking lot, near the brown wooden posts.
2.Neutering a dog will prolong your dog’s life by making it less susceptible to cancers of the reproductive organs.
T “No Motor Vehicles”
F “Dogs must be on leash”
There, you will see a trail that heads off into the woods, marked with a ______________ sign.
3.Your female dog should have a litter of puppies before you spay her because it will settle her down.
T take a compass heading of 214 degrees, and ask yourself if the words “wives tale” mean anything to you.
F take a compass heading of 360 degrees (North)
Walk past the many beautiful trees you see until you come to a sign post with no information on it. At this sign post, take a heading of _______, and continue down the trail.
4.Neutering your dog will make it less likely to run off and/or be hit by a car while in search of a mate.
T 107
F 73 (and try not to get very attached to your dog).
You will arrive at one of the blue, triangular pathway markers after about ______ steps. This will tell you if you went the right way…
5.Neutering your female dog will eliminate heat periods, so that your back yard will not be a stray dog magnet, when she is in season.
T 107
F 52 (and you might want to put an 8 foot fence around your backyard. If it’s chain link, make it a double fence (dogs can do amazing things through a fence when their sex organs are doing the thinking for them). Don’t forget to bury it two feet into the ground, too.
Keep going on down the trail until you are standing amongst some trees with “burls” on them, that look diseased. This will be roughly _______ steps.
6.You should wait until sexual maturity before you neuter your dog, otherwise, it will stunt his or her growth.
T 29
F 107
Continue for another ______ steps, which should place you in the center of something wood…
7.Neutering your male dog will take away his desire to do “testosterone-driven” behaviors, like humping things, scent marking things, challenging other males to fight, and becoming obsessed at the smell of a female in heat (roaming).
T 114
F 71
In another ______ steps, you will come to a tree with the blue hiking pathway triangles on both sides.
8.Neutering your dog means that you will not be contributing to the pet overpopulation problem, causing millions of dogs and cats to be put to death each year, because there are not enough homes to care for all of the unwanted puppies and “accidental” litters.
T 75
F 30
From there, continue along the trail about another _____ feet (not steps), until you see an Aspen that has curiously had some of it’s bark shaved off way up high (possibly by another falling tree, that has long since disappeared?
9.There are no litters of purebred puppies at the shelters. It’s easy to find homes for surplus purebreds.
T Birch, Red Pine (and talk to someone from a purebred rescue organization)
F White Pine, Aspen
Continue on down the trail to the very next blue pathway sign. Now, look all around at the trees in the surrounding area (within 50 feet). Find the biggest ______, which looks like it is trying to hide immediately behind the very large ________.
10.Before you breed a dog, you should check for any number of potential health problems that could be passed on to the offspring from either the sire or the dam (hip dysplasia, PRA, OCD, seizures, deafness...)
T 250 degrees
F 160 degrees
You will find these at a compass heading of ______.
11.Registration papers guarantee that your dog is of the best quality and is suitable for breeding with any other dog of the same breed.
T Birch (FYI-"papers" just mean that someone bothered to record who the parents of the dog were for a few generations--it doesn't mean that any of those dogs had sound temperaments or sound bodies)
F White Pine
Walk to the _________.
12.Neutering your dog will cause the brain to migrate back to the cranium, rather than residing in the sex organs, and your dog’s behavior will no longer be ruled by hormones that he or she has no control over.
T behind you, in the aspen’s trunk
F up high in the Birch Tree, and know that Timmie would still be in the well, if Lassie would have chosen a date with the neighbor’s dog over “Go get Gramps!”
Then, to find what you seek, look _____________________.
If you want to enjoy a nice walk, continue along the trail.