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 youre like me, you wont 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 miles if you just go
out to the box & back

Walking time: The sign says 1 hours to do the 3 miles

Contact to report problems or condition of box: Lonnie@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 dont allow him to harass the wildlife.
Please leave nothing but footprints.



If youre into Geocaching, theres a cache in this trail system, too.



The area is 7 miles south of M-55 in Houghton Lake on Reserve Road.
Youll see the sign and a small parking lot on your right.



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.





Neutering a dog will prolong your dogs 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.





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.



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



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 its 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).
Dont 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.



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



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.





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