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Location: West Sussex UK
Joined: Jan 2010
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Fun Dog Walk
Last weekend a friend & I organised a mystery dog walk plus "treasure hunt" for all the dogs & owners that had been through training classes. It was great fun & we all ended up in the gardens of a dog friendly pub for drinks & lunch, followed by a stroll back to where we'd left the cars.
My friend & I got up early Sunday morning & set out the course, using brightly-coloured tags pinned to trees to show the way. We also gave each team a list of a dozen or so things to collect on the way, then set each team off at 5 min intervals & asked the last team to collect the tags & any instructions pinned to the trees.
Some of the items to collect were relatively easy. e.g. 3 types of funghi, holly berries, a feather etc, but some were impossible, e.g a clothes peg, a carrot & a penny. But we cached these items somewhere near notices with clues, e.g. "a pony's treat" for the carrots.
We had 2 lots of winners, the fastest time & the team that found the most items. We charged an entry fee with the proceeds going to a charity of the fastest team's choice, & a prize of a voucher for a professional photo session for their dogs for the team that collected the most items.
It seems everyone enjoyed it & the dogs all had great fun charging around the woods chasing squirrels
. We only lost one team but were able to give them directions to the pub by phone!! It made our normal Sunday morning stroll into a fun day out & we had some very tired dogs by the end.
Has anyone else tried something like this?