Loftus' Dog (Canterbury) Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand
By crigsfamily on 01-Dec-11. Waypoint GC2PDMG

Removed due to amount of disruption to the site. Looking very bare of rock, from everyone trying to find the cache.

could not find it last time easier this time thanks

Back home in Denmark after a lovely 3 weeks holiday in New Zealand and now there is time to log all the cache I found. Thanks to all cache owners to show me all these amazing places.
loggbogen was full when I found this cache

We thought today would be a good day to look for this cache, but discovered that there was a room full of people in a neighbouring house with a window in view of GZ. Sat on the seat and read the hint for a quick in and out, then a guy popped out of the house to see if we'd found it! Turned out this was the son-in-law of the occupants of the neighbouring house and everyone seemed to know about the cache.
Soon found the cache after that, nicely hidden and a great wee mosaic. TFTC.

#6827. Took a somewhat indirect route to GZ but got there in the end. Good to have a nudge in the right direction from the friendly muggle. TFTC.

Found with Master B on a cold wet morning. On the plus side, there are no muggles about. TFTC.

A new log is needed.

I had been to this GZ a forgotten number of times before and had always DNF'd. A week or so back whilst talking with another cacher some cache 'horse trading' was done and I received a powerful hint. Consequently the cache was a quick find as I cycled my in towards the city. The cache needs maintenance as the log is full. I am pleased that I can now remove it from unfound list.

Bonnie our Geodoggie had a Groomers appointment close by(She wanted to look fabulous for Christmas)and this was our closest unfound,and surprisingly a quick find for us.The Log Book was torn and there is only a couple of spaces left.We have seen quite a few of these type of hides in our travels,and very clever they are too.TFTH

Geohusband had this in hand before I could sit down and read the clue! Thanks crigs family 4 another great cache

Found with c@chetracker TFTC

TFTC third time lucky....

Owwww

Found today with Sherrynator

Pounced on it almost straight away - I was working on a very similar cache container last night! TFTC!

Found with ThoseTwoSams

We got very frustrated on this one. This is only our 13th cache and if it werent for a lovely neighbour coming out after 15 mins of searching, we wouldnt have found it at all. Thankfully with her help we got it and now know of these types of caches which will hopefully help with our future searches! TFTC

Found with M.O.M., Thanks for the cache!

A lot of luck here. Nice one. Thanks and greetings from Finland

Good hide:-) TFTC.

TFTC, very nice hide. Appears it may get moved around quite a bit. Kiwi chris & Pelhanka.

Tricky cache. Needed a little help from barekiwi.com. TFTC

Might need to rethink the GZ on this one. An elderly muggle (who looked a bit curmudgeonly) sits in her conservatory with a vista overlooking this area. Not possible to have a D3.5 search if she is in residence and may have led to that previous log. So, sat down and pondered the situation before leaving without more than a cursory look

Couldn't find it
This one still eludes me, and no friendly neighbour.
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Dog gonenit this one got me stumped too not for me today

This entry was edited by BMAC0625 on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 at 06:01:09 UTC.

Was just about to give up for the day as a southerly coming through, until a lovely neighbour offered us a hint put us on the right track and after a bit more searching it was found

Doing some caching on a massive steampunk weekend - found with endmosteye44, TFTC

Took a few attempts to find this one tftc

Nifty we hid tftc

Couldn't find it once again. Just no idea how or where to find this one. Frustrating little pooch.

4th or 5th visit. Just don't get this one.

My daughter found the dog, I found the cache and we both struggled with getting it back in. I arrived at GZ and a friend had told me about a cache in this area and it was this one. Remembering that conversation sped up the find today.

Thanks for the clever cache.

I swear this dog just sat there the whole time laughing at me till I just looked hard enough and BOOM there it was! Just sitting like the dog steering at me haha. TFTC FROM THE BAREKIWI.COM FILM CREW

Awesomeist cache yet. Seriously.

Wow what a cache! Very impressive. TFTC

Great cache done on bikes today in autumn sunshine. Helped by a very kind local who has met many new people through this cache! TFTC.

Great cache, good find nice place TFTC

A nice location for a cache

TFTC

friendly neighbour helpedme

Great spot - never seen a smaller cache. If only I had remembered my pen!

My excuse for not doing more CITO was that I wasn't in my car. Was hitting some caches with Purdie Purdie after Dork's event. She had already found this but it was on the way to one she hadn't found and last time I had wanted to find it I had run out of time.
Had me at a loss for a while it took not only a second look but a third and then when you think you have checked under every possibility you look in one more spot and there it is.
Nice to see a different twist to this size cache.
Thanks for the cache.

New Log

Found it after help from the friendly locals

TFTC, found with the help of a friendly local. Log is completely full, will post a maintenance log too.

Log is full, replacement needed.

Finally! After a clue from the lovely muggles who were laughing at our misdirected searches, we finally got it. Nicely done, thanks

New log please.

Found after advice from MacpacMum. Log book is full. Squeezed my name above someone else's. Tftc

Found 7:00am , find # 1924
Currently travelling through the South Island of New Zealand.
Today we looked around Christchurch, before driving to Akaroa for the night.
This was one of the finds made today.
First one of the morning, only a short distance from The Elms where we stayed. We looked for a while without luck, but we were then spotted by the owner of the adjacent home.
He was a jolly fellow who knew the secret, and encouraged us to keep looking until eventually I found it.
A nice hide, well done and a great location. This will fool lots more cachers.
Thanks crigsfamily.

Found on our @nd attempt.

This was 3rd time I had a go at trying to find this. The 1st time I freaked out at the old geezer sitting in his armchair staring out at me as I pretended to lose my keys or something, then I had a few drive bys but he was forever sitting there, today I had a wee go after work on my way home, no luck and went back after dinner and found Frank and Marys cat so figured I would be more lucky now I reckoned I knew what to look for, but NO. No find. I looked everywhere and still have no idea what I missed. I really REALLY want to find this now. Grrrrrr!

Thanks for the cache! Tiniest one I've seen!

Found. Very interesting location. The dog was very cute. Quite a cool little art piece that I wouldnt have known about if it wasn't for the cache.

Checked at lunch time Friday, all is in place. Cache is there

I had just found Frank and Mary's Cat cache, so left frustrated when I couldn't find this one.

Well... stink It was dark as I arrived, and I spent a good 20 mins searching as the place was gradually filled with light... unfortunately I had to end up leaving it, as I was now already late to the gym!!

I'll be back...

The mosiac was very nice. Cunning hide but some trial and error got us there in the end.

Very nice mosaic. Very nosey neighbours.

TFTC
helennbrian n 2/4 tribe

Looked for this once before with no sucess- but this time- found it. Very nice hide- thanks crigsfamily

1 of 37 caches Mum and I found today in attempts to reach 1000cache finds by the end of the year.
Yes! Finally got it. I suppose third time was lucky. Funnily enough I have looked at other cache sites for a hide like this but we have never searched for this kind of hide here before. Thanks for the cache

Bloke sitting eating his lunch on a Sunday afternoon so we did some other puzzle solving in the car on the IPAD before he wandered off. Took about 15 minutes to find this one. First style of cache like this I've come across. Very nice indeed. Well put together.

TFTC

it would help if we went to the right dog. Dad went to the wrong place. Fortunately one of the kids steered us right. quick find thereafter. very well done tftc

That was a beautifully crafted hide . It took us a while to find the cache, but it was easy enough to look, if not entirely innocent, then only slightly deranged as various muggles walked by. The only companion for the puppy was a sad, miaowing cat that seemed to want us to take it home. Thanks for the crafty hide, crigsfamily! =^.^=

Aww . . . what a little cutie. But oh my goodness what a place to search. So glad there were so few muggles but got there in the end. TFTC

Is Loftus a seeing eye dog? If so then we needed his help, we (dazzpete & Skullracing) felt blind today and couldn't sniff it out.

No luck for us today, there was too much activity from the house behind GZ so we tucked our tail between our legs and hope the next cacher has more success than we. Our thanks to crigsfamily for the stop. Cheers from Australia.

18:04
Arrived in Christchurch late yesterday on our way to the Event at Dunedin. Time for a bit of caching today before we head off tomorrow.
We were just about to give up and leave with our tail between our legs when P-P had bit more of a look and there it was! How did we miss that the first time?

TNLN . . SL . . Thanks for the hunt crigsfamily.
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Feeling a bit cocky after finding Frank & Mary's Cat, however rain and 2 previous DNFs meant our search wasnt as thorough as it could have been.

After 'viewing' previous logs, seems we were looking for the wrong type of container anyway.

Look forward to a return visit over the Alps so we can tick this one off.

Didn't find it today, look from bench with dog, looked a meter all around! Hadn't found it! Must have been muggled!

Hmm, this hide was too good for us. Not at the usual places, so have to try again.

Found it straight away on a lovely day, even with the world's biggest bumble bee on our tail. Really impressive cache. Tftc

Great instructions once I had GZ to myself. Thankfully all nearby houses were empty. I tried this before I went to see a movie. Time was tight and a few muggles about. Had a look in the obvious place but couldn't locate. Came to try again after finding the Cat cache with renewed vigor. Got him!!! Nice hide. TFTC.
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This entry was edited by TheWanglers on Friday, 14 September 2012 at 11:58:32 UTC.

This one was on our list to visit during our 36 hour cache raid of Canterbury. Excellent hide, gave the dog a pat and on to the next TFTC.

This entry was edited by rosmar on Saturday, 15 September 2012 at 05:28:19 UTC.

Unable to attempt due to the muggle sitting on the seat eating lunch. Will try again soon.

Called past at lunch time today (Wednesday) and all is well. Cache is in order

have to try again another day

We scratched our heads thought, looked,looked again, thought about going home, looked again and there it was. Neat hide. TFTC

We I first saw this cache I thought I had already found it as the hint was very similar to another cache, when I got there I knew it was new. Looked in the most obvious place, no luck! after crawling around a bit, Found! Nice hide. Thanks for the hunt

This entry was edited by La Vista on Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 06:24:26 UTC.

Called past at lunch time today (Monday) and all is well. Cache is in order, and "the cache container" can be seen from the spot described in the clue .

2nd visit. Better log a DNF.
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GOTCHA Took awhile ! Thanks

Very clever. TFTC

Very cleaver hide. I thought I had looked there but just about to give up then we found it. Found with Espired. TFTC.

This entry was edited by TheOrmos on Monday, 02 July 2012 at 09:33:42 UTC.

Second DNF for the day ... Kiwicampnut and I think that the plentiful snow is hiding something "obvious". Will be back after the thaw.

Missed this one before but from experience, I had a good idea of what I was looking for this time. Nice hide!

Thought I knew what we were looking for this time but we were just as unsuccessful. Have to wait til next time we are in ChCh. Thanks

Out caching with gracie7 + Mum. we couldnt find it

Found quickly - in the dark. TFTC.
I'll give it a favourite.

Found on my second attempt. Had more time on this lunchtime walk and the neighbors weren't home so didn't have to worry about them watching. Clever hide. TFTC.

We had good luck with Frank & Mary's Cat, so we thought we'd return today for this one. It was proving tough to find, but just when we were about to give up, I gave it one last look and got it right away. We logged it, put it back and were about to head away when the CO walked by! Good to meet him!

In the area again today and was also impressed with this GC (Frank & Mary's Cat's friend). As Mporokosa mentioned we met the CO and now I wish we had taken up the his offer to take us to the nearby Prestidigitator cache - which we could not find. TFTC

Found today with samsherry123. TFTC.

Took some time, sat back and thought about it then went methodical and got it, actually a friend along for the ride got it.
Nice hide.
TFTC.

Replaced the log , should be good to go for another 17 visits.

found with gabbie and bells whilst checking out our heritage at horner's corner. log book was full so couldn't sign, got a photo instead. TFTC

Although we don’t normally like dogs, we did like this one, and didn’t take long to find the clever cache. The log is full, but we managed to squeeze our name in. Unfortunately we moved the cache before realizing, so hope we replaced it correctly – fully visible. TFTC

This was my third (or was it fourth?) time. This time I sat in three different places and it was on the last that I spied the cache. I must have been within centimetres several times in previous attempts. Duh! Thanks for a good cache.

O.M.G what a cool cache

Nice spot for a cache.-Bitsprayer

Sat and thought, then through a process of elimination the clever hide was found.
Thanks
erninz

Found with LeahJett on nice easter evening