Two weeks ago, before stay-at-home guidance was issued and the state’s definition of “essential” was tightened, a group of longtime friends and a few newcomers gathered at the regular time and place ...

LA MESA, New Mexico (KVIA) -- When it comes to keeping your dog active and healthy, what comes to mind? Most dog owners think of walking their dogs. Barn Hunt is a fun-filled sniffing activity for ...

ERIE, Colo. — Usually, when a person yells “rat!” they’re cursing vermin, not praising a dog. But when you take part in a barn hunt, the objective is for your dog to sniff out a heavy, perforated tube ...

Some local pups were out to smell a rat this weekend – but not the suspicious sort. The Aiken Barn Hunt club held its first trials event on Saturday, which will continue Sunday. The local barn hunt ...

WEST SALEM — Barn Hunt is not quite like finding a needle in a haystack, but the relatively new sport has some similarities. Dogs have the advantage in the sport, though, with their powerful probosces ...

MELBOURNE — Snout working overtime, Davey Crockett the Doberman Pinscher started sniffing for scents around straw bales stacked into an L-shaped tunnel formation. Target acquired: He quickly located a ...

The miniature Australian shepherd hurtled through the tunnel of hay bales, shuffling nose-first into a pile of straw on the other side in search of her goal: a rat tucked inside a tube, hidden ...

In Chino Hills, just beyond the Community Center and the Trader Joe’s, Tina Bevan at Silver Rose Ranch tends to her rat condo. All in a day’s work. “I think sometimes the rats try to taunt the dogs,” ...

On a rainy Friday afternoon in Downsville, Louisiana, a border collie named Mickey pawed at a pile of hay to notify her owner, Karla Gracia, she'd found her quarry. "Rat!" Gracia yelled, then ...

The Treasure Valley Barn Hunt’s very first Barn Hunt Trial will be held from Sept. 27-29 at the Gem County Fairgrounds. Over the past year and a half, a large portion of the community has come ...

KRONENWETTER - Mable is a 6-year-old French bulldog, the size and shape of a large loaf of bread, with two pointy ears sticking straight up from her smooshed face. She wears a solemn expression, until ...