Now that our barrel racing series has finished up, I am super excited to announce that Willow Creek Stables will be hosting the Barn Hunt Regionals from
May 10-12th in conjunction with K9 Athletes Sports Academy.
🐾 Barn Hunt is a scent work sport for dogs where they must find a hidden live rat 🐀 in a protected tube in a course made of straw. Along with the 🐀 filled tube, there are also tubes with just litter in it and empty tubes.
The dog is also required to travel through a tunnel and climb onto the bales of straw in order to complete the course to receive a qualified win within a certain amount of time. Each dog begins at the Novice level and can proceed to upper levels. Each level has a different number of rats and tubes to increase to level of proficiency.
I have attached a video of my girl Bella working in the Senior class (4 rats) as an example. You can also YouTube more videos for specific information about the sport and can also look up BarnHunt.com
➡️ The entries filled to capacity within 1 1/2 hours and we are expecting 150 handlers over this 3 day event.
‼️ The event will be open to visitors to watch and enjoy this fun dog sport!
More details to come as we get closer to the event date.