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Jun 17
UKC Premier 2013
Jennifer Riess (BHA judge, rat handler, trainer), her husband Gary, and I drove up to Kalamazoo Michigan last Thursday to do a clinic/intro to Barn Hunt at the UKC Premier. Virginia Huxley, another BHA judge, was able to join us late Saturday morning and stay the rest of the day as well. The UKC staff
Jun 05
Shirts at Premier
Just approved the shirt design for the shirts I am doing for the Premier. There will only be 60 shirts total, 6 small, 6 medium, 18 each of Large and XL, and 6 2X. Again, no price yet, I haven’t gotten the final tab yet on cost. These are mens-style heavy-cotton shirts. The gray is
May 31
UKC Premier and Info
The schedule for Barn Hunt (and Nosework as well) has now been set for the UKC Premier, which will be in Kalamazoo, MI June 13-16. Barn Hunt will run a “Rat-N-Go” on Friday and Saturday, 9 to noon and 2 to 5. Registration for the morning event starts at 8:30, registration for the afternoon event
Just a reminder that the Barn Hunt offices will be completely closed from May 13 through May 20. That means registrations and show results will NOT be processed during that time. Nor will applications for fun matches or trials, or judge applications. Please submit anything you need processed either before or after those dates, not
Apr 26
Barn Hunt at the UKC Premier
Entries for the UKC Premier in Kalamazoo, MI close on May 1. Are you going? If so, there will be a Rat-N-Go on Friday and Saturday! Come introduce your dog to the sport. You don’t need to sign up in advance, signups open at 8:30 on Friday and Saturday morning. We will then run people
Apr 11
IMPORTANT: Trial Entry Note
We have had some questions come up with regards to entering trials, so I want to make some things clear to everyone. Clubs may offer RATI once each trial day or once each trial (so if there are two trials per day, RATI may be offered twice in that day). If you wish to enter
It has come to my attention that Performance Dogs in Action in California is holding what they call a “Farm Hunt” at their facility in Pleasant Grove, CA in April. This event, which bans all bully breeds, is not a sanctioned Barn Hunt Association event. Unfortunately, in investigating this in response to a question from
Mar 24
Sample Title Certificate
Want to get an idea of what the new title certificates will look like? Well here it is. Title certificates will be generated electronically and sent to you by email. You may then choose to print or not. This will mean a quicker turn around time on certificates as well saving trees!
Mar 15
Rat Care and Consideration
I just heard today that PETA has made Barn Hunt an “Action Event” and is urging people to contact the owner of the event center in which we will hold our first trial and stop Barn Hunting. The owner of CCSC, who is also a researcher who has spent decades working with rats and mice
The Rules and Judge Guidelines are no longer considered in “draft” form. Barring unforeseen circumstances, these rules will be considered final for the year 2013. We will review the rules and judge guidelines at the end of this year with the possibility of changing some aspects of the rules/guidelines for 2014, but at this time,
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