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,” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of dogs and their handlers will come from around the United States to put their skills to the test as Oh Rats Barn Hunt Club brings Oak Ridge’s first-ever barn hunt competition to the Oak ...

DOWNSVILLE, La. (AP) " On a rainy 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 ...

Barn Hunt is open to any dog of any breed or mix that can fit through a tunnel that is 18 inches wide and the height of a hay bale. The increasingly popular sport has an international association, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attend a Boise State football or a Boise Hawks baseball game, and you’ll see a hard worker with slick black hair working hard to collect tees, bats and balls thrown by the wayside. Or perhaps that ...

Rats in barns, as any barn owner will tell you, are nothing new, especially rats in hay-strewn barns. A dog going in a barn and flushing or catching rats isn’t out of the question, but some dogs seem ...