BARN HUNT COMING SOON❗️
What Is Barn Hunt?
Barn Hunt is a rapidly growing canine sport designed to showcase a dog’s natural scenting ability, hunting instinct, and problem-solving skills. In a controlled and safe environment, dogs navigate a course made of straw bales to locate a hidden, securely contained live rat using only their nose. This sport emphasizes teamwork, confidence building, and the natural partnership between dog and handler.
How Barn Hunt Works
Participants move through a structured course that may include tunnels, climbs, and elevated bales. Dogs must identify and indicate the location of the hidden rat while ignoring empty tubes or tubes containing bedding only. Courses increase in complexity as teams advance through the different levels of the sport.
All rats used in Barn Hunt are safely enclosed, never harmed, and cared for by experienced handlers. Their comfort and welfare are a core component of the sport.
Who Can Participate
Barn Hunt is accessible to dogs of all breeds, sizes, and ages. The sport is designed to build confidence in both dogs and handlers, whether teams are participating for enrichment or training toward competitive titles.
Barn Hunt is especially beneficial for dogs who:
Enjoy using their nose or working independently
Need confidence-building in new environments
Thrive with structured activities and mental stimulation
Benefits of Barn Hunt
Barn Hunt provides:
Enhanced scenting and problem-solving skills
Improved confidence and resilience
Strengthened communication between dog and handler
Opportunities for both recreational and competitive participation
Why Choose Barn Hunt
This sport offers an engaging, instinct-driven experience suitable for newcomers and seasoned dog sport enthusiasts alike. With a focus on safety, ethical animal handling, and thoughtful course design, Barn Hunt provides a rewarding and enriching activity for any dog-and-handler team.
Classes will begin in the spring of 2026.
Basic Manners
This 6 (six) week course will meet every week (click the booking link for specific date and times, address provided upon registration).
This course has fun, easy to follow lessons with simple homework handouts to review during the week. Each week comes with a “challenge” that is both useful in real life, and a great opportunity to train things you might not have thought you could.
Our class focuses on:
• Focus around distractions.
• Down Stays.
• Calm greetings of people and other dogs.
• Recall (coming when called…the first time).
• Loose Leash Walking (when to let them sniff and when they need to focus on you).
• Sit Stay.
As well as learning how to train your dog to be calm and quiet when guests are over, when you’re working from home or at the office, on a zoom meeting and strategies for those neighborhood walks that have been such a challenge!
Prerequisites: Dog must be current on core vaccines. No age limit for dogs. Handlers under 18 must be accompanied by a legal guardian.
Email noseyk9@gmail.com with any questions or click “BOOK” anywhere on this page to sign up today!
This class is outdoor during summer months and indoors when the days get shorter.
Basic Manners II
Basic Manners II is designed for dogs and handlers who have completed an introductory obedience course and are ready to advance their training. This five-week program strengthens foundational behaviors while introducing greater reliability, focus, and practical application in more distracting environments.
Course Overview
Throughout this class, teams will refine essential skills such as sit, down, stay, recall, and loose-leash walking. Emphasis is placed on developing consistency, improving impulse control, and building calm engagement around everyday distractions. Handlers will also learn effective training techniques to support continued progress at home and in public settings.
Skills Developed
Improved loose-leash walking in varied environments
Increased duration and distraction resistance for stays
Strengthened recalls
Polite greeting behavior
Enhanced focus and engagement around people and other dogs
Practical manners for home and community outings
Who Should Enroll
This course is ideal for dogs who have completed a Basic Manners or equivalent foundational obedience program. It is well suited for teams seeking improved reliability, continued skill development, or preparation for more advanced training opportunities.
Class Structure
Duration: 5 weeks
Format: Small-group instruction with individualized coaching
Prerequisite: Successful completion of a foundational Basic Manners class or instructor approval
REACTIVE ROVER
This is a 6 week class for dogs with big feelings based on Leslie McDevitt’s book Control Unleashed Reactive to Relaxed. This class is offered on Sundays and is outdoors in the summer and indoors in during the rainy season. If your dog cannot be redirected with treats or toys when in the same area as other dogs or people, you may need to start with a few private lessons first.
Reactive Rover is a great course for dogs who struggle with hyper-arousal or “big feelings” around other dogs or people or the environment. We use positive reinforcement to redirect their focus and help them learn to feel more comfortable.
Some examples of behaviors we will cover are:
Default behaviors your dog can practice when they aren’t sure what else to do (this helps with attention seeking behaviors such as demand barking, and more)
Focus on you instead of distractions
Pattern games to create relaxation, trust and empower your dog to make better behavioral choices around distractions or triggers
Prerequisites: None, but basic obedience is helpful and ability to eat food in new environments is a must.
Email noseyk9@gmail.com to ask any questions, or simply click “BOOK” anywhere on this page to be taken to the registration form.
Puppy Pre-K
Training puppies is an investment in the future. In this class, we start a foundation for a well balanced dog by thoughtfully socializing them during their critical socialization period. We introduce puppies to a number of novel sights, sounds and smells each week, as well as group play and basic obedience.
We also discuss ways to problem solve common puppy raising hurdles like mouthing, potty training, jumping, and chewing.
Puppy Pre K is best for puppies between 2 and 5 months of age.
This class is open enrollment and meets every Sunday from 11:45am to 12:45pm. Each drop in session is $25. Classes meet from January 26th through March 16th in Eureka.
Puppies must have at least two sets of core vaccines to attend class.
To register click the button below.
Scent Detection Classes
Do you have a nosey canine? Then you’ve come to the right place! In our scent detection classes, you and your dog learn to put their talented noses to work by using positive reinforcement. This course use the target odors of anise, clove, birch and cypress. Your dog will learn a clear, reliable alert to these target odors so that you can compete in AKC and National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW)
Dogs who do best in this course are able to eat food eagerly in public and can be crated or otherwise secured in your vehicle between runs.
This class is great for all levels of trainers, dogs and puppies.
In this course, we have Beginning Scent Detection; Intermediate Scent Detection; and Advanced. Each level runs approximately 1 hour per class.
These classes are ongoing.
Walk With Me!
In this 4 week class you’ll join us on outings in Eureka neighborhoods, and dog friendly businesses when available. Dogs will practice what they’ve learned in Basic Manners while taking their skills to the next level!
This class meets every Sunday at 10:30 and lasts one hour. Dogs must have taken a Basic Manners Class or have a basic understanding of foundation obedience. If you aren’t sure if your dog qualifies, give me a call or hit the “let’s chat” button above..
Click the button above to enroll or email for more information.
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