The club has become involved in a new dog sport, Barn Hunt.
Our application to become a Barn Hunt club with the Barn Hunt Association has been approved.  To finish our application, we will be running a Barn Hunt Fun Test in the fall.

Practices for July:  Friday July 7 and July 21, 7:00 PM.  These are Open Level practice sessions.  $5.00 for 4 runs.  No instinct testing.  Intro to rat can be done.    Saturday July 8 and July 22, 8:00 AM.  These are Novice Level practice sessions.  $5.00 for 4 runs.  Intro to rat and instinct testing are free.

A special practice session will be held on Friday, July 14 at 6:30 PM.  This will be a self-directed practice with three different stations; one for Open and Novice tunnel practice, one for climb practice, and one for rat hunt practice.  $5.00 per dog.

To be sure to get notices of Barn Hunt events our club is doing, go to Roseland Barn Hunt group page on Facebook and ask to become a member.

The German Shepherd Club of Rochester will sponsor a Introduction to Barn Hunt Seminar and Rat-N-Go.  The seminar will be begin at 9:00 AM and the Rat-N-Go will begin at 1:30 PM.  The seminar is limited to 15 working spots at $15.00 each.  Audit spots are unlimited and are $5.00 per person.  The Rat-N-Go will be $5.00 per run.  Novice and Open offered. 

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As soon as the winter weather breaks, the club will be offering Barn Hunt practice sessions.  We will have two outdoor rings set up. One ring will be to run Introduction to Rat, Instinct and Novice.  The second ring will be to run Open and higher levels.  There is also an indoor ring, although smaller, that will allow us to have practice sessions when the outdoor areas are wet and/or muddy.

The current plan is to charge $5.00 for 4 runs.  Introduction to Rat and Instinct runs are free.  We started doing practice sessions late last fall and the cost was well received and the practice sessions were well attended.  Information about our practices and other Barn Hunt events will be posted on Facebook under Roseland Barn Hunt.  Anyone interested can go to that page and request to become a member of the page.  Once you are an accepted member, any postings will automatically show up on your Facebook page.  We already have an email list of people who participated last year and will do some mass mailings on events, etc. using the email format too.  And of course practice sessions and other events related to Barn Hunt will be posted here.

April 15 was the first official barn hunt practice session for the season.  We had 5 people with 6 dogs, everyone at the novice level.  As the outdoor ring is still under construction, we ran in the inside barn ring.  Next practice session will be April 29 at noon.  .

Here are pictures of the four rats who will be doing the GVKC Barn Hunt Practices.  They are Sandy, Blondie, Gertie and Trudy.  Sadly, Blondie developed some mammary tumors and died in March.  But we now have two baby girls, Frick and Frack.  All of the rats participated in the April 15 practice session and all took it well into stride.