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.

Our Fun test will be held October 22.  This is open to all dogs and the dogs DO NOT have to be registered with the Barn Hunt Association to participate.  You can sign up for as many runs and as many classes as you would like.  $15.00 per run.  Runs will be Instinct, Novice, Open, Senior and Masters.  Go to the Barn Hunt Association web site to download the premium list and entry form.  We appreciate pre-entries, but will accept day of entries.

There will be no Barn Hunt practice sessions in September.  We will schedule one practice session on October 14 and will run all levels that day.  Go to Roseland Barn Hunt group on FB for details.

The Fun Test will be the last outside Barn Hunt for the year.  Arrangements are being worked on to do some Novice practice sessions at Petsaver in Webster through the winter season.  Roseland Barn Hunt group will be updated with information.
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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.  Blondie and Sandy did cross over the rainbow rat bridge, but we have acquired more rats for a total of 9 right now. 

The next two events will be October 14 at 1 PM and October 22 at 7:00 AM.  The October event will be an all level practice session.  We will start with instinct and run up to Master.  This will be helpful for people who are planning on attending our Fun Test.  Open to all dogs.  Do not have to be purebred.

October 22 will be our Fun Test.  We will be running all levels from Instinct to Master.  A Fun Test is much like a match where it is a duplicate of how a trial is done.  The Fun Test will finish our qualifications to become a Barn Hunt club and will help the person judging become a Barn Hunt judge.  Open to all dogs.  Do not have to be purebred and do not have to be registered with the Barn Hunt Association.

​The cost is $5.00 per run.  Participants can run as many times as they want in each level and can run multiple levels.

In addition, starting on November 3 and running every other week through the winter, we will be at the Petsaver Store in Webster.  We will be running mostly Novice level.  This will be without hay or straw bales and will give people an opportunity to be active with their dog throughout the winter.  More information will be posted on the Roseland Barn Hunt facebook page.
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Anyone interested in more information and to get on our notification list for Barn Hunt events, go to Roseland Barn Hunt on Facebook and ask to become a member.