Livestock Guardian Dogs take their jobs seriously. Protecting livestock from predators is something many are bred to do, and ...

The sport, in which dogs sniff out live rats in ventilated tubes hidden in hay bales, drew dozens of dogs and their handlers ...

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 ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE — Snout working overtime, Davey Crockett the Doberman Pinscher started sniffing for scents around straw bales stacked into an L-shaped tunnel formation. Target acquired: He quickly located a ...

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,” ...

The miniature Australian shepherd hurtled through the tunnel of hay bales, shuffling nose-first into a pile of straw on the other side in search of her goal: a rat tucked inside a tube, hidden ...