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,” ...

Organizers slip real rats into tubes with air holes and hide them under the hay. The sport draws breeds of all kinds to ...

The Barn Hunt is a fast-growing dog sport that’s gaining popularity at SchaSam Farm, east of Stanwood. It’s a place where humans and canines have a good time working together. This weekend, more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rats and mice can do a lot of damage in a barn, feed room or tack room. They eat feed and contaminate it, chew on tack, and carry disease. Ways to keep them out include steel wool pushed into ...

John Nixon of Ozark had a rat question for me. It was my first. Nixon, who is 80, recalls a long-ago time when his aunt, who has since passed on, whenever it rained would snatch her rifle and shoot ...