Our Instructors and Trial Committee love Barn Hunt and want to share our love of the sport in a manner that is fun for both the dog and the dog’s teammate (that would be the human working with the dog). Learning how to work together, have fun and build on the dog’s natural instinct to hunt is our goal.

How The Red Barn came into existence

Waiting for our turn, a friend, Nell Jenkins, and I were sitting in her car, trying to stay warm at a trial where the straw was stored in a covered building outside the ring and the rats lived in another building on the property, an idea was hatched. It dawned on us that having Barn Hunt in the same location where the straw and rats were located made a lot more sense than transporting those 2 essential items for any Barn Hunt event across town to our Obedience Club’s building. I decided to build a place on my 2 plus acres where we could practice, hold classes and trials and the straw could be kept in the building. Eight months later, in July 2023, the building was complete, Heat and AIr was working, the Rats were moved from my house to a building I call the Rat Shack several feet away from the facility. By September Nell, and another friend, Joanne McDonald and myself were teaching our first classes. Under the name of the Obedience Club’s Barn Hunt group, Shadow Dog Sports Barn Hunt, we had our first trial in December 2023.

Since that time several things have evolved. We wanted to do things following the philosophies of the Barn Hunt Association and with their permission changed our name to The Red Barn, a third Mini-Split unit has been added to the building, students developed to the point we switched from Introduction to Barn Hunt classes to private lessons to met the individual levels teams are working on and the Barn Hunt Trial Committee has expanded to 15 people dedicated to Barn Hunt people who work together to run four regular trials a year plus we will be hosting our 4th Region 3 Barn Hunt Event in March of 2026.

To accommodate peoples scheduled I teach Private and Semi-Private Lessons from 10AM-8PM, seven days a week.

Keeping track of lessons and letting more people know about lessons brought me to create this website.

If you have never seen a Barn Hunt Trial, I suggest you go on YouTube and type in Barn Hunt Trials. That way you will know what a fun team sport you can enjoy together. It is a team sport where your dog is the leader, they are team member with the best nose but the human half of the team plays an equally important part.