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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Barn Hunt complicates the search with two decoy pipes — one with rat litter and one that is empty in an attempt to dupe the dogs. Success depends in part on a dog’s inquisitive nature, Lizzy Glandt of ...

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 ...

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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil companies should try to boost the numbers of barn-owls living in their plantations to tackle a rat problem rather than using snakes or macaques, the ...

(WSVN) - We all know farmers work hard to bring healthy produce to our dinner tables, but the big surprise is who is helping them. In tonight’s special assignment report, the Nightteam’s Kevin Ozebek ...

A naturalist has warned against the use of rat poisons that could kill off the barn owls that prey on them. David Wingate said that anticoagulant poisons that caused internal bleeding in rats had also ...