Thanksgiving Barn Hunt Trial
Nov
26
to Nov 28

Thanksgiving Barn Hunt Trial

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Join Aiken Barn Hunt for a weekend of Barn Hunting and work off that massive family dinner!

Feel free to use us as an excuse to get away from the in-laws or just go to a place where wearing your most comfortable stretchy pants is just fine!

This will be our first 2 ring trial so come ready to work and earn those fabulous Rattie Bucks that can be used for training, shows, or merchandise!

Now break out of that food coma and lets go HUNTING!

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Beat the Heat Barn Hunt Trial
Jun
11
to Jun 13

Beat the Heat Barn Hunt Trial

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Come join Aiken Barn Hunt for a fun time of rat hunting while we beat the heat through the middle of the day!

We will run Instinct, Novice, and Open in the morning starting at 7am then SIESTA through the HEAT of the day to start back at 5:30 with Crazy8, Senior, and Masters all run under the lights in the barn!

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Frightful Hunt
Oct
2
to Oct 4

Frightful Hunt

Frightful Hunt!

Halloween has come early to Aiken Barn Hunts Training Center! Ghosts and goblins abound around our haunted hunt course… are you brave enough to find the ghost rats? Come with your wildest mask and show those monsters you aren’t scared of them!

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Jul
18
7:00 PM19:00

How Your Dogs Nose Works

This is an educational seminar for Aiken Barn Hunt members in good standing. We offer several of these educational events throughout the year and would love to see you there! If you are interested in learning more about all Aiken Barn Hunt has to offer please go to “Join ABH” and become a member!

Nancy Boyer has a PHd in Educational Psychology in the area of Learning, Development and Instruction. This gives her a strong background in Learning Theory and Positive Reinforcement Training. Over the last 20 years, she has trained and competed her dogs in Tracking, Obedience, Rally, Agility and Herding. While living in New York, Nancy was a member of the Port Chester Obedience Training Club and served as President of the Hudson Valley Tracking Club. Nancy has put AKC TD titles on three of her dogs and is currently training her Rottweiler with hopes she will eventually earn the AKC Champion Tracking Title. In order to expand her knowledge of how dogs work scent, Nancy has studied Variable Surface Tracking with AKC judge Ed Presnall, studied scent work with a k-9 police officer, and volunteered with of the Connecticut Canine SAR team. She has taught AKC tracking classes in NY and now holds tracking classes in Aiken, South Carolina.

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Aiken Barn Hunt FUN TEST! DAY OF SHOW ENTRIES ONLY
Jun
16
8:00 AM08:00

Aiken Barn Hunt FUN TEST! DAY OF SHOW ENTRIES ONLY

Get ready for our first ever FUN MATCH!!!! Our closing date has come and gone. We have almost completely filled the day for our Fun Match. We are reserving a very limited number of runs for our volunteers and members who will be helping us out at the show. Thank you to everyone who got their entry in on time! The show filled faster than I could have imagined! Thank you so much to all the volunteers who stated they would step up to help! If you are interested in working at the show please email aikenbarnhunt@gmail.com

Below is a link to our current run order. Please confirm the information on the order of go for each of your runs. If there are any issues please email aikenbarnhunt@gmail.com as soon as possible. THANK YOU and happy hunting!

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