There is a few different rat stuffs. "Barn Hunt" and "Rats! Canada" has rats in tubes hidden among bales and the dog has to locate the tube with a rat and give some type of alert to indicate this is the tube with a rat in it. There are tubes with only litter, and empty tubes to serve as distractors. The higher the levels, the rats and distractor tubes. There are "games" that you play where you try to find many rats in a specified time.

The trial I am entered in this weekend is Nasda...I have never seen one personally from this group, but I suspect its going to be quite similar.

The class that I went to was only 4 weeks so ..not sure how this is going to go ?

We have only a few inches of snow right now, but we are in a storm watch right now. Supposed to get something like 6 inches today and a few more tomorrow. And the temperature is dropping significantly today and into the weekend. OF course, because I need to travel over 2 hours each way for 2 days to go to this trial.