2025 Summer Barn Hunt Series

If your dog needs help with building drive, indications, independent hunting and management in the ring and blind, this is the workshop for you.

Barn Hunt is a dog driven sport.  Unlike agility where you teach the dog specific skills and then direct them around the course, in barn hunt, the dog is really the one in charge.  As such, the training is very different.  You need to work hard to build drive in your dogs to love and enjoy the sport.  You also need to work quickly and have strong indications.  It's a team sport where we need to watch our dogs and pay attention to what they're telling us. Our dogs need to listen to and trust us in the ring, following our direction to be sure all areas of the ring are covered.

This is a one day workshop: Sat, July 26, 2025

• 9:00am-12:00pm

• Lunch (Bring your own lunch)

• 1:00pm-4:00pm

  
  

Participation levels

• 8 working spots - Handler + Dog

  • Cost $175/team

• 10 audit spots - Handler only

  • Cost $100/handler

Location:

Higher Education Dog Training

715 Bascomb Commercial Pkwy

Woodstock, GA 30189

We are excited to present our instructor Kristy Netzer who is coming to us from Music City Dog Sports in Tennessee.

Kristy started teaching agility classes around 1994.  Her area of specialty was distance handling.  She was a regular writer for Clean Run Magazine and did many editorials, single articles as well as several 12 month series.  One has been converted to an E-Book.  She also did Clean Run instruction DVD in 2011 entitled "Dial Up The Distance," which is still being sold.  She's taught hundreds of students the complex sport of agility. One of her students ran his dog from his wheelchair and was invited to participate in the Incredible Dog Challenge.  She was also an agility coach for World Team member Jean Lavalley.

Kristy started teaching Barn Hunt in 2015, only 1 year after the sport started.  There was a strong learning curve because the sport was so new. She came up with many teaching techniques to help her dog and her students.  She worked with other instructors who had innovative training techniques and learned from them to expand her knowledge of the sport. She is constantly looking for new training techniques, drills and skills to improve her program.  One of Kristy's students won the Grand Championship at Nationals in 2024 and another won the Games Grand Championship.