Oct 4, 2025  Animal Arena 1888 Carter St. Paul, MN

I have secured the Animal Arena at the University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus. Saturday looks to be nice and this space is silly enough to provide novel sniffing.

For this month I am planning to focus on exterior spaces for searching and will set up some nice outside searches.

No  search will have more than 3 hides and I will make sure I am setting up single hide searches for beginner dogs.

It is a small arena that also includes a classroom, two restrooms, bleachers, and a flat observation area.  There is exterior space as well for searching.  The floor of the largest space, the arena – is wood chips and I will bring my car inside for a vehicle search.

You can pick up to four searches in your 15 minutes time  – below are the searches I will set up –

• 2 exterior search options
•      One large NW3 type space
•      One smaller single hide search
• 2 container searches
•      NW1 Container Search
•      Larger  Container Search – with distractions
• 2 interior searches
• A single vehicle – vehicle search, designed for beginning nose work teams
• $20 per team – cash, check or PayPal/Venmo