Outlander Git 'R Done, MH, NA 1, UT 1

All eight puppies in Cooper's litter (Natural Ability breeder's award litter) received a Prize 1 in the NAVHDA Natural Ability test with an average score of 111.3 points. He has four NAVHDA Versatile Champions, five AKC Master Hunters and six NAVHDA Utility Prize 1 dogs in a TWO generation pedigree.

Cooper can be described with one word, biddable. He finished his AKC Master Hunter at 23 months passing six of seven legs in three consecutive weekends. As a testament to his cooperation he passed his last leg handled by a friend who had had never seen a Master Hunter test until he stepped into the field as the first brace of the day. Only two of ten dogs entered that day passed. Cooper earned the maximum 204 points in the NAVHDA Utility test just shy of 26 months old. Simply put, Cooper is a consistent performer.

Even though Cooper missed his first hunting season with a broken toe you'd never know it based on his second year. He hunted blue grouse, sage grouse, both prairie and colombian (mountain) sharptail grouse, both lesser and greater prairie chickens, scaled quail, bobwhite quail, pheasants and ducks. Cooper was as talented a bird finder in his second year as the six year old experienced dogs.

The 2007/2008 hunting season was fantastic. Not only were the bird numbers the best we've ever seen we had 43 days in the field. In six states, we took 29 ducks, 43 pheasants, 88 scaled quail, five bobwhites, two sage grouse, two mountain (columbian) sharptail grouse, a prairie sharptail and a lesser prairie chicken. Cooper alone accounted for over 80% of those finds and retrieves. Sage grouse hunting had Cooper at 300 yards holding point on 40 grouse. He even spent a few 20 degree January days in a Colorado duck blind retrieving ducks from an icy river. Cooper has proven himself to be quite adept at handling running scaled quail, too.

Cooper is an affectionate, personable (entertaining and comical) house dog with a calm demeanor and is great around children and other animals. He is a snappy, stylish dog in the field with a medium range.

Cooper will be running in the 2008 NAVHDA Invitational in Minnesota and will be competing in more NSTRA and AKC field trials. We're also training with the HRC clubs and plan to run in Seasoned tests soon.