GMPR, SHR Black Ice's Super Sonic Scooter MH

Scooter was an amazing talent from the start. He was pointing birds before he turned 7 weeks of age. Scooter was gun broke 11 weeks of age. Before he turned 3 months old he had pointed and retrieved to hand well over 100 shot quail. Scooter passed his first HRC Hunt Test at the young age of just 4 months.That’s right! Scooter passed his first 4 Hunt Tests in a row and received his first Hunt Test Title “SHR” at just 5 months of age. Scooter also passed his CP APLA Hunt Test at this same young age before mov­ing on to his AKC Junior Hunt Tests. Scooter passed 4 AKC Junior Hunt Test in as many week­ends and he earned his AKC JH Test Title before he turned 7 months of age. Scooter passed 9 Hunt Tests in the spring of 2009 across the H.R.C, A.P.L.A. & A.K.C. all at the very young age of just 6 months!

Scooter’s young suc­cess con­tin­ued in 2009 … as he earned the “Advanced Point­ing Retriever” APLA title while being per­fectly steady to wing & shot. Although being steady to wing and shot is not required for the “APR” title, Scooter at just 10 months of age received tons of praise as he amazed the spec­ta­tors and judges alike. Then in an attempt to build on Scooter’s early suc­cess A very hard deci­sion to send Scooter South for the win­ter was made, so he could con­tinue his progress on water blinds. After all, the win­ters in Texas are usu­ally warmer than those in the Mid­west. So Scooter moved to Texas and entered the train­ing pro­gram of Rusty Haglund and Bob­bie Purser of Trig­ger Time Ken­nels & Web Foot Ken­nels respec­tively.

By the time Scooter turned 12 months of age he had earned the right to be on Bobbie’s trailer which is only filled with dogs that can do AKC Mas­ter Hunter work. “It’s hard to believe that a 12 month old pup can run mark for mark, blind for blind with AKC MH titled dogs. But Scooter can, and does every day.  Scooter under Bobbie’s car­ing hand earns his first AKC Senior Hunt pass at the young age of 15 months. Scooter was only one of 8 dogs of 55 that past this test in Iola, TX and was by far the youngest dog in the entire field. But being the youngest dog at a hunt test was noth­ing new for Scooter.
March of 2010 turned out to be a great month for Scooter as he went on and passed 3 AKC SH tests. Scooter went 4 for 4 under Bob­bie as he earned his AKC SH title in April of 2010.
Less than 5 weeks later Scooter being the youngest dog in a field of 52 dogs in Laver­gene, TN passes his first AKC MH Test. Scooter was one of just 15 dogs out of 52 to pass this test. Three weeks later in Vir­ginia, MN Scooter was just 1 of 12 dogs to pass this very chal­leng­ing MH test and as usual was the youngest dog to pass.
Scoot­ers suc­cess con­tin­ued that sum­mer and he earned the cov­eted AKC Mas­ter Hunt title at the young age of 21 months of age. He was just one of two dogs that day to run the entire test with­out a handle.

Health and Certifications

Hips: OFA Excellent

Elbows: OFA Normal

Cerf Normal

EIC: Clear