Jumper

Jumper
Background information
Feature films	Old Yeller Savage Sam
Character information
Other names	Old Jumper
Home	Texas
Likes	Corn, Working
Dislikes	Being chased

Jumper is a mule who lives on the Coates farm and a minor character in Old Yeller and Savage Sam.

Role in the film

Jumper serves as the families pack-mule, helping with various work around the farm. When Travis bids farewell to his father, when he leaves to sell their steers on a cattle drive, he is seen riding on Old Jumper. Later on while Travis is using Jumper to help plow in the corn patch, they see Old Yeller chasing a jackrabbit, once Yeller chases the rabbit into the field it spooks Jumper causing him to run. Yeller then begins to chase after Jumper, causing him to wreck the fence (still being hooked up to the plow) as Travis is yelling at the dog to leave his mule alone.

The next day, Travis heads out into the woods with Old Jumper to go deer hunting and Jumper gets spooked by a flock of bobwhites who were nesting in a nearby tree, causing him to throw Travis off his back. Sometime later after getting hog-cut, Kate has Arliss pull a hair out of Jumper's tail that she uses to stitch up Old Yeller's injuries. Several days later, Kate and Lisbeth Searcy use Jumper to help haul in sticks to burn the carcass of one their cows who had caught rabies. Jumper is last scene running away when Old Yeller is fighting a rabid wolf.

In the sequel, Savage Sam Jumper is first scene in the cornfield eating corn, until Arliss shoes him out. Then later while using Jumper to help farm chores, Alriss and Travis see Sam fighting with a bobcat and Alriss quickly mounts Old Jumper as Sam begins to pursue the wild cat. Shortly after Travis and Lisbeth find the three of them, a gang of indians sho have stollen a whole herd of horses finds and kidnaps them.

That night, after one of the Indians feeds the kids horse meat Arliss wonders where Jumper is? Travis thinks he's with the horses, but Arliss doesn't see him and thinks that the Indians butchered him. Travis thinks that Jumper might have gotten away, but Arliss didn't see him get away (nor did he see him get butchered) and refuses to eat any part of his families mule. After Travis and Lisabeth convince him to eat, Alriss begins to talk about how much Jumper helped them and now he's keeping them from starving to death. Later on after returning home they see that Jumpr is alive, Arliss is joyous to see this but at the same time angry with Jumper for being in the corn field once more.

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