Doedijns, Rony

Rony is involved in the Dog World for around forty years now. His own breeds are Finnish Spitz and Tibetan Terrier. When he was 15 years old, he got his first pedigree dog. This was a Finnish Spitz male puppy bred in Holland. He started showing him and he always says that his first Finnish Spitz was responsible for getting him so deep in the Dog World.

During the years he imported several Finnish Spitz from the country-of-origin Finland. He started breeding Finnish Spitz. He owned or bred several Dutch and international champions, FCI European Champions and FCI World Champions in Finnish Spitz. In May 2007 Rony was inaugurated by the Dutch Kennel Club as the third active all-rounder in the Netherlands, allowed to judge all breeds at championship show level. He is the first Dutch judge who completed breed exams in all the 10 FCI groups. He has judged Best in Show and all FCI groups at international level in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2008, he judged BIS at the Dog of the Year show in the Netherlands.

He has judged in most of the European Countries, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America, South Africa, Russia, and USA. For more than 40 years he is a member of SCANDIA the breed club for Scandinavian Spitz breeds in the Netherlands. He is a member of The Kennel Club (England) For many years, he was one of the commentators at the Dutch Winner Show and he did the commentary at the European Dog Show 2011 & 2017. He has judged all the 10 FCI groups in the main ring at the Dutch Winner Show.

He judged Best in Show at the Amsterdam Winner show. One of the biggest Dog shows in the Europe. The board of the Dutch Kennel Club gave him the big honor to be the “Best in Show” judge for the FCI World Dog Show 2018 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. In November 2022 he judged BIS at the Dutch Winner Show in Leeuwarden.

BREED

Australian Kelpie, Beagle, Frisian Water Dog, German Spaniel, Leonberger, Nederlandse Kooikerhondje, Old English Sheepdog, Slovakian Chuvach

FCI Number

104, 142, 145, 16, 161, 221, 293, 314

FCI Group

1, 2, 6, 8

Date(s)

2023.08.23, 2023.08.24, 2023.08.25

Ring

40, 63, 69