For me, Ronja is the most gorgeous dog on earth of course ;). She is very eager to please, extremely fast, loves to work, very realible when working. She is great with kids (I have 2 boys) and people in general. She is one very happy flat-coat!

Critiques:

Good head, good eye color for liver. Exellent neck, good topline, good conformation, good coat quality, good angulations, moves very nicely. Very nicely shown.
Inge E:son Thor, Sweden

Big bitch but very feminine, feminine head, outstanding neck, little out of coat today, very good angulations, very good body, very good bones, moves well and nicely. Nicely shown.
Ewa Nielsen, Sweden

Exellent type, elegant bitch with good head, beautiful neck and topline. Correct depth of rib ja good body. Excellent angulations of hind legs. Good bones. Beautiful, long side movements, good liver color. Today not enoug coat.
Kirsi Nieminen, Finland

Piia asked me to write down some of my thoughts about her dog "Ronja" ; of course I feel honored for her trust.

First some observations about Ronja' s physical appearance :

• Ronja is a relatively large and strong bitch .
• She is very fast and durable in the meaning that she can go on and on forever as it looks.
• Still she is a beautiful dog that pleases your eye and she will probably have a show-career in the future (though she might have some more coat to please certain show judges).

This passion to work in combination that Piia didn't have the experience nor knowledge in retriever training had lead to that she was very vocal (to my personal taste) when we first met. Especially it was so when she was supposed to honor another dog's work. After systematic training has that defect diminished and almost vanished.

Ronja has a strong desire to please, which means that her trainability is good and she learns new things very fast, but she needs consistency in training (who doesn't ?) so she will not forget as soon as well.

Meanwhile Ronja gets proper training I suppose that she'll learn to relax better between the tasks and thereby she will improve her ability to concentrate on the actual task at hand. And when she does . . . she will have a future in the Finnish Hunt Tests as well. Of course supposed again that Piia has ability to do her homework and develop as a handler along with her dog.

Ronja has enormous enthusiasm to fetch. She is fast, on land and in water. She doesn't seem to have a problem with the game. One big plus I would give her for not being moody, when working. So you can basically count on her reliability by 100% when you ask her to do something.