Roya was originally imported as a potential explosives detection dog, but that career was not well chosen (as amped as she is, she would have been a single-use dog!) and she found herself offered for sale again. I saw her and fell in love.

Roya earned her BH in the fall of 2002 and her SchH "A" in the spring of 2003.  She is extremely fast and agile, and eager to learn.  

Her hips are OFA Excellent and elbows are free of dysplasia.  She also has a PennHIP score of .33/.33, reference # 845685. The evaluation was done on 6/30/2004 and of the 20 dutch shepherds presently in the database, whose median is .52, her results place her in the 90th percentile.  Her greatest fault is that she is a terrific climber and is difficult to keep in a kennel, even a covered one.  Unfortunately, her attempts at freedom resulted in tooth damage, ending her protection career.

She lives to work but in the house she is my little "bed bug".  Roya is incredibly clever and quickly learned to open the doors.  I didn't realize she had become a mentor until I caught one of the cats standing on her hind legs and trying to press down on the lever handle on the door, just as she had seen Roya do!  Roya adores the house cats and is sociable with other dogs. I can count on Roya to teach manners to new puppies in the household, being gentle but firm.

Roya is also the ultimate momma.  She not only cares for her own pups, but will offer herself to the pointer pups (ouch! they have teeth!!) or even visitors!  We "guested" a young singleton pup named Lance, who happens to be a Shiba Inu.  Lance needed to learn how to play with other puppies and so he came over to spend the afternoon.  Since it was lunchtime, well.............. this reminds me of the photo captioned "One of these is not like the other"

Roya is a terrific worker with an incredibly stable temperament.  She remains very fast and agile, and I often use her to teach new handlers/helpers how to play with and "catch" dogs safely.