I am Rudy Smits from The Netherlands, born in 1970 and I grew up in a family where my mum bred boxers. In 1980 the family got a basset hound and from 1993 many basset hound litters were bred, co-owned by me and my mother. Many 'Van Grunsven champions' live all over the world now. I am a judge of all breeds of FCI group 6.