Iljas was a dog that impressed everyone. He was very elegant and masculine, he had also excellent parallel head, excellent body and structure. Iljas also had a strong Belgian Shepherd character. The character test judges said that I could jump the hot-dog stand queue with Iljas with no worries..

You can own a dog like Iljas only once in your life. I would have like have had Iljas with me for a few years longer, but it wasn't meant to be. In autum 2004 Iljas was diagnosed of having several tumours. The vet refused to operate because there were so many metastases.

Fortunately many of Iljas's features and manners are found in Ilja's many children and grandchildren, it has been a pleasure to follow their lives.

Pauline Stern-Haf's judging of Iljas's progeny class in the 2002 Finnish Specialty:
"Definitely an excellent and beautiful group along their father. He has passed on his beautiful long head. Excellent as a whole. All have good and long legs, like their father. Ears carried excellently. All these dogs are of great quality, and you can see that he has clearly produced excellent dogs .
-Anne