http://philip.greenspun.com/images/20050825-alex-roxanne-mvy/playing-in-airport-grass-6.tcl shows an especially deranged Samoyed. http://philip.greenspun.com/images/20050825-alex-roxanne-mvy/playing-in-airport-grass-7.tcl and http://philip.greenspun.com/images/20050825-alex-roxanne-mvy/playing-in-airport-grass-8.tcl will interest lovers of the breed as well.
We’re off to Montauk, Long Island today in the Cirrus (beach at one end on the runway; restaurant at the other). Westchester County Airport (HPN) tomorrow for a family 50th wedding anniversary.
Doing any wine tasting? I used to work at a vineyard called Pindar (south of Montauk on the north fork). They have a good Bordeaux.
Recommend looking at the full directory of photos, for some more “standard” Samoyed photos.
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Do Samoyeds tend to be hunting dogs?
(Not can they trained to hunt, but rather, if you leave them alone in the yard, are they likely to, say, attack a rabbit or squirrel on their own?)
Based on a small sample of Samoyeds, they don’t attack small mammals and birds, different to other Spitz breeds such as Alaskan Malamutes and Siberian Huskies, which can be very effective hunters. Lizards are a different story. Australia has several lizards in the 30cm (1ft) range that are commonly found in yards, and they don’t survive long with a Samoyed around.
My sammies are fascinated by lizards in the yard. I’m sure they only mean to play with it, but being clumsy they did end up cutting the lizard in half on one occasion, they didn’t eat it though. I also found dead mouse and dead bird in the yard before. I call it when good time went bad. (Sydney, Australia)
No lizards around here, but one of our Brittanys
was fascinated by toads. She would play with it until (I presume) it tasted too bad, and then drop it, but keep trying to pick it up again, and sometimes eventually burying it. Felt sorry for that toad. 🙂
Arctic dogs do tend to be opportunistic predators. Samoyeds are not as aggressive or quick as Huskies but they will chase squirrels, rabbits, prairie dogs, et al. Maybe half of the Samoyeds I’ve met would shake a rodent to death if he or she caught it but the chance of a successful capture by a Samoyed hunting solo is small.