My samoyed is two in December , wherever i take him he still turns peoples heads

Not owned one but have met a few nasty ones, in fact none come to mind that were nice! It was more towards my dog than me. But as with anything owners can impact that! They are beautiful, dogs though.

Have been around Samoyeds's for years. My brother had one, great temperament and disposition. A beautiful dog.

I wish beautiful dogs.

They are gorgeous but wow, the grooming....

lost ours two years ago aged 14 and you're right everyone used to look at him and he was so friendly,still miss having him now

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Friends of mine have two,one male and other female,both adorable and lovely nature,they had puppies about four years ago they were gorgeous. Alas they have both been 'done' now!

When I was a kid my neighbours used to have a samoyed; she was a brilliant dog. Unfortunately they didn't give her the amount of care that the breed needs. They didn't exactly neglect her, she was always fed and had somewhere warm to sleep but I was the only person who ever played with her or took her for walks.

Every morning she would be sat on my doorstep waiting for me to come out to play; if I didn't have school then I'd spend all day out with her and if I did then she'd just wait on the step until I got back. She ended up getting so bored in the day that she would catch the bus to town for something to do. She'd get on outside the house, get off at the bus station, have a wander around for a bit and then somehow manage to get the right bus home again. The drivers would stop for her outside the house whether or not people wanted to get on or off.

Rather than groom her properly they would just give her a short back and sides every few months after which she would just sit there feeling sorry for herself until her hair grew back. One freezing cold winter night they gave her a bath and sent her straight outside; she came scratching at my door frozen solid and looking like a big, spikey snowball. We brought her in and spent all night warming her up by the fire and towelling her off. She enjoyed herself so much that I'm pretty sure she would have classed it as the best night of her life.

Eventually the neighbours realised that they couldn't look after her properly and decided to give her away. They offered her to us first (without my knowledge) but my mother told them that we didn't have enough room - a four bedroom, two living room house and we didn't have enough room. Ok there were six of us living there at the time but that's beside the point. I still haven't forgiven my mother for that; the first I knew of it was when I came home from school one day and she wasn't there. Apparently she was sold to some people who put her into shows where she won a lot.

I'm sure it was a happy ending for her but really I think she would have preferred living out her days roughhousing with me in the back garden. I bloody loved that dog.

Old thread I know but never noticed it before so giving it a bump.

I have a samoyed, a 7 year old bitch called Lucy. She's very popular wherever she goes.

I believe the DS member with the highest post count also owns a sam.

^ Yep and the bugger's just woke me up for her early morning walk! Lily is just coming up to 6 now, how time flies.

That was an interesting story from Finny Skeleta, the dog catching the bus bit did make me laugh.

I hope no one is put off Samoyeds by bazaar1's encounters.
Mine was as soft, friendly and well behaved as a dog could be, to people and dogs.She didn't show any aggression at all in 13 years.
She died just over a year ago and I still miss her
I have a chow puppy now and I actually get stopped by strangers even more than when I walked my sammi.
He will never be as beautiful as my sammi though

Mine can be a bit stroppy at times. She had closed pyometra a couple of years ago and now has a long scar on her stomach so is a bit wary of small dogs sniffing about underneath her.

I sometimes think people are a bit wary because she is quite vocal. Mine loves barking for no reason when on a walk occasionally. I think they all love the sound of their own voice.

When I was at school I worked weekends and holidays in my neighbours boarding kennel. I went one morning to clean out the small kennel block that housed the small dogs and did my usual putting all my gear in and bolting myself in so no dogs could escape. I turned the corner and shat myself cos I thought there was a polar bear there.

It was actually a regular customer, a samoyed with the same name as me. The kennel owners had put her in there to play a trick in me and make me jump....that worked well! She was a lovely dog and I would spend loads of timd grooming her when I finished before I went home.

I don't think I meant to put people off! It was a while ago thou! I think good owners socialise them well, but bad owners don't research the breed and realise the difficulties they have with poor socialisation, as per other fluffy/block colour dogs.

There are two where I walk my dogs, I blame the owner they are both flaming nuisances, the male won't leave my girls alone and the owner does nothing to stop it, I usually end up having to pick Betty up so she doesn't get hurt and yelling at her dog to get away from Mollie. Makes for a stressful walk as it repeatedly comes back to us everytime the idiot lets it off lead ! The female is quite nasty and has bitten a couple of cyclists.

I had one as a kid, we kind of grew up together, a sweet fella, I was disabled so I'd walk him with the pedal go-cart I had or on foot, I'd always let him off the lead at a certain point in the walk, he'd go do his thing, depending on how energetic I felt depend on the size of walk he'd get.

He'd always stop at the normal turn back point if I kept going as in a longer walk, I'd get the "Are you sure" face before he'd take off again.

There was occasions where I'd land on the deck on the walk round , he'd react by looking round and running back and literally him standing over the top of me, it was a quite a job sometime persuading him that it was ok to let strangers scrape me off the ground.

He wasn't entirely blameless, he'd get excited sometimes if he saw someone we knew and I was holding him with a lead, he'd forget about that bit, and yank me over.

Every day I'd come out of school and see him at the gate, more often than not he'd come himself.

I wasn't popular at bath or wash times I'd end up just as soaked as he was, he'd shake the water off. We fell out at those points.

Trips the seaside he'd go absolutely mental, he'd behave like a excited puppy despite being a age where he should have known better

We got him when I was just 4, , he died of cancer when I hit 19. My first experience of death at the that point, a very difficult and painful one.

We used to have a Keeshond and her daughter, a Keeshond/Lab cross, and we used to get stopped all the time, mainly people asking if they were Samoyeds.

We got the dogs under awful circumstances. My mum worked for an animal sanctuary, and, I can't recall the circumstances that led to it but, her and the manager ended up at a house where some dogs and pups were being kept in awful conditions. I won't go in too much detail, as I'm sure you wouldn't want to hear it, but they called the police to get access to the dogs. What was to become our old girl had originally come from fantastic show stock but when found her hair was so overgrown and caked in filth they couldn't tell what end of her was which. It didn't help that she was so, for want of a better word, 'damaged' she walked backwards.

She would have been difficult to re-home due to her terrible start in life but mum took her and one of her pups and gave them a great life. It wasn't easy for the old girl as she'd never learned to be a dog or enjoy life but mum put her life on hold for years to care for her. Sounds a bit bleurgh but I'm really proud of her for that. Absolutely beautiful dogs - both Keeshonds and Samoyeds. I know this is an old thread and I've gone off on a tangent - sorry! - but it reminded me of our 2 girls.