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Samoyed history
The Samoyeds who comes from the northern part of Russia
between the Ural Mountains and the river Jenisej belonged to
nomadic people who used the dogs to guard their reindeers and
sometimes to lead their sledges.
They called the dogs Bjelkier which means "white dogs who have
white puppies".
In Russia they have also been called Nenetsky dogs after the
Nenetsky people who lived close to the Arctic Circle. In our
part of the world the dogs have been named after the tribe
called The Samoyeds. However there is no guarantee for the dog
we know as the Samoyed today comes from the original Samoyed
region.
The nomadic people were very primitive. They lived in tents and
migrated from place to place searching for moss which the
reindeers fed on. It was a hard life especially in the winter
season. The dogs went in and out of the tents as they pleased
and at nights they slept as closely as possible to their people.
People and dogs were depended on each other and lived in close
contact with nature. Today the original life of these nomadic
people has been changed by the industrialism.
On his first expedition to the North Pole in 1893 Fridtjof
Nansen used Samoyeds as draught animals. He had fetched the dogs
at Alexander Trondheim in Tobolsk. Trondheim had bought the dogs
at the nomadic people. And a good price was to be paid for the
best dogs. Also Roald Amundsen, the first man on the South Pole,
used Samoyeds on his expeditions. One might read about it in his
narrative regarding the Northeast-passage among others.
Others have used Samoyeds as draught animals. At one time the
polar expeditions were dissolved and the dogs left around. Some
came to England. Among others the english family Kilbourn Scott
took some of these expedition dogs to his home and used them in
the breeding.
They found one of them in a zoo in Sidney in Australia. It was
the male Antarctic Buck. He and others of both sex became the
foundation to the Samoyeds we have today.
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