Hi I know samoyeds are hyper but I was wondering if they are hyper enough for me? I want A dog that will remind me to exercise it and doesn’t lke to lay around all day. i want it to be able to run for miles and I am going to train it to mush, skijore, herd, do agility, and be a therapy dog. I have done a ton of reaserch on the breed and they are perfect. I have a reptable breeder picked out to get the pup from this question just popped into my mind. Thanks and please only answer if you know what your talking about.
Are Samoyeds Hyper Enough For Me?
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I have a good friend who has one, she’s a long distance runner and she will always run out of energy before her Sam does. They do like the cold though if you’re going to be exercising but it sounds like youve done enough research to know that
they are beautiful
I have a husky and he has energy to burn, not a herding dog though. Good luck with the pup
If you have selected a breeder, then that is the person to discuss this with. They are intimately familiar with the breed, and more specifically, with their own bloodline. It is possible within any breed to produce individuals that are not representative of the standard for the breed or of the average member of the breed. You can have lazy Samoyeds.
For herding, if you seriously want to do that, then you need to get a herding dog. It’s not about hyperness. It’s about herding instinct which is bred into them. It’s not bred into Samoyeds. Part of that herding instinct is a strong prey drive, but there is more. For example, when I had my German shepherd tested for herding instinct, he had a natural desire to move the sheep. Not to chase them, not to hunt them. Not to scare them. He just liked moving them.
Remember that if you get a high energy breed you are stuck with their exercise demands for the next decade or more. If you fail to provide that dog the needed exercise, he will become destructive. As in, he will eat your couch, your doors, bark at people, chase cats and cars, etc. It is far better to choose a dog that matches the lifestyle you have naturally than to try to use a dog to change your lifestyle. Lifestyle changes aren’t that easy to execute and you’d be committing to that change for a looooong time. I’d try it out for a year before committing to an active dog. It just isn’t fair to the dog otherwise.