I had a Samoyed growing up...great dog!! We lived near Sodus Bay back then, we did breed her once and she had a litter of puppies. Wonder if yours are related? My dogs name was "Princess Nera of Ira".
These 2 are from Vermont-Samtasia Samoyeds. Our 1st was from Hilton though, in 1987, she lasted 16 yrs. The Duchess.
As you can see, they are awesome with kids. They obey hand signals from my 8 yr old neice as though it was me. Except for the occasional sneaker chew, I wouldn't trade them for the world.
The female, I actually owe my life to: she woke me up about 2am one day last winter, my computers power supply was burning, the smoke was coming out of it, the smoke detector never went off. She was practically chewing my arm to get up, when I realized what was going on, I went outside with the computer, she was hot on my heels barking at that tower.
I fed her salmon for about 6 weeks, every day. I owe her, BIG TIME.