Dogs
East Siberian Laika
Other names: Young dog, East Siberian Laika, Zapadno-Sibirskaïa Laïka
- Origin
- Russia
- Size
- Large
- Height · Male
- 52–58 cm
- Height · Female
- 48–56 cm
- Weight · Male
- 20–23 kg
- Weight · Female
- 18–21 kg
- Life expectancy
- 11–13 years
- FCI
- FCI group 5 · 5 · n.º 304
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Temperament
Steady, evenly-tempered, with very well developed sense of scent and detection of game.
History
This is a Russian breed of hunting dogs from the European forest areas of Russia. The first record about northern ear-pointed dogs was published by A. A. Shirinsky-Shikhmatov in the ?Album of northern sledge dogs-laikas? in 1895. The dogs mentioned therein were named Cheremis and Zyrianskiy Laikas. The breed was limited to the regions of Komi, Udmurtia, Arkhangelsk, Yaroslavl, Tver, Moscow and some other areas of Russia.
In 1947 the off-spring of Arkhangelsk, Komi, Karelia, Votiatsk and other Laikas were united into one breed under the modern name of: ? Russian-European Laika.
The breed standard for Russian-European Laika as a purebred dog was approved in 1952.
The correct modern type of Russian-European Laika, as a recognized purebred dog, was not achieved by breeding different Laikas off-spring; it is the result of selective breeding over a long period of time
East Siberian Laika breeders
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