The real Samoyed, is not as old a breed as the Malamute, the Sam. is a pure bred white wolf, where the Malamute has both wolf and dog in it.
Both are excellent dogs to own.
They are beautiful, faithful, protective and good to live with.
I laughed at the people who thought we had them for protection, for they would have loved you to death and did fine with a house full of small kids.
You might say that they guarded the place, we added a male to the family a year after we got Snowball.
Snowball and Frosty, did their guarding from the front seat of our dunebuggy, for they wanted to be sure that it did not move without them in it.
We had to replace the front seat several times, they flat wore it out.