After discussion of prices on Laikas during the pre-WWII period, when Laika had pure working dog significance and were valued depending on what kind of game it hunted the most, I will discuss the post-WWII period.

In the process of breeding dogs, cynologists must decide what valuable qualities any particular dog should have to contribute into the breed. There are sufficient differences between methods of evaluation of hunting dogs by FCI and RCF. One major difference is in the fact that Russian cynologists base their judgment results of complex rating of dogs called bonitation (bonitirovka in Russian). The purpose of this article is to familiarize foreign dog breeders with rules of bonitation used in Russia for purebred dog breeding.

To reveal the «Africanis» in this long standing and renowned «breed» column is not less than a challenge. It has to be stressed from the onset that the Africanis is NOT a breed as it is currently understood by eurocentric canine fanciers. The phenomenon «Africanis» must be apprehended as a «land race». It is a product of natural selection and spontaneous adaptation to typical but various African environments and to the utilitarian demands of the historical custodians of such dogs.

To write a history of the Samoyed dog one has to consider that the live and tasks of the aboriginal Samoyed dogs, the dogs living with the Samoyed peoples, differ considerably with that of the Samoyed dogs now living in the Western civilized world. The modern Samoyed dogs have, thanks to the ever increasing demand to score on dog shows, even undergone a considerable change in exterior compared to the aboriginal Samoyed dogs.