Daniel, your initial post is funny to me because Spuuky loves samoyeds and they are his dream dog! Whenever we are driving/walking around somewhere and he sees any sort of big fluffy dog he gets all excited and wants to go hug them.
When I was a little kid I had a rottweiler/doberman cross puppy and it was lovely, very friendly and a bit mischievous. I remember it as one of the few times in my life where I would be excited to come home after school, because it would be waiting for me. My neighbours seemed to have the same sort of terrible, ignorant bias against it as many people seem to have against "violent" dogs, so in the interest of "their children", they poisoned my puppy (which wasn't even outside a lot of the time) and it died. I miss my dog.
We typically like quiet dogs that don't have much of an odor. I like whippets, as they are quiet and like exercise, but aren't necessarily excitable or aggressive. The other day I met a couple of jindo dogs and they were very lucky, I feel happy thinking about patting them.
We aren't really in a position to get any sort of pet right now, but if we were looking into a dog, I think it would have to be a samoyed, rottweiler or jindo
