SIBERIAN LAIKAS

Laika (of Russian) is the generic name for several races of dogs of hunting of the north of Russia and the region of Siberia, between which they are the Laika de Karelia (or Karelo-Finn), the Russian-European Laika and the Laika of Western Siberia, the Laika of Eastern Siberia, the Laika de Yakutia. To this race “Kudryavka” belonged, a street dog of Moscow that properly was trained and it became the first alive being in being sent to the space (1957) in the Russian ship Sputnik 2; which took control famous erroneously of the name of its race: Laika.