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Lapponian Herder
origin: Finland · 7 figures in the corpus · Q38362
Every figure below carries this breed's name or id in its source study -- grouped by what it measures, not ranked. A breed appearing under a study here does not mean every other breed was tested and came back negative; it means this is what has a named source so far. See each figure's own page for its caveats.
Size & head shape
Lapponian Herder: body size class -- Medium
- Body size and cephalic index classification per Supplementary Table S5; for breeds absent from the study's primary source lists, assigned by majority agreement among Dogs Trust canine-behaviour experts rather than measured directly on dogs.
Lapponian Herder: head-shape (cephalic index) classification -- Mesocephalic
- Body size and cephalic index classification per Supplementary Table S5; for breeds absent from the study's primary source lists, assigned by majority agreement among Dogs Trust canine-behaviour experts rather than measured directly on dogs.
Temperament
Lapponian Herder: share of surveyed dogs scored high on the Fear trait (Salonen 2020, Finnish pet dogs)
- Self-selected online convenience sample of Finnish pet owners, not a random sample of the breed or of all dogs.
- Restricted to breeds with at least 50 surveyed dogs to avoid small-sample noise.
Lapponian Herder: share of surveyed dogs scored high on the Noise sensitivity trait (Salonen 2020, Finnish pet dogs)
- Self-selected online convenience sample of Finnish pet owners, not a random sample of the breed or of all dogs.
- Restricted to breeds with at least 50 surveyed dogs to avoid small-sample noise.
Other
Lapponian Herder: purpose class 'sled/draught', from FCI group: Spitz and primitive types
- Registry group membership at time of the source table, not an independent behavioural assessment.
Lapponian Herder (Lapinporokoira): Finnish Kennel Club registrations, 2025, rank #35