"At the turn of the century sled-dog racing became popular in Alaska. If there was one activity for which the malamute was not ideally suited, racing was it. The powerful, heavy-boned malamute was capable of pulling great weights fro great lengths, but it wasn't built for acceleration or speed. For this and for other expedient reason's malamutes were breed with variety of lighter, faster dogs"and purebreds were almost lost." We should observe that purebred did not mean then with it means today. Eskimos did not keep stud books, nor did the Mahlemuts have signs posted by their dwellings that read, "stud service to approved,registered bitches only." Indeed, bitches in heat were sometimes staked out for wolves to breed, wrote one historian.,"and the toughness and adaptability of the malamute stock was replenished." The notion that there were "purebred " malamutes in Alaskan during the last century or the early year of present on is a quaint, but imprecise, fantasy." http://www.petpublishing.com/dogken/breeds/malamutes .html |
History
| "This is he sled dog of stamina and strength rather than speed. It gets is name from the malamute tribe, an Inuit people of northwestern Alaska, these nomadic Eskimos used the dogs to haul their possessions between camps. The breed type was stabilized in the 1920's and accepted for showing in the American Kennel Club in 1935. After that it gained immense recognition because of it's use as a war dog." http://www.dog.com/breed/alaskan-Malamute. asp |
| "The most celebrated of all Eskimo dogs was the malamute, a type bred by Mahlemut tribe, which lived near Kotzebue Sound on the northwest coast of Alaska. (Kotzebue, ironically, was a German opera librettist and playwright noted for his superficial and often sensational melodramas and comedies.) "The Mahlemuts' dogs, according to one observer were less"wild and more tractable than other arctic strains, and were capable of a variety of tasks from pulling sledges to hunting seals to chasing down polar bears. |
| Such was the prowess of the malamute that Eskimos who lived inland traveled down the Kobuk and Noatak river to Kotzebue Sound to trade furs for dogs and supplies. Thus did malamutes find their way to other regions of Alaskan and even to adjacement parts of the Yukon, where they gold diggers and some of the dogs that had accompanied them to the Yukon made the malamute' acquaintance 100 yrs ago. ( Additional testimony to the malamutes hegemaon was the use of the word malemutes to indicate any freight-pulling dogs." http://www.petpublishing.com/dogken/breed s/malamutes. |
| Malamutes were further distinguished their strength, reliability, wide-ranging of colors and unique marking. Their ancestors are thought to have migrated from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering land bridge in the company of nomadic tribes. More than twice the size of Texas, the Bering land bridge connected Siberia and Alaskan until rising seas dumped 800 feet of water over it 11,000 years ago, when summer temperature in that part of the world were sight to 11 degrees warmer than they are now. |
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