No, the Malamute is a large freighting breed - very powerful but not very fast. The alaskan husky is more properly a type of dog - not very standard in the looks department and completely performance bred. If you look at any of the Iditarod sites you will see alaskans bred for distance racing. Go to http://www.noatak.com and you will see some sprint dogs.
Tiggy2,
Thanks for the link. You're right, they're not really standard in the looks dept.! They don't even look like what I think of as "Huskies". I did a little poking around the site, and have decided that I may try and make it to view one of the races next Winter, up in the Cascades. Looks like it could be interesting to watch.
Tiggy
Just got off site you posted. 1/2 Alaskan, 1/2Saluki Some serious weather issues here. Tyrol looks like a big terier. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> There's nothing nicer to look at than a ugly dog that is great at what he does. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
pretty cool dogs eh?! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> - yes there are a lot of breed influences and now the trend is to infuse GSP and English Pointer bloodlines - the europeans have GSP lines that have been used as ski-jor dogs for years. I don't race I just use my dogs for outfitting,so they are still kind of nondescript but a little more husky loking. Even my siberians are all racing line and you get a lot more colour variations and they are not considered as "pretty" as the more show type dogs. I personally like all the variation - even in Siberians all colours are acceptable- check out http://www.huskycolors.com - neat site if you lke looking at all that coat colour stuff.
OED - yes setter and all kinds of hounds have made their way into the gene pool of alaskans but diversity doesn't mean they are randomly bred-any alaskan breeder likes to talk pedigree at length just as bad as the purebred breeders!
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The Chesapeake Bay Retriever wasn't just formed in the USA, it is a native American Breed. It was called the "bear dog" and found all up and down the east coast from Newfoundland to the Carolinas, and as far west as the Great Lakes. They originally came in browns and black, with a white chest spot.
Drawings of Newfoundlands at the time of the shipwreck which stranded the two dogs purported to be the foundation of the chessy breed, look remarkedly like modern chessies. Matings between those two castaways and local native dogs, of which many were also "bear dogs", would have simply continued the breed as it already was. The only main alteration was the elimination of the black colour.
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