Malamute

It is the race of greater size between all the Nordics: a powerful dog of sleigh, very spread in the United States and Canada. Intelligent, docile and affectionate faithful and, acquires an almost morboso affection towards his master, although this one is a common characteristic to all the races of sleigh. It is a very clean dog that practically lacks scents and, in spite of his stature, can even live within the house not forgetting nevertheless, that it must have ample spaces where to move freely.
The origin of almost all the Nordic races, is in the old boreal wolf and the ?Dog of the peat bogs?.
The first appearance of these excellent aids of the man goes back to almost two millenia, taking its name from the diverse tribes of polar towns with which they lived. They were therefore ?mahlemutes? who gave the name to this race, that was developed specially in Alaska. By their force and power, the Malamutes of Alaska, took part in numerous polar expeditions (as much in the boreal hemisphere as in the austral one), throwing of the sleigh with enormous loads, crossing great distances. A unit of this race appears like protagonist, in extraordinary companies, also in novels of Jack London and stories of Rudyard Kipling. Taken to the United States by the polar explorers, they were immediately a remarkable successful, until the point to spread very quickly. Successively, they were also known in Europe, where they found immediately a great welcome on the part of many enthusiastic ones which they raise it with great care and it is not difficult to see it winning absolute of all the races, in the more important canine exhibitions.

The Malamute of Alaska is a powerful dog, of optimal construction, solid and fort. Its powerful structure, allows him to throw of the sleigh with great weights throughout interminable passages. Therefore, those thin units must discard, with little solid back or that lack a suitable musculatura. One moves with great arrogance, taking the head raised and the tail slightly coiled on the back. Of great importance it is his layer, provided with abundant hair and tightened and woolly, oily subhair to the tact and so closed that it does not let see the skin: with such protection, this dog lives perfectly outdoors with very low temperatures, where it can cover distances between 70 and 90 daily km (it calculates that in the course of a long polar winter, it is in conditions of crosses more than 15,000 km) Replaced partially by sophisticated mechanical equipment, continues making, nevertheless these activities, mainly in races of sleighs that in the United States and Canada very numerous and are followed with alive nourished interest by public of enthusiastic and also of connoisseurs.

Height and weight. Raised to the optimal cross: males 63.5 cm., females 58.5 cm. Weight: males 38.5 kg, females 34 kg.

Head. Wide and powerful. Black Trufa. Fine lips. Wide and massive snout, that diminishes slightly in width towards trufa. Wide and slightly convex skull between the ears and that is sharpened towards the eyes, cleared to the height of the cheeks. Weigh frontal furrow.

Eyes. Brown, almendrados, locating oblique on the skull.

Ears. Small in proportion to the skull. Triangular superior half but with the end slightly cleared. Distanced well and implanted in the later end of the skull.

Neck. Hard and moderately been nauseated.

Previous extremities. Almost vertical views of side, muscular forts of bones and. Shoulders of average angulación.

Body. Deep and vigorous chest. Robust trunk but not too short. Straight back, slightly fallen of shoulders to the thighs. Muscular flanks.

Later extremities. Wide, strong and exceptionally muscular thighs. Legs moderately anguladas. Wide and heavy Corvejón, slightly folded. They can have spurs that must be amputated.

Feet. Wide and compact with tight and bent fingers. Heavy and solid plantar pads. Strong and short nails. A protective coating of hair between the fingers exists.

Tail. It inserts on the line of the spine. When it is in rest the dog takes it on the back.

Coat. Abundant hair outer extremely and tightened, not very long and quite rough. More length on the neck, where it forms a tight necklace and on the tail. Very tight, woolly and oily Subpelo to the tact. Fall of the hair in summer, station in which the coat is shorter. Color: of the clear gray to the black, with white spots on the snout, the extremities and in the inferior part of the body.

FEEDING. 1,950 the nutritional necessities are from 1,850 to Kcal. daily when work not to throw of the sleigh is animals submissive the rigors of the polar climate nor the duro. In the environmental conditions in which the Malamute lives normally on Alaska, 4,000 the nutritional exigencies rise from 3,000 to Kcal. daily. They are dogs that they support without problems and during long time, great physical efforts. The bred climate units temperings that are not destined to the work, must have an feeding nonsuperior to 2,000 Kcal. daily not to incur disfunciones like the obesity or the dermatitis, of nutritional origin.

THE FIRST MONTHS. The Malamute of Alaska, like the other Nordic dogs, is not considered descending of the chacal, from which most comes the dogs, but of the wolf. In addition to the wolf blood, it conserves of this one, a certain form of behavior: in effect, whereas the descendants of the chacal transfiguran in the master to the ancestor, those who have their origins in the wolf, see in that one the head of the herd and therefore one of their resemblances. One has settled down (on the part of students in etología like Konrad Lorenz) that, in the lúpidos ones, the moment at which the dog encariña by all its life with the master, is around the fifth month: one takes place what in technical terms ?imprinting? is denominated. He is important then, that during that period, a relation continued (like the game, the cares, the food) between dog and master settles down.

DAILY CARES. The care of the coat and the skin, consists of daily cepillado that allows to air the tight subhair and to eliminate vegetal and cellular rest, as well as in respecting a precise diet and maintaining the perrera in optimal conditions of hygiene.

WITH THE VETERINARIAN. The spurs of the later extremities must be amputated immediately after the birth.

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