The Alaskan Malamute is often mistaken for a husky, but they are larger than most other "Spitz" type dogs, and that includes the husky. Malamutes are heavy, well-built dogs originally bred by the Mahlemuts, an Inuit tribe, to pull heavy sleds through the snow in some of the harshest conditions of the Arctic in western Alaska.
Read our Alaskan Malamute Buying Advice page for information on this dog breed.