Malamute puppies are just potato-shaped balls of fluff that love to run in the snow. “They’re seriously so floofy they look like they shouldn’t even be able to walk,” says sender-inner Allein S., and indeed they don’t seem to walk so much as bounce. When they’re tired of bouncing they relax on the swing set or hitch a ride on a passing sled. So that makes them sled dogs, sort of.
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Yay! Fuzzy potatoes!
This was the Shameless animal video from CNN’s Good Stuff newsletter last weekend.
The two on the swings kilt me (especially the one swinging away while the other just laid there with his head on the swing) so it took a few days to recover enough to send it.
Splort goes the brain. So much to love here. They kinda remind me of baby seals with legs. And then them sledding. All I could think of was the opening montage to the Banana Splits tv show. And them on the swings, at the 1:30 mark, synchronized butts in motion, with the stripes down their back it was almost hypnotic. The one at the end, is that mom???!!!! Or maybe dad?? Holy mackeral s/he is LARGE!!!
Height:
Female: 22–24 inches (56–61 cm)
Male: 24–26 inches (61–66 cm)
Weight:
Female: 71–84 lbs (32–38 kg)
Male: 79–95 lbs (36–43 kg)
Nope, that’s still a puppy, or at least a not-yet-adult. Adults look like this:
Oh for God’s sake! That’s ridiculous! I realize now I’d never seen Malamute puppies. And then they grow up into fluffers who talk and sing and do star turns.
I’m ded. Better clock out for the day.
Welp, there goes my afternoon. Ain’t gonna get nothin’ done now.
Love you, Mike. So, I’m sorry. Truly. I can’t help it.
These are messed-about-with puppies. They have neither legs nor snouts.
I don’t know how to add (or even if it’s possible to add) links, pics, whatever, but a quick image search for “malamute puppies 6 weeks old” (since the video puppies can’t be younger) will yield what *actual malamute puppies look like.
YES, they’re cute. It’s also wrong. Again, I’m sorry. I must always be on the side of the animal’s best interest. It’s *all* that matters to me.
I looked up Alaska Malamutes, and many of them had legs and snouts, as you say. But others looked exactly like these furry potatoes, sans legs and snouts. Maybe it depends on where they live. Colder regions mean longer floof and shorter external appendages.
I think these dog were designed (sigh) pretty much solely to look cute, both at rest and in motion. Also, the G. Image algorithm yields results that can be imprecise, not to say indiscriminate.
Anyhow, I doubt *shorter legs would be an *advantage in a snowier climate. Real Malamutes are sled dogs, after all.
These floofy potatoes (again, undeniably cute) look like they have Corgi somewhere in their lineage; or are anomalies which have been refined rather than bred *out.
Ya know, I was wondering about that. They don’t look like full-bred Malamute pups to me either. And I share your distaste for unethical, unhealthy breeding.
Do you think the floofy potatoes might be Malamute/Chow Chow mixes?
Thanks for bringing this up. Wow, information on most things (including goats grazing on the side of a dam, thinking back a few years) is available if one keeps digging a little bit, but this one stumps me. You’d think this would be a breeder’s ad and we could trace it back, but the YouTube site is just an animal video collection. A poster there named Quirky Narwhal insists that there’s nothing wrong with the puppies, that Malamute puppies simply look like that (is HE the breeder, defending himself?), but you’ve convinced me otherwise. I find Malamute-Corgi crosses and Malamute-Chow crosses and they don’t look like this — they still have noses and legs. Searching for dwarf malamute turns up a different kind of sled dog, but it looks nothing like this either. I’m stumped. Is it possible the explanation is as simple as blow-drying? Is what’s different about these puppies an epic case of the frizzies? Do they have normal bodies under there but we can’t tell it because for some reason their fur is sticking straight out? Probably not. I’m grasping at straws. Anybody else got anything?
What do you even call that shape? Watermelonius?
Beth, I’m hoping that these fuzzies were cross-bred with corgis and aren’t the result of designer breeding.
They run with such a short legged stubby gate that they look like munchkin cats. I’m afraid they’re dogs bred deliberately to be genetically dwarfed in a way that is likely to lead to painful life limiting conditions for many of those in the litter.