Every Type of Husky Dog Breed Explained

Only one of these dogs is actually a husky. The other nine get called one, and most of them are not closely related. One of them is not a breed at all — and it is the one that wins the races. ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 – Ten dogs, one husky 0:11 – Siberian Husky 0:50 – Alaskan Malamute 1:17 – Alaskan Husky — not a breed 1:47 – Samoyed 2:12 – Alaskan Klee Kai 2:41 – Greenland Dog 3:05 – Canadian Eskimo Dog 3:29 – Shiba Inu 3:59 – Akita Inu 4:20 – American Akita 4:58 – What actually connects them 📌 Things worth knowing • The Siberian Husky was bred by the Chukchi people of north-eastern Siberia to pull a light load a long way on very little food. In the 1925 serum run to Nome, Balto got the statue in Central Park — Togo ran the longest and most dangerous leg, about 260 miles, and got almost nothing. • The Alaskan Husky is not a breed. No standard, no registry, no kennel club recognition, because it is defined purely by what it can do. The teams that win the Iditarod are usually running these, not Siberian Huskies. • The Samoyed's permanently upturned mouth is a real trait, not a coincidence. It stops the dog drooling in extreme cold, because icicles would form. • The Alaskan Klee Kai was created deliberately in Alaska in the 1970s as a companion-sized sled dog. It is not a runt Siberian, and it is barely fifty years old. • The Canadian Eskimo Dog collapsed from tens of thousands to a few hundred when snowmobiles replaced dog teams. The Inuit name for it, qimmiq, just means "dog". • The Akita split in two after the war. American servicemen took home the bigger, heavier dogs the war years had produced; Japan spent decades breeding those traits back out. By the end of the 1990s they were two separate breeds. 📷 Photography All photographs are licensed from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences. Siberian Husky: Bönisch (CC BY-SA 2.0 de); Lilly M (CC BY 2.5); Unknown (CC BY-SA 2.0/CC BY-SA 3.0); user:Przykuta (CC BY-SA 3.0) Alaskan Malamute: Dezidor (CC BY 3.0); Pets Adviser from Brooklyn, USA (CC BY 2.0); Pleple2000 15:24, 8 May 2006 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 3.0); Richard Bartz (CC BY-SA 2.5); Ron Armstrong from Helena, MT, USA (CC BY 2.0); Unknown (CC BY-SA 3.0) Alaskan Husky: Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA (CC BY 2.0); PaterMcFly (CC BY-SA 3.0); T. Bjornstad (CC BY-SA 3.0); Unknown (CC BY-SA 3.0) Samoyed: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (CC BY 2.5); EduardoVela (CC BY-SA 4.0); Mihai Guzu (CC BY-SA 3.0); Sp..andreea (CC BY-SA 3.0) Alaskan Klee Kai: Andrea Arden (CC BY 2.0); Cometguy1961 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Gnuyen (CC BY-SA 3.0); Iibao123 (CC BY-SA 3.0); Just Chaos (CC BY 2.0); Pauxcide (CC BY-SA 3.0) Greenland Dog: Bjoertvedt (CC BY-SA 3.0); Kim Hansen (CC BY-SA 3.0); Markus Trienke (CC BY-SA 2.0); Slaunger (CC BY-SA 3.0); Slaunger , edited by Thegreenj (CC BY-SA 3.0) Canadian Eskimo Dog: Ansgar Walk (CC BY-SA 2.5); Biodiversity Heritage Library (CC BY 2.0); Mondarruego2011 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Shiba Inu: Maja Dumat (CC BY 2.0); Nancy Wong (CC BY-SA 4.0); Svenska Mässan from Sweden (CC BY 2.0); Takashi Hososhima from Tokyo, Japan (CC BY-SA 2.0) Akita Inu: B@rt (CC BY-SA 3.0); Ivanfurlanis (CC BY-SA 3.0); Malcolm Gin (CC BY-SA 3.0); Peturset (Peter Theakston) (CC BY 2.0) American Akita: Alden Chadwick (CC BY 2.0); Caro108 (CC BY-SA 2.0 de/CC BY-SA 3.0); Living in Monrovia (CC BY-SA 2.0) 🔔 Subscribe — every breed, one family at a time. #Husky #SiberianHusky #Malamute #Samoyed #ShibaInu #Akita #DogBreeds #Dogs