When I was a boy my folks taught school in rural Alaska. In 1949-51 we were in a village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, where wolfdogs were common. My father had a team of three such dogs. The Yupik people there intentionally cross-bred their huskies and malamutes with wolves because the wolfdogs had “hybrid vigor.” They were more vigorous and had more stamina than the sled dogs, which were low in wolf mix.
Unfortunately, the…