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"There are a few more issues you should consider when you add a malamute to your family. One of the most important is malamutes and children. Most mals love kids. They are not, however, a child’s pet. Mals are just “too much dog” for a child to handle — kids simply lack the stature, presence and tone of voice to be perceived by your malamute as being alpha. And, of course, they do not have the physical strength to manage such a powerful dog. However, it is vital that kids, working under their parents’ supervision, take an active role in training your pet, so she will learn that although not alpha, children do rank above her in the family social order. Start early, and have your children do as many different training exercises with the dog as possible, being sure to choose only exercises which the child can complete successfully. Moderate use of food rewards is appropriate, but remember that the best response rate is always achieved with an intermittent reward schedule. In other words, once a behaviour has been learned, your children will reward with food randomly, only once in awhile. This will remind your mal that the child is in control of the reward, and avoid the common pitfall of having the dog think that she has trained the child (or, for that matter, any trainer) to give her a reward each time she performs a given behaviour.
One final note about children and dogs — all dogs. Young children must never be left unsupervised with any puppy or dog — yours or anyone else’s! In spite of the child’s and dog’s affection for each other, it still takes a lot of learning on both sides for them to understand how to behave towards each other. The vast majority of problems involving children and dogs are a result of children behaving like children, dogs behaving like dogs, and parents or other responsible adults failing to provide proper supervision and education.
All dogs go through a teenage phase. In malamutes, this generally happens sometime between eight months and two years of age. Suddenly your agreeable little pup will start to develop a mind of her own, and will challenge your every wish, seemingly forgetting all those hard-earned obedience skills. This is a normal part of growth, and is the time when each breed’s adult temperament emerges. If you have laid a good foundation during your pup’s first months, you should both survive this stage with your sanity intact. Just be prepared, and respond with absolute confidence, firmness and consistency to all attempts at insurrection. It shouldn't be too long before your bratty teenager realises that all of the rules she learned as a puppy still apply, and begins to mature into a happy, confident, well-mannered adult. "
