Alaskan Malamutes are a working breed. They need to be kept active and the excel in activities they were bred to do. They are a heavy freighting breed, designed to carry or pull heavy loads over long distances. Thanks to the Alaskan Malamute Club or America (AMCA), in 1977, these activities are encouraged through working titles in three main disciplines; Weight Pull, Backpacking and Sledding/Mushing (involving team dog titles and lead dog titles). Each discipline has three levels of increasing difficulty, these are basic, advanced and excellence. In 2006, the first malamutes in the UK gained their first working titles and UK malamutes haven't looked back since with many more gradually gaining working titles in the UK.

The main aims for these titles are:

To encourage people to work their Alaskan Malamutes in the pursuits for which they were intended.

To provide Certificates for those Alaskan Malamutes proven in these pursuits.

To thus encourage the breeding of a better Alaskan Malamute.

(REF: AMCA Website)

More information about the different levels can be found below:

Working Dog Certificates:

Working Dog Advanced Certificates:

Working Dog Excellent Certificate: