The Malamute is much larger and stockier than ... This breed was originally developed from dogs who had some wolf hybrid ancestry. So, while the breed is no longer hybridized with wolves, you ...

were determined to be wolf/husky/malamute hybrids that belonged to a local resident and had gone feral,' the Shasta County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tim Mapes said in part.

Shasta County authorities at the time of the April sightings suspected the wolf mixes, described as a wolf/husky/malamute hybrid, had been owned at one time but had gone feral.