Daniel replies:

I'd just like to say that I have never experienced anything I regarded as a crisis involving Malamutes.  This is probably because when I had them I was still in my Sergeant Preston of the Yukon/Jack London period, and had the functional stupidity of youth.  The last time I had occasion to break up a fight between two large dogs single-handed, I was a mature human being, and felt a little rush of sweet nostalgia.