OK, it's been a long time since I had a dog. I bought a townhouse condo 22 years ago, and have lived there ever since. I like big dogs, and I've wanted a German Sheperd for years, but being in a condo and not even having a yard kinda makes it just a pipe dream I guess. Anyway speaking of wolves, or wolf dog mixes, here are two examples I know of:
I worked with a guy who had a timber wolf/Malamute dog mix. The dog had an overwhelmingly uncontrollable instinct to hunt other animals. Because of that intense hunting instinct, the guy always had lots of problems with the dog hunting down and killing skunks in and around their backyard. His back yard bordered some woods. One night he heard a type of high pitched squealing noises which almost sounded like a baby screaming. So he went outside in his backyard, only to find his wolf/dog taking a baby skunk in his mouth and tossing it up vertically into the air, catching it back into his mouth, and tossing it up again and again...playing catch with the thing.
The problem was that while this game of skunk catch was going on, not only was the skunk squealing, but as he tumbled head over feet in the air each time the wolf/dog tossed him up, he was spraying all over the place along with blood flying out of his gut from the dog chewing on him a little bit each time he caught him. LOL. Not only would the dog not stop no matter how much his owner told him to, but both the dog and his owner, (my co-worker) were sprayed pretty good by the skunk. So both the guy and the wolf/dog had to sleep outside that night cuz they both stunk so bad. The guy told me that this was not the first time this had happened.
Story #2.this is about pure wolves though. A professional engine builder I know who lives in CA owns an entire pack of wolves, that he keeps legally in his back yard fenced in. He has raised them from pups so they all know him well and vice versa, and the Alpha male is allowed to enter their house whenever he wants and lounge around with him and his wife. But he told me that he cannot allow any guest to enter into the wolf pack enclosure IF the guest in question, walks with an obvious limp, has a cane, or an obvious injury, because when that has occured in the past, the wolves he owns all go into pack hunting mode, and begin to circle the guest because they sense that he/she is an easy kill due to the obvious signs of injury or physical weakness.