Can wolves be domesticated?
NO. Wolves are way to far from domestication as a species to be considered an animal which can be “domesticated” directly from wolf or wolf stock. “Domestication” is MORE than just raising and animal in a human environment. It is a PROCESS by which certain instinctive behavioral patterns are deliberately suppressed and other patterns are encourages. These are a GENETIC predispositions and take GENERATIONS to occur; it is thus NOT something which happens just by raising a wolf pup to adulthood with human socialization in a few months. If you look at the various breeds of dogs and compare their physiological and behavioral patterns with wolves, you can see that dogs have been bred to capture certain adolescent behaviors which can be seen in wolves, while other adult patterns are suppressed. There is more to it than this, but that’s the gist of it. I visited Wolf Park in Battleground, Indiana to learn some things about wolves (it being pretty close to where I was born and raised, this was
