[Howard]

...much affection for its master? I know dogs have been strongly bred to 'love' their masters and I know this comes from the pack instinct of wolves, but would a wolf love its master?

[mavinakdel]

I found this site informative, perhaps you will also.http://www.wolves-usa.com/

[Seano]

I have a friend who thought a wolf/husky hybrid would be neat to own. Long story short he had to have it put down after it attacked him, its too wild to tame.

[mattzcoz]

A wolf MIGHT be made to "respect" it's master, but as they say, it's dog eat dog. One slip on your part and you're toppled from the top of the pack. Domestic dogs have eons of subservience to humans bred into them - the savage and too aggressive ones were killed. A wolf would no more stand in for a dog than a tiger would stand in for a house cat.

[Anniekd]

I believe a wolf would love it's master less as a master, more as a brother. Does that make sense? More on an equal footing, and then there's all that wildness left in them to deal with. There'd be less of an attachment since you'd expect him to be something he wasn't, and vice versa, but I believe the natural instinct to stick together is still the same.

[harley7175]

absolutely not, bad idea all around. It's not about love for wolves, or even dogs really. Wolves don't follow their leader because they love them, it's because the leader has shown strength or superiority in some way. Wolves are not domesticated and would not fit into a household, it would just to lead to frustration on both sides and could be very dangerous. Dogs bond to us because we provide what they need and they are social, it works because they have been part of human society for hundreds of years. Even wolf hybrids are not completely safe. You hear of it happening, but this is the exception.

[Noah George]

Though the pack instinct is still strong in dogs, it's not the same sort of instinct as it is for wolves because of the extremely different way that their minds work. Also, wolves have a much stronger pack mentality in a sense; if a pack leader becomes ill or unable to effectively lead the pack to the pack's suiting, or even are unable to show that they are capable of doing so, then the pack will immediately seek to replace them with a wolf that can. This sometimes means killing another pack member if need be (if they're that much of a detriment, or even if the conflict gets to that extent). Basically, wolves work much more out of respect and little out of love, though a dog also needs to respect their owner or else they can be a terror.