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Originally Posted by NC_Skins
You should see this documentary called Dogs Decoded. Much more detailed and goes into how the domestic dog came about from grey wolves. One part of the film is a experiment of a lady trying to raise a wolf at pup. Yeah....no. Aggressiveness and instincts they found to be genetic and in their bloodline. Amazing film, I think everybody should watch it.
TL  R - you aren't raising a wild wolf.
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well, it's sorta more complicated than that. at seacrest, most of the wolves are raised by humans from the first week of life, but some are from failed shelters that were only human raised from when they were 1 year old.
the 1 year wild ones will try to hamstring you if you turn your back etc for the most part while the 1 week wild ones are generally completely safe.
in russia they did a study with silver foxes and found something like 59% were aggressive towards humans, 40% where extremely afraid of humans and 1% had no reaction at all. after cross breeding the foxes without a reaction for 10 generations they had a fully domesticated population of sillver foxes.
my numbers are probably off, i don't remember te details that well, but they did a huge docu on the domestication of wolves. here's a link with links to the silver fox thing though:
Domesticated silver fox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(so i believe with wolves, like foxes, some are much more genetically inclined to be human friendly vs others, either way they don't really act like dogs).
and raising tigers is MUCH more dangerous than wolves by far. they're great as cubs, then the grow up and turn into tigers overnight. while i never went to the tiger place, i had a friend that worked there (same area in florida - it's where most circus tigers are trained).