Whatever happened to herds of animals?
Anyways, I think it would make sense for packs of wolves to spawn together and form a tight pack of adults and babies that stay together and be passive to the player but pick fights with solitary animals. This ganking usually results in the wolves winning and eating the animal's corpse. Attacking a wolf or stealing their kills or their cubs results in all of them aggroing you and you getting a pretty horrific beat down, but if you do manage to grab a cub (either by bringing an equally large group or just grabbing one and running like a bitch) you can take it into a dog. Not sure how this would work, beating a cub into submission would seem too easy, maybe feeding it tons of raw meat?
Also wearing wolf hide for some sort of combat bonus