As I noted in an earlier post,
“Wild wolves are still being tamed every day.“Why?“Simple enough: for pets.“The same trend is true for every other animal under the sun: coyotes, red fox, monkeys, apes, hyenas, tigers, lions, tapirs, sloths, crows, hawks, parrots, badgers, fenecs, servals, raccoons, cheetahs, bears, bobcats, rats, agoutis, possum, groundhogs... the list is endless. We routinely make pets of them all, in modern culture as well as primitive.”
In the first picture, we see a modern Kazak hunter who has raided a wolf den to steal away the cubs. These wolf cubs are then raised and later sold to dog fighters or killed for their skins.
How close can a Kazak dog be to a wolf? That obviously depends a lot on the particular dog, but take a look at the Kazak dog in the third picture (source >> https://sl1nk.com/nN3ycFQ ) and compare and contrast with the second image of a wolf-fighting dog.
Just two decades ago, Kazakhstan was said to have the largest wolf population in the world, with about 90,000 animals spread over about a million square miles. Since then, a government program of permitted culling has reduced the Kazakh wolf population to 13,000 to 15,000.
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