Although dogs are the most abundant and widely distributed terrestrial carnivores, feral, and free-ranging dogs’ potential to compete with other large carnivores is limited by their strong association with humans. For example, a review of the studies in dogs’ competitive effects on sympatric carnivores did not mention any research on competition between dogs and wolves.Although wolves are known to kill dogs, they tend to live in pairs or in small packs in areas where they are highly persecuted, giving them a disadvantage facing large dog groups.
Wolves kill dogs wherever they are found together. One study reported that in Wisconsin, in 1999, more compensation had been paid for losses due to wolves taking dogs than for wolves taking livestock. In Wisconsin, wolves will often kill hunting dogs, possibly because they are in the wolf’s territory. A strategy has been reported in Russia where one wolf lures a dog into a heavy brush where another wolf waits in ambush.In some instances, wolves have displayed an uncharacteristic fearlessness of humans and buildings when attacking dogs, to the extent that they have to be beaten off or killed. Although the numbers of dogs killed each year are relatively low, it induces a fear of wolves entering villages and farmyards to take dogs, and losses of dogs to wolves have led to demands for more liberal wolf hunting regulations.
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