Actually, probably not. I know in Michigan, it is actually illegal to own wolves without a special permit. Including many wolf/dog hybrids.

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If you get it young enough and you have a personality that cares and joins with it (non beating) sure. I've seen guys in India that have unmilked king cobras as pets.

NO. Wolves are way to far from domestication as a species to be considered an animal which can be "domesticated" directly from wolf or wolf stock. "Domestication" is MORE than just raising and animal in a human environment. It is a PROCESS by which certain instinctive behavioral patterns are deliberately suppressed and other patterns are encourages. These are a GENETIC predispositions and take GENERATIONS to occur; it is thus NOT something which happens just by raising a wolf pup to adulthood with human socialization in a few months. If you look at the various breeds of dogs and compare their physiological and behavioral patterns with wolves, you can see that dogs have been bred to capture certain adolescent behaviors which can be seen in wolves, while other adult patterns are suppressed. There is more to it than this, but that's the gist of it. I visited Wolf Park in Battleground, Indiana to learn some things about wolves (it being pretty close to where I was born and raised, this was something I could do fairly frequently), and I learned a LOT. For example, people who think the domesticated behavior they are used to in dogs is representative of the SAME behavior in wolves can be DEAD WRONG. When your house dog or yard dog hears your child cry because it's hungry, it looks at the child, paces, check on the child, or does things to get your attention. It notices the child, takes an interest, and takes some benign action more in tune with treating the child like a family/pack member. But when a WOLF hears your child cry because it's hungry, it looks at the child, paces, maybe comes up to check the child...but it ISN'T doing this because it wants to draw your attention. The cries of the child have triggered an instinctive STALKING response that tells the wolf "PREY: SMALL AND WEAK". The wolf doesn't look at the crying child as a family/pack member with a need. It looks at the crying child as FOOD. And this is because the instincts it was BORN with are telling it this. Another aspect which is different is this: As pack oriented creatures, dogs and wolves both seek to know their status in terms of dominance within their pack. Dogs have been bred to accept their status in their pack (the family which owns the dogs) as something that is established once and then never (or extremely rarely) changes throughout the dogs life. Not so for a wolf. Even though the wolf's placement within a pack may be initially established at some point, that position is almost ALWAYS up for debate. Show weakness in the pack (or family which owns the wolf) and the wolf will try to challenge that individual and move up in status. Hybrids are somewhere in the middle of the behavioral extremes, and in fact may be LESS predictable than pure-bred wolves. Domestication of dogs is a process which is literally thousands of years old. Dogs were specifically bred to re-enforce the juvenile, pack-bonding, trainable, social characteristics that have made dogs the domestic breeds they are today. But the wolf doesn't have that. And neither do wolf-dog hybrids. Can you KEEP a wolf or a wolf-hybrid as a pet? The answer is YES, you can. HOWEVER, the key to safely doing this, and in a way which is healthy for the wolf/wolf hybrid, is to understand the differences between wolves and dogs. And NEVER forget that a wolf is NOT a dog! Here are a couple links on the subject: http://www.wolfpark.org/wolfdogs/position.html http://www.wolfpark.org/wolfdogs/Poster_section5.html A side note here: I could not find a reference on the Wolf Park website. I remember a number at one presentation that was in four figures: i.e. over 1,000 PSI bite force for a wolf. But you can google this for yourself. DON'T kid yourself about the relative bite strength of the wolf compared to the domesticated dog. This includes such dogs as the Pit Bull, the German Shepard, and the Rottweiller. Think the Pit Bull has a terrifingly powerful bite? Double it for the wolf. There are sites which put the wolf at 400+ PSI bite force, some between 500 & 700 PSI, and one I found which puts a wild wolf at 1,600 PSI. The Pit Bull measures out at anywhere from 130-235 PSI, the German Shepard at 130-238 PSI, and the Rottweiller at 265-328 PSI. These results aren't formally tabulated in well documented research, under exacting conditions, from what I've seen on the internet. They are gross estimations which will probably vary a lot given the methods used for measuring, whether the animals are fully mature, how aggressive the individuals are when tested, and so forth. But you get the picture, I trust.