Perfectly stated...
I have my own wolf. He’s all of 18 pounds a little Fox Terrier and he controls the vermin (squirrels) in our backyard that literally eat everything in sight!
They get into the attic and chew wires, they literllay eat our fence...but he’s really helped control the damage!
I currently have 3 Rat Terriers. We had 4, but the oldest male developed lympho-sarcoma 3 weeks after he was neutered. Rat Terriers are a cross of Fox Terrier and Manchester Terrier. Our little guys eat the occasional squirrel. You can detect that gamey, fishy odor on them. Two of them are quite capable of climbing 6 feet up into the branches of our two big Black Austrian pines. We keep them fit by running them with a laser pointer in the evenings. They are fast as lightning.
I had a wolf/collie cross when I was young. We picked him up from a breeder near Seattle. He was a great dog. 120 lbs of solid muscle. He was very loyal to the family.