Reputation based argumentation is pretty weak though. His reasoning may be sound but it is still highly speculative. Speculating some myself, it's easy to see

Reputation based argumentation is pretty weak though. His reasoning may be sound but it is still highly speculative. Speculating some myself, it's easy to see how a domesticated wolf could be useful for hunting, guard duty, or even offensive use. The nature of wolfs is that they are pack animals so they'd submit to a strong master. Probably, early hunter gatherers, would have encountered and occasionally killed wolfs in the wild. The chances of encountering a wolf with some pubs would have been non zero and it raises the question what a hunter would do with some pups after disposing of the mother. Just speculating here but it seems that that's a story that just writes itself. From there to breeding animals is a small leap.