Another element that could be at play here:
He thought it was a dog.
Dogs, because we domesticated them, have muscles around their eyes, that allow them to make eye/eyebrow expressions.
Wolves do not have these. Because they’re the ones we did not domesticate for millenia.
So, if he was expecting dog expressions… wolves literally cannot make the same facial expressions.
They essentially always look like they have RBF, in comparison to a dog.

































They kill rats.
Keep the granaries uninfested.
And roughly half of them also carry a parasite that rewires the brain/neurological DNA of humans via epigenetic manipulation.
Also they can be adorable.