My first night time emergency call as a vet tech was for an Akita that took on a porky....got real good at pulling quills when I lived at Tahoe. We've got coyotes around here too, and warning signs around the neighborhood occasionally when they come in for a fresh kitty or chihuahua snack or two. Theoretically, any wild animal can be tamed and trained, but it all depends on the trainer and the animal. Used to have an intense interest in falconry and there are no "commercial" outlets for buying a hawk or falcon, a few are bred by other falconers and some taken from the wild. With any wild animal, the most successful "taming" happens with the youngest possible animal, birds right out of the nest, a litter of wolf/coyote/dingo pups or cougar/bobcat/lynx kittens..bear cubs...deer...any "orphaned" youngster where you replace the parent, but it isn't easy and except for a falconer with a permit, usually illegal. I worked with some wildlife rehabbers, and while it is possible and not uncommon to develop a bond with a wild animal, especially orphans, they are still wild and require extreme caution, vigilance, and in some cases protective clothing when handling, kinda like riding a motorcycle on the freeway in rush hour. In some cases, as with the hand raised California Condors, special conditions are created to PREVENT that sort of bonding, so the animal doesn't become dependant on people or "imprinted", a term meaning wild animals "thinking" it's natural to be in the company of people/domestic animals. Imprinted animals usually create a nuisance and end up being destroyed or living in zoos. And once they are rehabbed, the law requires their release into their natural environment. But...I've known people with wolf/dog and coy/dog mixes....and everyone around here calls Australian Cattle Dogs dingos...
