Wolves suffer from a variety of injuries and diseases.
From common diseases like mange to parasites like ticks and fleas. They also suffer injuries in the wild. Wolves can get injuries from large prey animals that defend themselves, when the pack attacks a large moose or bison they can receive injuries from kicks and if the prey had antlers or horns it can cause a lot of damage. Wolves are susceptible to more than one hundred diseases and parasites, including roundworm, tape worm, flatworm, mange, mites, ticks, fleas, distemper, cataracts, oral papillomatosis, tularemia, bovine tuberculosis, arthritis, cancer, rickets, pnumonia, Lyme disease, and many other ailments. In Sarcoptic mange, intence itching is caused by the female mites' burrowing under the skin to lay eggs.