These trusty dads had already spotted the rather large and scary four-legged wolf. The noise of the howling in the moonlight was quite a familiar sound to any village gathering. As food was cooked the smell was a powerful temptation to these mysterious animals and they would inch their way towards the camp, nibbling and scavenging the remains of the day. Presenting no apparent threat to the villages, who determined they were not about to be wolf lunch, wolves just sort of moved in on the happy campers and became a familiar part of the commune. They got to eat without too much effort of hunting and humans got their first pets.
Wolves share a crucial similarity to humans.
They are both social animals with complex communication. The wolf is highly skilled visually and reads information via body language. They watch each other's faces and movements and interpret gestures with a high degree of accuracy. They teach their young by complex movements and gestures just like us. Humans are nearly identical in this skill of reading the body language of other humans since so much is nonverbal in the way we move and gesticulate.