An Alpha of a pack of Wolves leads the females. Wolves and dogs came from the same base ingredients (Similar original organism) and dogs are just a subspecies in the same tree as wolves. Dogs are just wolves that have been bred to provide admiriable traits such as loyalty, strength, speed, etc... You can train a fox as well as a wolf, it just takes longer due to having to breed out the aggression i.e. Don't let the angry ones breed.