I'm sort of in a unique position to understand this stuff. I grew up on a farm. When I was a toddler my grandmother developed leukemia. My father worked off the farm and my mother became obsessed with caring for her ailing mother. Our nearest neighbor with a child near my age was miles away.
My mother and aunt had a kennel of standard poodles they raised for obedience trials. Those dogs and puppies became my family and I spent almost all my time with them until I went to kindergarten. My nervous system became far more attuned to dogs than it did to humans, a reality that remains with me 65 years later.
I might suggest you read a little bit about wolves in Europe oh five, six hundred years ago. Back then hunting wolves was not a fun "sport" to be done with high powered rifles from helicopters. Hunting wolves had to be done up close and personal and if you screwed up you could die. Yet, wolves were all be exterminated from all areas on the continent. Why? Because they killed children, adults, livestock and they are smart and like humans will kill just for the sake of killing.
These people who fool around with wolves and wolf hybrids are taking their lives, or at a minimum severe injury, in their hands each time they go into those enclosures. Very few of us read canines well enough to know how to avoid triggering instinctive behavior by our actions, body language, just body scent to mention a few potential triggers. Many of the tragedies you read about where little children get mauled by dogs aren't because the dog was "bad". Little kids can move and behave like prey items and that triggers an instinctive response from the dog.
I've been around a few wolf hybrids and they are remarkable animals but they are also animals that are very much in touch with their instincts. That lady, and all who do what she does, spend their time in those enclosures at their own peril.
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