Do wolves/dogs eat their young?

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Bare with me this might be slightly lengthy...

 

I've successfully brought three wolves back to my base, two females and one male. I've raised familiarity for all so that I could bred. Originally I had brought back just one female and the male. The female was successfully pregnant. At a later time I went to pet both of them and noticed it said female and nothing about being pregnant. (Side note: sometime after the female was successfully pregnant the person I play with decided to be funny and threw a snowball at me. It's just the two of us on his server and not sure why he set to allow pvp, but that action then made the male dog who was following me attack him. lol Good dog! I managed to get the dog leashed and away from my friend.) For almost two days the male dog sat leashed with glaring red eyes growling. I tried several times to bred both the male and female to no avail.

 

I decided maybe one or both were bugged, so I ventured out and brought back another female. I managed to successfully breed her and moved her to a separate pen we built. One night following gestation a pup appeared. Just one. I thought I had read that there should be three to seven pups. After I squealed with some delight for having a pup I went about some other stuff I was working on around our base. The next "day" I went back to check on the pup and it was gone.  So then I got to thinking, maybe the other female had a pup and it disappeared too, hence my question do wolves eat their young? I've been driving my friend crazy because I keep asking him why this is happening. He is more the Terrafirmacraft expert than I am. He's played it far longer. I finally was able to breed the original female the other day and this evening she gave birth to just one pup. My friend suggested leashing the pup since we've had trouble with the other one, which I did. I've never had issue in the past with breeding. I've successfully bred the cows, pigs and sheep we have, so I am unsure what is the problem.

 

So two questions to ponder and advise if you can: 

 

Do the wolves/dogs eat their young?

Why only one pup, when there should be three to seven?

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Wolves do not eat their young.

 

Apparently Bioxx nerfed the litter size to only give 1 puppy. This wasn't documented well, which is why it didn't make it into the change log.

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Wolves do not eat their young.

 

Apparently Bioxx nerfed the litter size to only give 1 puppy. This wasn't documented well, which is why it didn't make it into the change log.

Thanks for finding out Kitty. Any thoughts on what may have caused the one, both my friend and I saw, disappear? We've logged for the night and my new pup was leashed, I am hoping it's there tomorrow. Thanks again.

[Kittychanley 1,002]

Just like in vanilla, dogs are really dumb. It's entirely possible that while the pup was following you around, it fell off a cliff, or drowned, of walked into lava or a prickly bush and died.