I find it really easy to pick up the desired wolf with an argy and take it to a safe place and drop it not far from a rock where it cant get up so you can safely land your argy. Jump off the rock and bola the wolf and then knock it out, tame it and tadaa! You have a wolf. And then you can also safely carry it back to your base on the argy

I play mobile BTW

Tips in taming a high level wolf in the Island (Hard mode)

Prep:

•A good sword

•1500+armor with cold resistance (I have ascendant chitin armor lol)

•20-30 Ancient Amber (depending on the level of the wolf)

•Grapple (1 is enough but just add more to be sure)

•A long ranged weapon (just make sure it has decent damage and durability)

•Spyglass (to see the level, or you can just go near the wolf but that's just dangerous:)

•Bola (of course you will need this)

•Knockout weapons (tranqs)

•Taming Items (Prime or raw meat, Narcotics, and soothing balm if possible)

Steps

•Go to cave where the artifact of the strong is.

•If you can see some wolves, grapple to the icy ceiling.

•Use your sword while grappled if onycs are attacking you.

•Find the wolf of your dreams

•kill the other enemies in the area using your ranged weapon or sword if you want.

•When all that is left is your choosen wolf, kill it but make sure you don't hit its dead body.

•Check the dead body and get its "Implant"

•Go to an oblisk or revival platform.

•Prepare your bola, taming items and knockout weapons.

•Revive the wolf with your amber and ready to aim the bola.

•Bola the wolf when it's revived then do the taming basics.(knockout and feed)

•If all things go well, then you now have a high level direwolf

I tried a 600+ lvl male wolf and then it turned into a lvl 900 when I finished taming. I wasn't satisfied so I tamed another 600 female wolf, breed them and now I have a lvl 800 wolf with 10000 base HP and 1000% base Melee damage.(It's not much but it's fun cuz I play PVE)

These are awesome tames and thanks devs because they don’t require saddles(hard to knock out but easy to trap and feed). They are SUPER STRONG so be prepared to encounter them in the snow and have good armor. Also don’t bother knocking them out with Scorpio. They are too strong for scorpions so just use tranq darts on a big rock they can’t get on. R.I.P danny. Enjoy your new wolf and please up this if it helped you know how awesome they are!

I recommend using pterenodon and this is with all creatures u want to see any creature b4 it sees u make sure u have tranqs and a bow or two I recommend grabbing 30 to 40 tranqs u won't need em all but just bring it, so I ride into the snow with ptera and u will most likely see a mammoth or rhino fighting some when they are done use the ptera to harvest the meat of the dead predator u will get like 5 prime meat if ur lucky then find your wolf rarely u will find these guys solo and thats great if they are alone they can't use pack buff tranq it when it starts running after few tranqs hit it one more time they won't fall once they start running they need one or two more, give it the prime meat or regular meat or prime fish what ever u got maybe feed it some narcotics then when it tamed up whistle tell it to stop moving it will stay put now u can go back to base on your flier(it doesn't matter what flier I only said ptera cus that's what I have) then request the dire wolf and it will teleport to u goodluck get at least 2 dire wolf then get on the highest level one and if on mobile tap the screen with to fingers U DONT NEED SADDLE 10/10 tame very easy tame watch videos if u need more help

How to tame: Find a low level one. And lead it away from it pack. (This will really only work on scorched earth because they either travel in very small packs, or sometimes solo. The most I have yet seen them in is a pack of three.) Bola it. Then shoot tranqs into face. (Or boomerang) Once it is knocked out, place plant species Y all around it so u won’t be killed if it’s pack comes back or a hostile animal comes by. I recommend starve taking them because you xD n then tame them with regular meat. Hope this helps!