Regarding Runaway Wolves- ANSWERED

I cannot seem to find an answer in any guides or other topics, so I figure I will ask it here myself. I know that wolves have the chance to leave the pack due to neglect or overcrowding- my question is what happens if you do not take the steps to reclaim them? Will those wolves then enter the NBW pool as possible 'chased' wolves you can encounter? The reason I'm asking is because I have some pups I eventually want to chase to add more wolves to that pool, but may not have the space to house them all when they reach the aging up roll over.

I'm not 100% sure but I think that runaway wolves are deleted from the game and do not end up in the chased pool. Pups for sure, since there is no way to encounter them in explore and the game don't age them up when they are chased.

My understanding is that only adult wolves that are chased volutarily can end up in the pool (and during testing we were told that not all chased wolves end up in the pool), so that if you wanna get rid of a wolf but you don't want other players to eventually be able to befriend them again, you can let them run away and be sure that they are deleted.

Again, I'm not 100% sure, but if runaway wolves really ended up in the chased pool, we would have noticed more variety in the chased wolves that show up when befriending.

Ah I see, that makes sense! Thank you for the thorough answer! And by the way I love your profile picture ☺️