The wolves used in this show are not wolves, they are Malamute Huskies, easier to handle for animal trainers and safer to use in films and television because of their docile nature.
The story has some parallels to the chaste Roman goddess of the hunt, Diana (also the main character's name). In a story in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a young hunter named Acteon saw Diana bathing in a forest spring. To punish him for seeing her naked, Diana turned him into a stag, and his fellow hunters and own hunting dogs caught him and tore him apart.
Charlotte Sullivan and Adam MacDonald (who was in the 5th episode of the season, The Tale of the Misfortune Cookie), would go on to play siblings in the series, Rookie Blue (also known as Copper).
For some unknown reason this episode isn't on paramount streaming.