are wolves attracted to raw meat?

[RatKing0]

A family of wolves is becoming a nuisance, and I was wondering if I'd be able to bait them into a pit by throwing raw meat into it. Would this work, or do carnivores ignore raw meat in favor of live prey?

[Professor Dragon]

Even if they were attracted to meat, I wouldn't recommend it. It will despawn, and you have better uses for your meat.

Wolves ARE attracted for sure to live prey and, well, you. Same thing really.

So dig your standard pit as the trap, and put a small prey animal like a rabbit or chicken in a safe spot above the pit as bait.
The little animals don't despawn. So it is a bit of work, but you only need to do it once.

You could just try a big trench and that would probably work without bait.

[RatKing0]

6 hours ago, Professor Dragon said:

So dig your standard pit as the trap, and put a small prey animal like a rabbit or chicken in a safe spot above the pit as bait.
The little animals don't despawn. So it is a bit of work, but you only need to do it once.

I'll have to give this a try, thank you!