Human beings aren't all always that transactional. "Homo economicus" is joked about for good reasons.
You can easily imagine situations where a) food is in a temporary surplus due to a successful hunt, so there is little downside to wasting some and b) a sentimental child has access to it.
I had to search it. For example https://www.yellowstone.org/naturalist-notes-wolves-and-rave...
In the past, people were always looking for ways to automate hunting, just like we do with technology, as this was the hardest thing.
And if you ever hunted, imagine having a wolf around when you hunt, it's nuts. They are so powerful and can so easily find prey, they have sick instincts too, much better than humans.
Pair them together and you can understand why that combination works so well.
Our ancestors also gave up lots of surviviability skills to become homo sapiens together with our beloved doges.
"Not all people" but yeah, a certain class of HN commenter who tries to be "rational" about everything.