I don’t get it, is it a bad idea for a new player to run around swinging a wolf?

Depends on the kind and player level. A normal wolf though, should probably be fine,

Vintage Story has completely disabused me of petting the wolves (or bears for that matter, and don’t get me started on sabertooth cats in the “Fauna of the Stone-Age”-mod)

The original is better

Great, now I want to play an Exalted character who has a custom charm to summon local critters to use as nunchucks after tying their tails together. Kind of like in Kung Pow, except with wolves and they bite on hit.

Natural evolution of the rat flail

Obviously. GNU Terry Pratchett.

I had not tought about it but the parents(?) only yelled and complained, none of them tried to take away the sword or teach her how to use it safely.

I think its funny that you can buy a baby wolf from a trader then when it grows up it tries to kill you. I believe they’re going to do something more with it later, but for now you can just buy a box of delayed violence

Box of delayed violence makes me think a cat housing in a box, but now I’ll imagine a wolf!

The kid has a sword. They might get stabbed.

i guess they also got a sword, as they’ve been educated on it’s dangerousness

As someone who almost suffered a 1st level TPK at the hands of a pack of wolves:

Dude.

Uncool.