Yeah, usually. It's not like it has a PhD.

[ WOLVES ARE DUMB txt it. ]

If you string up some meat in an abandoned area, it'll usually get preoccupied with that. Sometimes deer still wander through, but-

[ Deer and other things. No humans, luckily, but he may have had to deal with the taste of vampire in his mouth the next morning once or twice. ]

So you can completely control it? It doesn't hurt, does it?

[ The question's nearly rhetorical. He's asked the same of other shifters, and it's been a pretty universal 'no'. ]