Whether you simply want more fluffy friends, or just some more variety in your world. A Couple of Canines is a datapack that adds a few new wolf variants to vanilla Minecraft to help with that.
IMPORTANT:
The resource pack for A Couple of Canines is required for the textures to show.
Here is a list of the current wolves and their spawn locations:
Varied Wolves: Windswept Forest
Smoky Wolves: Old Growth Birch Forest
Masked Wolves: Cherry Groves
Fields Wolves: Plains
Dusty Wolves: Desert
Shrub Wolves: Windswept Savanna
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
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- Downloads as A Couple of Canines Datapack.zip
- Download size: 567 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.