Howler: to answer your questions, NO animal knows it could die, will die or are in the danger of dying. They just can't think with that kind of logic. They become road shy because by going near the road and getting shot at, they know it is a place that things happen that are out of their understanding and out of their control.

as soon as the pups are old enough to leave the den and hunt on their own and are not dependent on the pups, yes that will happen. Not everytime, but again, a distress is a distress, they don't know rabbit from coyote to any other animal, it is just another distress.

I never said use howls to locate ONLY, I use howls on every single stand I do, I said use it to locate at night. I howl during the day to trigger a territory response and get the locals to start moving looking for an intruder. NO, they will not howl back 100% of the time, as I said in a previous post, I had one within 30 feet of me that came in dead silent, But MOST of the time you will get SOME of them to howl back thus giving away the denning sight. Sometimes it's the young stupid ones, but MOST times some will howl back.

I don't completely understand your last sentence but I will try to answer. You are not "educating" them to your howls/voice by locating at night. because you are just trying to get a location and then moving on. You are not calling them close to you so they feel endangered. It is just a location thing.