The problem is that instinct hasn't a clear defintion. I was referring to fear or to be aware of danger. I took the meaning of instinct from the mention in this thread:
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animals have good instincts about things and people and since my dog didn't see them as hostile or a threat
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I should have say this explicit.
You described another meaning of instinct that is correct, but this would exclude the meaning of instinct we are talking here. Because the fear or recognizing danger of dogs or wolves is a learned behaviour and not an automatically, irresistible, occur at some point in development, be triggered by some event in the environment, occur in every member of the species (or castes), be unmodifiable and govern behaviour.