You manage to get the bleeding wolf onto your back and you lumber back towards town. As you're nearing town, the wolf speaks to you in a weak, but gentle, feminine voice:

"Not...the town.."

"You'll die if you don't get any help, ma'am." You tell the wolf.

"My son...lives on a wrecked boat..." the she-wolf replied.

You knew where the boat was, though it would take longer to get there than to get the wolf to a vet; and she wasn't going to last long in this world. You....