The Call of the Wild - Jack London. The dogs in The Call of the Wild are pets and working dogs, none of them wild, all of them belonging to some human. But as the story goes on, Buck is called into the wild and soon is unrecognizable as a dog - described as "a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, and yet, unlike, all other wolves" (London 62). Buck passes through many owners but the place he seems to fit the most is the wild. The story leads the reader to believe that maybe the wild is the right place for all animals, maybe humans should not have taken some to be their own.