Heres just a little tutorial on how to find and tame wolves in minecraft.
1. Get some bones and meat (if you want) - Bones come from skeletons and the amount you need is random. Meat comes from pigs and attracts wolves and if you want to use it, it may help.
2. Find a taiga biome or a forest biome - Taiga biomes are snow covered, mountainy, and have some trees. Forest biomes are densely covered in trees.
3. Wait for night - Wolves spawn more commonly at night.
4. Place some torches - Friendly mobs like to be in light.
5. Go away wait a minute and come back - When i left for about 30 seconds and came back there was around 20 pigs, sheep, and cows being killed by 4 wolves.
6. Right click on wolves with bones - Keep clicking on the wolves with the bones until hearts come out and they gain a red color.
I don't see HOW you could drown em. I personaly did a test on my wolves and you can't drown em, although I never tried blocking them off so it's impossible for them to swim up but I think even THAT won't kill em. Only way that you could hurt ur wolves is going to high to low places quickly and since they not that smart they just jump off the high place and get hurt. also tnt hurts em badly cause they not smart enough to run.
I found a pack of wolves! There was about 9 of them killing sheep. I wasn't even able to tame one though. About how many bones does it take to tame them?
