Can a lycaon pictus mate with a wolf

i was wondering can lycaon pictus mate with a wolf. they would look at a dog as a food rather than a mate. so how about the wolf they are in the same family right?

Two species can only mate if they are closely related and within the same genus..However, not all species within the same genus can reproduce..

Lycaon pictus is obviously in a different genus then a wolf (which is Canis lupus). Wolves (Canis lupus) can however reproduce with dogs (which are a subspecies, Canis lupus familiaris).

Domestic dogs, the Ethiopian wolf, African wild dogs, Dhole (Indian wild dog), Gray wolf, coyote and the jackals form a group of closely related canid species. Perhaps they should be called true dogs, because there are a small number of overgrown foxes with common names that include wolf or dog but they are not closely related to the true dogs. The true dogs all have 78 chromosomes, and DNA evidence suggests that they all evolved from a single common ancestor fairly recently. The foxes, OTOH, have very different chromosome numbers, and appear to be a more ancient group.

Therefore, theoretically, there is good reason to expect that the African wild dog should be able to hybridize with a wolf, even though there are some naysayers, among them the author of the Wikipedia article on canid hybridization. Apparently no one has tried to hybridize Lycaon with wolves or dogs, so we don't have a definite answer, one way or the other, on this question.

NO.....will never meet.