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Another advantage of digigrade feet is that the werewolf is more swift on its feet, try standing on your toes and running amazinly it works and you run faster =P =D
...watch any human runner NOT trying to do this, and you'll see that they naturally push off from their toes. ;) It's only the heel ...

*thinks* Because they have a greater proportion of rod cells (the purely light-sensing cells), wolves are thought to have better night-vision than a human, but likely can't see colour as well as a human as they're deficient in cones - I read that they probably see yellow through blue quite well, but ...

I think I see what you're getting at - the spine on a human goes into the skull from underneath, but on a wolf the spine and skull connect from behind, so the configuration would probably be tricky if you wanted to NOT favour one sort of locomotion over another - if the spine/skull is humanlike ...

(Just from an inveterate lurker... ;))

If the designers are going for a hybrid of wolf and human, then the bust would diminish, surely - given that canids only have teats when they're lactating? Although by that same token that'd require more breasts, given canids have more teats, and I couldn't ...

It will be partial in the sense that the foot retains the same proportions of a wolf's foot while keeping the same thickness of a humans foot as well. However, the heel has to be in the air completely.
...I read this more as "reminiscient of human foot walking on tiptoe" than "full wolfish foot ...