They're points to build up character attributes on your wolves.
It's recommended to start with
1. Luck and perception for finding items and mushrooms in explore
2. Resolve, for accuracy of landing hits in battles, and battle for damage
2a. Agility, for dodging hits. Resolve and battle are more helpful to begin with though.
3. Stealth to have a better chance of coming across prey
The others are for various encounters in explore. Maternal is for females and determines how many more pups they're likely to have and charisma is for the same thing but on males
Dominance - Pack Happiness, Chasing Packs, chasing off the bird watcher
Stealth - Finding prey, Tracking prey on scent trails
Perception - Discovering things while exploring
Luck - Discovering things while exploring
Maternal - Number of pups born as applied to females
Social - Befriending familiars
Empathy - Healing animals
Morals - Fixing the Beaver Dam
Resolve - Offensive battle ability, accuracy
Composure - Raiding the Farmhouse
Wisdom - Discovering things while exploring, Identifying prey on scent trails, avoiding quicksand
Battle - Offensive battle ability, damage
Charisma - Number of pups born as applied to males
Agility - Defensive battle ability, avoiding hits/dodging. Fishing
Spirituality - Discovering things while exploring, plays into the temple in explore