After who knows how long of displaying a dead wolf there, when I got back I tried to take it down, but it seems like I NEED to have a wolf featured there now. So I switched it to another wolf in my pack... Only she's dead now too. And I would really just not have any wolf there right now to be honest. But as mentioned it seems a wolf needs to be featured. It won't just let you clear it the same way you can Co-Leaders.
Like I said I am fairly certain the answer is no here, but I didn't think I would be the first person to face this problem... So I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed some sort of trick to removing them before I went and looked for/ made a suggestion for this.
EDIT:: I hope it's clear that by featured wolf I am talking about the Spotlight wolf on alliance pages. The word spotlight was escaping me before.. Went to check what it was actually called just now.