Here’s a fun subject – what about werewolf hands? Can werewolves with hands use their hands? What about werewolves who turn into giant with wolves wolf paws? Can they use those as hands?
Obviously, as always, this is from a folklore perspective and is not meant to reflect all werewolf portrayals in popular culture.
Werewolves in legend remain intelligent regardless of their form, nearly always (which is something that makes them so terrifying), and there have been many examples in folklore of werewolves using their hands. Or, if they have paws, even using their paws as hands. Stories aren’t always super specific about “does the werewolf have human hands?” and may instead be using “paws” to describe werewolf hands even if they have human fingers.
As an aside, have a handy post regarding werewolf appearances, although again, folklore is not always super descriptive and specific like audiences expect today.
A prime example of the hand usage concept is the werewolves of Ossory legend, about a monk who met two werewolves on a road. In it, it is specified that the priest, even after the werewolves speak to him, is only convinced that the werewolves are human beings after he sees one of the werewolves use “his front paws as hands” to peel back the wolf skin on the other werewolf and reveal her human form.
A few other examples exist in assorted other legends and accounts. Some come from that age wherein werewolves were being turned to insane beings of evil (I have literal tons of posts on this subject). For instance, we have a werewolf who slew someone and then dragged her off “with his hands” that are mentioned to be “seemingly paws.”
In Chinese legend, werewolves blatantly use their hands and/or paws (it is somewhat unspecified). We see werewolves capable of opening doors and opening windows. For more on Chinese werewolves and how awesome they are, here is a post on amazing werewolf grandmas (who did both of the aforementioned feats).
So the answer is yes. Werewolves do make use of their hands. And yes, I have actually been asked this question before.