Can you remove your lead wolf from the Breeding Male role but still keep him as lead?

I recently got this puppy that would make a good breeding male, but I am attached to my lead wolf and would hate to get rid of them early by accident. So can you remove your lead from being a breeding male without retiring them completely? I'm pretty sure you can but would just like confirmation.

Edit: also, tag on question, do heirs keep their level once made lead or do they reset to level one once you start playing them?

Yes, you can.

You have to use the "remove breeding male" button in your "Breeding male settings" page. Don't use the "Retire" button on his page.

After paying the GC fee, your lead will still be the leader and he will have a banner at the end of his page saying that he has been a breeding male and that he can be set as a breeding male again.

Maybe before doing it, check out the bugbox to see if there are actually some bug related to this, so you won't find yourself stuck

About the level, I'm not sure. I think they will be set back to level 1. Again, I'm not sure what happen to their stats and level

Alright, thank you for your input!