Calling All Wild Life Experts...
Please help me identify this print. If it is what I would guess it is...then I will not longer shoot at a new favorite location of mine. Dang it! I should have taken more pictures of the other hundreds of prints. There were Deer, Elk...and other large creatures I wouldn't even know what to guess were. It would have made a great field trip for biology students.
ETA: Mystery Solved in Comments. Someone has one Mother of a Dog. Who by the way needs a pedicure!
15 comments:
okay, so maybe I should have googled it first. Because now I am thinking im a bit paranoid.
um... so where was this??
my guess would be a large dog, coyote, or fox... but could be otter or something like that too...
we have all of those here
is it close to water?
look like a cougar! or we could say large cat!
pretty sure its a dog track...
Ian says COUGAR ... and he wants to know where you were.
I thought it was a cougar too. It was huge! However everything I read up on says that cougar tracks usually dont have claws. That's more a sign of a large dog, wolf, etc.
The only time cougars show there claws are when they are running or pouncing...which could be very possible since there were tons of other wild game tracks there.
We were at the reservor. It looks like all the tracks were made when the mud was wet and then we got a dry spell...because they are all in there like cement. Very cool.
looks like a bear to me. I'll ask Kirby what he thinks.
Michelle
I'm sending it to my dad...he has seen plenty of cougar tracks in the blue mountains during elk season...
I thought the same thing about the claws...
My first thought was a bear but I am not sure you have bears there and of course I have not ever seen a bear track. Be careful if you go there again.
Love, Mom
Bears have 5 pads and claws.
my dad says it's for sure a dog track.
a cat track would be much rounder.
***just for reference my dad was a science teacher and has a Masters in biology/science and has a ton of background in tracking and idetifying animal tracks in our area.
Very glad that its not a cougar track. lets all pray I don't caome home with any pictures of cougar tracks on out adventure this weekend.
My first guess was a cougar.
But you never know! My dog never gets his nails clipped... maybe i'll go make him step in mud and look at his print!
I'm just glad you didn't find a dead body out there. What are you thinking going to that creepy place? Just the thought if it makes me tremble! :)
Brian says dog!
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