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Offline bigben

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« on: February 02, 2011, 07:50:10 AM »
what kinda tracks to you guys think these are?

this was in a creek bottom and houses where close by but no one owns dogs at these houses.  also no human boot tracks where found.  so what do you think made them?  I have my thoughts but wanted to see what you guys thought as well. 

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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 02:32:06 PM »
If they we not transposed on top of each other I would say it was a dog.. But they appear to be transposed and are wide unlike a coyotes tracks that appears to me like a spear head.. I would say since they are wide and transposed the front one looks like a bobcat.. 
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Re: tracks
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 02:58:31 PM »
definately not cat.  check out the attached picture.  one is of a bobcat track and the other is from the above picture.  on most canine tracks you can cleanly get an "X" between the toes and pad of the track.  on cats or felines you cannot get an "X" between the toes and the pad.  I am pretty sure this is either big red fox tracks or coyote tracks.  what leads me to believe they were red fox tracks was it was walking on top of the crust of the snow which was a difficult thing to do for anything over 20lbs on monday night.  if it was coyote I would have thought it would have broke through the crust. 
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Re: tracks
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 03:01:59 PM »
I say red fox as well because of the gait.  to close for a coyote and if you use the glove as reference not big enough for an average coyote.  But thats just a SWAG.
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Re: tracks
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 09:00:20 PM »
My guess is a fox  red/grey I don't know... But I find them all around Pittsburgh also...   
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 02:43:56 PM »
  This is a single animal, it was milling around on the ice...  It even follows me lol   
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 08:46:11 PM »
I believe those are red fox tracks. They're not from a gray.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2011, 10:41:04 PM »
I wasn't sure...   Thanks muttbuster
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Re: tracks
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 07:14:45 AM »
BB I'd say red fox
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