Critter ID ?

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

Seen this scat in the woods a couple of months ago. sorry all I could find for scale.
Then I found a 5 toe track a few days later, have heard about sightings of big cats and black bear not far from here in bum fuck mid east Tx.
And then today a big 4 toe track that doesn't look like dog. Damn big dog if it is the glasses are 5.5".
?

 

[1911hombre]

RUN.

 

[Makinchips208]

Looks like a bear might have stopped for a smoke and a poop? You didn’t do a taste test on the poop?

Cats don’t usually show claw tracks.

Maybe wolf tracks? Overlapped possibly to look like 5 claws instead of 4?

 

[hermosabeach]

I normally think bear prints have fatter fingers.

I'm not sure.

If rare, consider casting with plaster of Paris for the grand kids to see

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

RUN.

worried about my dog we were on his poop run and he sometimes disappears for a few mins. But always packing cause a lot of hogs been around.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

Looks like a bear might have stopped for a smoke and a poop? You didn’t do a taste test on the poop?

Cats don’t usually show claw tracks.

Maybe wolf tracks? Overlapped possibly to look like 5 claws instead of 4?

No wolf around that I have heard.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

All my game cams died need to get some more

 

[wvfarrier]

Looks like a black bear

 

[powdahound76]

Sure looks like a black bear track to me.

Never tracked a wolf and curious on the second one.

Big kitty tracks are different.

Late season doe hunt. Mid morning and packing out 2 deer.
First one out and on the way back for the second I ran across these that had come off a big hill and followed me for a bit.
That boot is right at 12” long

 

[Seventwenty]

Dog, the prints are overlapping to look bigger.

 

[Rodney65]

If you encounter it either try to stand really still or run really fast. It probably won't be able to see you very well having lost its glasses or have much endurance if it's a smoker.

 

[powdahound76]

NM, that top one is kitty track I think

Been a couple years since I had a bear track anywhere around….

 

[Laser1]

I’ve seen on game cameras and in person that Mexican red wolves are definitely in east Texas. I’ve seen them in both Sabine and San Augustine counties. Might be those.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

That 4 toe had some wieght on it , the sand cracking around it.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

14 posts and not one of you???

This place is going to hell…

Sirhr

 

[375fan]

I don't think it's a bear. I'm leaning towards canine family.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

14 posts and not one of you???

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This place is going to hell…

Sirhr

Ya got me

 

[supercorndogs]

I’ve seen on game cameras and in person that Mexican red wolves are definitely in east Texas. I’ve seen them in both Sabine and San Augustine counties. Might be those.

I have seen one in Colorado calling coyotes. They aren't really big. There are some documented killed in CO by coyote hunters.

 

[supercorndogs]

Dog, the prints are overlapping to look bigger.

This. I think the poop is people with peanut in it. if it turns white it's wild dog. If it doest its domestic dog.

 

[Rthur]

No wolf around that I have heard.

LOL
Large canine.
Dunno if the shit belongs to the tracks.
Have been fairly close to those fuckers outa Yellowstone.

R

 

[oneshot86]

That's from your drunk Asian neighbor after they ate your cat

 

[Thunderkok]

AI says 95% confidence on black bear

 

[mi650]

LOL
Large canine.
Dunno if the shit belongs to the tracks.
Have been fairly close to those fuckers outa Yellowstone.

R

I've had 3 Mastiffs, 1 currently. They leave big tracks, but not that big.

 

[Rthur]

I've had 3 Mastiffs, 1 currently. They leave big tracks, but not that big.

Have seen some I couldn't cover with my hand.
East of YS a bit.
Have seen cat, black bear, grizz and wolf tracks plenty.

R

 

[Jscb1b]

Track it down and kill it.

 

[Eostech]

Dog shaped pads and four claws so it's a canine.
Top is two dog prints on top of each other.

 

[Kickin45]

You say you were out with your dog? And he disappears?
Have you checked what his tracks look like?
Especially if you overlap 2?
Just sayin

 

[supercorndogs]

AI says 95% confidence on black bear

Once again proving, AI is retarded. I would guess it's a domestic dog that doesn't get walked enough from the length of the claws.

 

[wvfarrier]

Just as an fyi....cat tracks will not have claw marks as cats retract them when walking.

 

[supercorndogs]

I have seen claws on cat tracks on soft ground and in snow. Here are someone else's pictures of some domestic cat tracks. There were mountain lions tracks at the golf course here a few years back. CPW, then still game and fish found a couple with visible claws and insisted it was a dog. Don't get me started on people and their degree. He didn't even use his degree, he looked online and it said if it has claws it's not a cat track.

 

[diggler1833]

I agree with the "large canine" crowd.

Cat tracks aren't going to have claw prints. Black bear claws are usually longer and have angle to them (best term I can think of without coffee at 0530).

Soft ground makes everything appear larger.

You should see the size of some of the paws that livestock guardian dogs can have.

 

[Fx51LP308]

I"m on "Team Black Bear" on this one. I even saw them roaming about the sub-division of my old PUD in the PRNJ.

When the population became "overgrown" in given year, the State would authorize a limited "Bear Season." You bought tags from the State and go hunting" for like a month or so. Usually in the middle of Autumn.

 

[supercorndogs]

Well that "bear track" has a mysterious extra claw growing from the second toe from the bottom of the picture. Suspiciously right where a dog claw would be if it were two dog tracks over lapped.

 

[Norther]

Canine for sure. Definitely not bear.

 

[supercorndogs]

 

[Ronws]

I would not smoke cigarettes rolled with bear scat. Personal preference, ya'll understand.

 

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

Dog, the prints are overlapping to look bigger.

This, went and looked around this morning and there were other overlaps that were not as well aligned.
That explains the 4 toes anyway.
eta, I can see it on the 5 toe print now.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

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That’s “Twackin” in case anyone is interested!

Sirhr

 

[Alphatreedog]

Might be Cougar tracks .

 

[918v]

It might be a genetically engineered pre-flood polecat.

 

[Aftermath]

Seen this scat in the woods a couple of months ago. sorry all I could find for scale.
Then I found a 5 toe track a few days later, have heard about sightings of big cats and black bear not far from here in bum fuck mid east Tx.
And then today a big 4 toe track that doesn't look like dog. Damn big dog if it is the glasses are 5.5".
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SCAT: Black bear in the neighborhood of 150 lbs
Tracks: Not so sure.

 

[supercorndogs]

Tracks=dog. Clearly one printed on another. Undoubtedly no question 100% without a doubt. The line on the bear track I posted was show orientation of the pad to toes. A dog track makes X with its pad on the bottom two toes in the sides and two toes in the top.

If you hold your hands out palm down and look. Your longest finger is your middle finger. If you look at cat tracks their toes are oriented so the middle finger is longest, and also arranged in front of the pad more like a bear.

If you are used to looking at them, they don't look similar.

 

[Thunderkok]

I have never seen a dog that leaves 5 claw prints

 

[375fan]

I have never seen a dog that leaves 5 claw prints

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Hmmm...looks like a hind landing in on a front to me. Basing that on the pad pattern.

 

[Mr. Z]

Go and physically look at your dogs paws. Front splays out pretty even and rear has longer toes in the middle.

Sure looks like a rear stepped juuust forward and right of center on top of front to me. I go as far as to say left/left.

 

[Eostech]

I have never seen a dog that leaves 5 claw prints

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Look next to the 4th claw print and there is another, most creatures don't have six claw prints either.
That back foot of the dog is canted or has uneven wear on the claws which is not uncommon for domestic dogs.