What the hell do I have snooping around here? And the survey says...

[Tilar]

I had one more row to put in the garden today before tonights rain comes in and near the end of the garden I came across these tracks. Waayyy too big to be a dog...

Here it is next to my size 12 boots.



One more.




They are strange in that there are always two tracks side by side. At first I thought it might be a black bear but the pics I find on the net do not match. Bobcat maybe?

[b5blue]

YUP  Cougar tracks! 

[Bob T]

YUP  Cougar tracks! 

Wow, big prints and depth of compression would suggest its fairly large too!
Maybe time for an infrared motion activated camera.

I guess Cougars are protected by law out where you are Tilar? Any of you're neighbors seen or heard anything with their stock missing?

[polywideblock]

the weeds have stood back up so you weren't right behind him ,big animal but.worst we have to worry about here is croc's, dingo's and feral pigs .
how close to the house is the garden? any kids/domestic pets? I'd be worried about a big ass  cat prowling around my back yard

[Mytur Binsdirti]

YUP  Cougar tracks! 

[Tilar]

This house is in town, Not at the farm. The garden is probably 50 feet from the house. There are kids in the area and people all around have pets. One neighbor said she heard what sounded like a high pitch screaming early this morning, but I didn't hear it. Nobody missing as far as I know though.   

YUP  Cougar tracks!  

Wow, big prints and depth of compression would suggest its fairly large too!
Maybe time for an infrared motion activated camera.

I guess Cougars are protected by law out where you are Tilar? Any of you're neighbors seen or heard anything with their stock missing?

I've thought about getting one of those cameras, might be time to do more than think about it. And I don't care if they are protected or not, if I catch it in the yard it's gonna end up dog food.

[Tilar]

Yeah Mark, she would make a great pet, but I don't think she would leave that deep of a paw print.     

[Budnicks]

I would say it's a wolf, way before any cougar track, a cougar or a bobcat track will have a big pad marking & wont show claws, they're retracted when they are walking or out when they want to attack something, just like a common housecat... were do you live that may help narrow it down some ?? my buddies Dogs Newfoundland & St. Bernard have feet easily that big or bigger, wolves have huge feet too....

[Budnicks]

Wolf tracks

[Budnicks]

I've seen both in my back woods in years past, neither one is something to mess around with... Call the Dept. of Fish & Game....

[Drache]

That is a canine track, I've tracked enough of them through the years for the bounty money. Either a large dog or wolf.

[Budnicks]

I had one more row to put in the garden today before tonights rain comes in and near the end of the garden I came across these tracks. Waayyy too big to be a dog...

Here it is next to my size 12 boots.



One more.




They are strange in that there are always two tracks side by side. At first I thought it might be a black bear but the pics I find on the net do not match. Bobcat maybe?

Those look like a double print too, they are known to put their back feet in the same tracks as their front feet when stalking pray, less scent & noise... I showed them to my neighbor, he's a Calif. Fish & Game Warden, he says probably a wolf or big dog too....

[Drache]

Dad and I were out hunting and walking down an old logging road. We got to the end and decided to turn back. Found these tracks over top of ours.

[A383Wing]

hows it feel to be "the hunted" now?

[Budnicks]

Dad and I were out hunting and walking down an old logging road. We got to the end and decided to turn back. Found these tracks over top of ours.

yeah erry feeling when something is stalking your butt... we aren't the top of the food chain everywhere...

[Tilar]

There are definitely wolves and coyotes both around here. I have them around the farm which is only 3 miles away but I've never seen them in town. The neighbor guy came over and he said it was some kind of dog tracks... Looks like a damn big dog to me. Your measurements up there are not far off. The pic where I have my shoe next to it, that track measures 4" wide and 5" long.

[Tilar]

I've seen both in my back woods in years past, neither one is something to mess around with... Call the Dept. of Fish & Game....

I did call and leave a message. I'll probably get a call Monday.

[Budnicks]

There are definitely wolves and coyotes both around here. I have them around the farm which is only 3 miles away but I've never seen them in town. The neighbor guy came over and he said it was some kind of dog tracks... Looks like a damn big dog to me. Your measurements up there are not far off. The pic where I have my shoe next to it, that track measures 4" wide and 5" long.

   

[oldgold69]

we have wolves and coyotes in Milwaukee  see them all the time  last we about two in the morning im in bed dead asleep  and a coyote tags a rabbit in my backyard  screaming like crazy as he carries it off     no better way to get woke out of a sound sleep    happens about twice a year

[BigBlackDodge]

Chupacabra!!!   

BBD

[Indygenerallee]

We have a "exotic feline rescue center" about 15 miles from my house and they have em' all Lions, Panthers, Cougars, Bobcats, Tigers. Anyway a few years ago people around the area started talking that they had seen a "cougar" in their yard or crossing the road. The rescue center would never admit that any ever escaped but 2 years ago during deer season a bow hunter in a tree stand (teacher at the high school) took a pic with his cell phone of a friggin' cougar below his tree stand  I would have shot it. But from what I have been told there are more "mountain lions" migrating north into our area anyway. idk but I sure would not want a encounter with anything like that.

[Tilar]

The Game Warden just left and he said it was a Coon Dog. I used to coon hunt when I was younger and never have I seen a dog leave tracks that big, but he swears that's what it is.

[Old Moparz]

Maybe someone is screwing with you. 


http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-footprint-shoes-maskull-lasserre/

[Tilar]

   I want a pair!   

[Drache]

Maybe someone is screwing with you. 


http://www.boredpanda.com/animal-footprint-shoes-maskull-lasserre/

friend had a pair like that but with moose prints...