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Offline jerad188

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what kind of tracks are these?
« on: November 16, 2012, 09:17:03 AM »


 

There are by the water puddles and dumpster at my work every time I go look. Bigger then a house cat!
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2012, 10:27:12 AM »
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2012, 11:05:12 AM »
Domestic Dog is my guess.
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2012, 11:58:13 AM »
Hmm there's no houses to close.
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2012, 04:19:44 PM »
top one looks like a dog but the lower ones look like a cat.JMO!! Are they the same prints?
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2012, 04:38:28 PM »
Same tracks. Just one set bigger. Make your pointer finer touch your thumb and that's how big around the print is
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2012, 05:00:27 PM »
Now that I have a size reference I agree that its a bobcat.  I thought it was a much larger track but couldn't figure out why there where no nail marks. 
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2012, 08:07:42 PM »
I think they are house cat.
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2012, 05:45:21 AM »
I am pretty sure they are both cat. Its hard to tell from a few tracks but with any dog you should be able to lay an X between the toes and pad. I got a pic of it at home.
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Re: what kind of tracks are these?
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2012, 10:19:00 AM »
Cat tracks, now as for what kind of cat, its difficult to understand without knowing where you are. As for the size (finger/thumb loop) that could be either.
Typically domestic cats prints are smaller than a bobcat, but I have seen pretty large feral Toms that leave large traks.
If its around dumpsters, I would tend to lean towards feral cat more so than Bobcat. But if Bobcats are common around the area, it could very well be just that.

The biggest ways to tell the difference between feline and canine tracks is as Ben said the X being able to be drawn between the toes and pads. Also some other distinctions are cats have a 3rd lobe on the rear edge of the heel pad. Dogs heel pad kind of looks like a triangle with the sides caving in. Most of the time if you see toe nails in the prints, its a dog as cats retract their claws except when running/climbing or pouncing
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