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Wolf Prints in the snow
« on: December 03, 2018, 01:42:12 PM »
A buddy of mine who has a cabin up in Okanogan by loop loop pass just sent me these pics.  The wolf pack was busy this morning.  They were the closest they have ever been to his place and he heard them howling around 5am.  This pic was taken 20 yards from his cabin door.  He is 6' 10" and that's his hand for size comparison.  Big tracks. 3rd time he's had wolf tracks around his place, first time within 100 yards.  He's been staying there this week and maybe they were curious. LOL

 

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2018, 02:08:30 PM »
Too small

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2018, 02:27:57 PM »
Too small

Maybe, the guy is 6 foot freaking 10 inches  :o 

His paw is probably twice the size of our more normal sized paws  :chuckle: 




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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2018, 02:36:59 PM »
Too small

They measured at 4 inches wide.  Not that small.

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2018, 03:07:56 PM »
It must be a coyote print then just like the state says. So get the gun out and shoot them coyotes.
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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2018, 03:17:36 PM »
It must be a coyote print then just like the state says. So get the gun out and shoot them coyotes.
I’m not trying to start anything and I get what you’re saying but I never understand when people say to shoot them because the state says it’s a yote, when the dog in question is in a WDFW recognized wolf pack area. Don’t think they would call it a yote?
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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2018, 03:25:16 PM »
It must be a coyote print then just like the state says. So get the gun out and shoot them coyotes.
I’m not trying to start anything and I get what you’re saying but I never understand when people say to shoot them because the state says it’s a yote, when the dog in question is in a WDFW recognized wolf pack area. Don’t think they would call it a yote?

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2018, 03:46:55 PM »
Pretty small.
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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2018, 03:47:56 PM »
I mean- I get what he’s saying if it was a wet-side dog. But that’s not the case here.
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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2018, 04:14:07 PM »
I mean- I get what he’s saying if it was a wet-side dog. But that’s not the case here.

I don't think you do get it. 

back a few years ago on HW we were having a lot more wolf debates and discussion, part of that discussion was the fact that WDFW would refuse to declare a dead cow as having been killed by a wolf when the evidence was clear, in one instance the only tracks around the carcass was that of wolves, and the wolves were howling just a few hundred yards away yet WDFW officers still could not declare it wolf depredation, they actually had to call olympia and ask the big bosses there if they could call it a wolf kill.  It started being a running joke that anything and everything killed that calf (rabid squirrel, badger, coyote...)   To add to the running joke one HW poster said he'd seen a wolf and called WDFW, they told him that there's no wolves in the area.....

Hunter calls WDFW

Hunter: "So if there's no wolves in the area they must in fact be coyotes so I'll shoot them"

WDFW:  "whoa wait, it's illegal to shoot wolves"

Hunter: " you just said there's no wolves in the area, so how could I get in trouble for shooting coyotes?"

So the joke is that it must just be large coyotes, and we can shoot them.   It's just another take on SSS

Still illegal weither WDFW say's there's wolves there or not.

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2018, 04:42:12 PM »
I mean- I get what he’s saying if it was a wet-side dog. But that’s not the case here.

I don't think you do get it. 

back a few years ago on HW we were having a lot more wolf debates and discussion, part of that discussion was the fact that WDFW would refuse to declare a dead cow as having been killed by a wolf when the evidence was clear, in one instance the only tracks around the carcass was that of wolves, and the wolves were howling just a few hundred yards away yet WDFW officers still could not declare it wolf depredation, they actually had to call olympia and ask the big bosses there if they could call it a wolf kill.  It started being a running joke that anything and everything killed that calf (rabid squirrel, badger, coyote...)   To add to the running joke one HW poster said he'd seen a wolf and called WDFW, they told him that there's no wolves in the area.....

Hunter calls WDFW

Hunter: "So if there's no wolves in the area they must in fact be coyotes so I'll shoot them"

WDFW:  "whoa wait, it's illegal to shoot wolves"

Hunter: " you just said there's no wolves in the area, so how could I get in trouble for shooting coyotes?"

So the joke is that it must just be large coyotes, and we can shoot them.   It's just another take on SSS

Still illegal weither WDFW say's there's wolves there or not.

 make since?

Ohhhhhhhh I see. Didn’t realize it was a running joke of a few years, with those particular instances fueling the fire. I’ve read it a few times and now I undertsand. My bad!

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2018, 04:54:21 PM »
Meeh, I don't know about that. Doesn't look big enough for a wolf or the wolf is pretty small.
Just not something you can look at and confidently tell it's a wolf...

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2018, 05:33:47 PM »
Meeh, I don't know about that. Doesn't look big enough for a wolf or the wolf is pretty small.
Just not something you can look at and confidently tell it's a wolf...

The dude is 6'10" according to the OP.   I'd bet he's got a pretty big hand making that track look smaller than it really is. 

not only that he's sort of "long arming" the pic, his hand isn't in the snow but held slightly above the snow, skewing perspective. 


so big hand + long arm effect = smaller looking track in the pic

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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2018, 06:01:12 PM »
KF I'm sure you could produce a few more and not be considered thread jackin.


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Re: Wolf Prints in the snow
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2018, 06:05:50 PM »
 :yeah:

the question isn't: "where are the wolves?"   but  "where aren't the wolves"


I get more excited not seeing wolf tracks than seeing them, maybe I should take pics of untracked snow  :chuckle:

 


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