king county possible wolf pack. false alarm. big dog found in wood.

[asl20bball]

Huge prints, most likely dog but you never know. Never did hear where they were seen in KC......??

[WABONEHNTR]

Wolves were released up the middle fork of the snoqualmie in the 80's-90's.  I have been told by the game dept.  They were said to have died off or shot.  I used to see some huge gray black dogs/wolves just out of snoqualmie chasing elk in that time frame.  So yes, I do believe there can be wolves in king county.  I have seen them. 

[Axle]

errr uhhh, Mulehunter, aren't you supposed to have a wedding ring on your finger?
Any wolf in King county should be down town Seattle and Olympia and clean up where cleaning up needs to take place. Then maybe we can get our ungulates back.
Me thinks it will get worse before it will get better.

[boneaddict]

I would believe anything.  Looking at these particular tracks what strikes me is the acute lack of stride.  Wolves don't tend to walk or stroll, they tend to jog, and they tend to have a much longer stride.  Thats hard to determine in the pics.  

[mulehunter]

I would believe anything.  Looking at these particular tracks what strikes me is the acute lack of stride.  Wolves don't tend to walk or stroll, they tend to jog, and they tend to have a much longer stride.  Thats hard to determine in the pics.  

Agreed.  The Pic I took this morning. It has two way forward and back. there is two other trax washed off by someone car or truck on their way to work. It has to be four or so.

I hope I am wrong.... I remember how Wolf walk, Run, and playing way I can tell how Tracks look like.

Lookout Pack Male Trax is Smaller than one what I cut today this morning.     Tracks werent there Sunday evening around 9ish and So I believe it wasnt a Dog.

I am going add two pictures from last year.  Good Example  how to look between King County Tracks and Look Out Pack Tracks.

It only has very tiny blanket of snow in this spot and rest of them all gone. Hard for me to prove it.

By the way I sent info to G.d. and two bio and one musketshoot Tribe Bio. I expect them to call us back if they feel important or not.

Mulehunter

[grundy53]

Hope they are dog..... 

[boneaddict]

The stride on that last pic looks  definately wolf. YIKES  You've got yourself a problem.   Man that is a good sized track.

[boneaddict]

I wasn't paying attention.  Those are the lookout ones.  I get it.   Yep, thats what I mean. 

[mulehunter]

Hope they are dog.....  

Agreed. I hope its a just big dog.  Gamedept has been email back forward so he will keep track on those area and keep open ear or eye on tracks. They possible travel thur black diamond or cumberland or rear cedar fall or going up east cascade or  head to snoq hancock. Who knows where they are.

I hope to not bother u people, wish it would just a big dog.  I drove by at 9pm sunday not there as i know for sure and on monday morning I cut it at 430 am. Its obviouly not dog.

Mulehunter

[jeepasaurusrex]

Time to set up a few trail cams in that area....

[Widgeondeke]

the first pic has tracks going in 2 directions. 2 seperate sets of tracks and the strides/patterns are similar to the Look out pics. Hmm ?     They are awful bid tracks and with long claws.
Like Jeepasaurusrex said "time for a trail cam"

[grundy53]

Hope they are dog.....  

Agreed. I hope its a just big dog.  Gamedept has been email back forward so he will keep track on those area and keep open ear or eye on tracks. They possible travel thur black diamond or cumberland or rear cedar fall or going up east cascade or  head to snoq hancock. Who knows where they are.

I hope to not bother u people, wish it would just a big dog.  I drove by at 9pm sunday not there as i know for sure and on monday morning I cut it at 430 am. Its obviouly not dog.

Mulehunter

Your probably right. I'm just trying to be optimistic...

[Alchase]

I noticed when my border collie walks her back paws overlay the tracks of her front paws so you rarely see a clean track. Is this typical of dogs? I know bears do that sometimes.

[Jack Diamond]

as a kid about 1964, we had a hound hunter named Cougar Martin that would hunt bear and cougar on our cow outfit in the Selleck,Elkcoal and Kanasket areas. he claimed there was wolves in the area at that time, but he allowed with both watersheds, the general public would never know they were there. Nate Green out of Enumclaw was the Game Warden at that time,and claimed the same thing, in fact he said he had seen 2 out with our cattle at Kanasket.Joe Monahan was the chief forestor for the city of Seattle at cedar falls, and said he had seen wolves in the Taylor creek area of the watershed above Selleck, and at Eagle Lake.
My Guess probably been there all along, who knows.
We never lost as much as a calf from predators, except the 2 legged variety!

[BIGINNER]

I noticed when my border collie walks her back paws overlay the tracks of her front paws so you rarely see a clean track. Is this typical of dogs? I know bears do that sometimes.

IT LLOKS LIKE THE TRACKS THAT OVERLAP ARE GOING IN OPOSITE DIRECTIONS