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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:08:59 PM

Title: Wolf print?
Post by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:08:59 PM: Or something else?
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Post by: wolfbait on June 26, 2014, 10:11:14 PM: Looks wolf to me
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Post by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:11:56 PM: Sorry for the rotation. Try this
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Post by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:22:59 PM: Try again
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Post by: KFhunter on June 26, 2014, 10:26:34 PM: It looks K9, and big. All I can tell ya.

I've seen a lot of wolf prints, and you need a whole section of tracks to determine for sure.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:39:12 PM: Can't seem to orient it properly. Sorry. Left side is top. Turn your head left.

Well I didn't see any "I'm walking my dog footprints" and though this isn't exactly an area people hike. So either a yote or wolf..?
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: KFhunter on June 26, 2014, 10:49:24 PM: Defiantly 100% not a yote.

It's a big print, but there's quite a few large breed dogs that could leave a print like that. In determining a wolf track it takes a series of prints to measure a stride and how the prints land. Even then it's not conclusive.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:53:17 PM: So possibly a feral dog?
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Post by: villageidiot on June 26, 2014, 10:59:11 PM: Depends on location too. If very near a road might be a dog. If. Out in the woods likely wolf. Although wolves like to travel roads if not much traffic.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: KFhunter on June 26, 2014, 11:00:25 PM: Quote from: Bean Counter on June 26, 2014, 10:53:17 PM
So possibly a feral dog?

I just stuck a dollar bill over the picture and it's pretty dang close to the same size, so it looks to me a lab sized dog could have made that print.

So ya, feral dog could have made that print - but I don't have intimate knowledge of the area so it's a crap shoot.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: Heredoggydoggy on June 27, 2014, 12:14:03 AM: A Dollar bill is almost exactly 6 inches long. I'd say Wolf. Very few dogs leave a pawprint that big, and the few that do wouldn't be out there anyway. :twocents:
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: Bean Counter on June 27, 2014, 01:13:32 AM: Quote from: villageidiot on June 26, 2014, 10:59:11 PM
Depends on location too. If very near a road might be a dog. If. Out in the woods likely wolf. Although wolves like to travel roads if not much traffic.

Deep, deep in the Forest. 1/2 mile from gravel road.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on June 27, 2014, 05:25:33 AM: Thats my dogs tracks.
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Post by: sirmissalot on June 27, 2014, 05:49:33 AM: My lab weight 103 pounds and is not overweight, he's big and lanky and his tracks are huge especially in the snow or mud. I take him hiking with me everywhere I legally can. I always laugh to myself at how many people probably see his tracks and think wolf!

The wolf tracks I've seen in Wyoming Idaho and Montana have always been very large, similar to a good size cougar which I'd say would be about 3/4 of the length of your dollar bill. Of course there are small wolves too, so it doesn't rule out what left the track in your picture, certainly could have been a young wolf.
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Post by: AspenBud on June 27, 2014, 07:06:08 AM: If the tracks meander all over the place it's a dog. If they're more of a straight line they are most likely a wolf or coyote.
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Post by: wolfbait on June 27, 2014, 08:39:06 AM: From what I have seen, wolf tracks seem to be wide and a bit longer then a dog, with dogs being more rounded.
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Post by: KFhunter on June 27, 2014, 09:05:18 AM: I had a Brittany dog with me, she left tracks right next to the wolf track in the center of the image, just to the left. Hard to see in the picture, her tracks are about the same as a coyote.
You could almost put her track in one toe of the wolf print.

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=139850.0;attach=283051;image)
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: wolfbait on June 27, 2014, 09:10:55 AM: Perfect example KF, thanks for posting :tup:
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Post by: Bean Counter on June 27, 2014, 12:05:32 PM: I live in Arizona. This would be a Mexican Grey wolf, canis lupis baileyi, which is said to be smaller than the Timber wolf.
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Post by: bobdog86 on July 01, 2014, 06:18:07 PM: Looks like it very well could be. Seems like every wolf track i've encountered, and that's not very many, has been an absolute no-brainer, no doubt, "holy sheep crap look at that" kind of track.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: KFhunter on July 01, 2014, 06:26:04 PM: wolf or domestic?
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Post by: KFhunter on July 02, 2014, 10:52:21 AM: since no one wants to guess, it's a domestic print.

Made by a BOZ Shepard.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: AspenBud on July 02, 2014, 11:12:11 AM: The problem with dog prints is they are all over the map by virtue of breeding practices. Some will look similar to a wolf, some won't.
Title: Re: Wolf print?
Post by: wolfbait on July 03, 2014, 06:57:33 AM: Quote from: Bean Counter on June 27, 2014, 12:05:32 PM
I live in Arizona. This would be a Mexican Grey wolf, canis lupis baileyi, which is said to be smaller than the Timber wolf.

Don't you mean the USFWS Fake wolf? Some of the mutts that the USFWS bred up had so much dog in them their tails curled up, and of course had to be shot. The first thing they did with their fake wolves was dump them in the middle of cattle country, which they later admitted as not being too smart.