Wolf print?

[Bean Counter]

Or something else?

[wolfbait]

Looks wolf to me

[Bean Counter]

Sorry for the rotation. Try this

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[KFhunter]

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.   

[Bean Counter]

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..?

[KFhunter]

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.

[Bean Counter]

So possibly a feral dog?

[villageidiot]

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.

[KFhunter]

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.

[Heredoggydoggy]

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.   

[Bean Counter]

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.

[Skyvalhunter]

Thats my dogs tracks.

[sirmissalot]

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.

[AspenBud]

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.