Help me identify this pawprint, please?

[MamaBelle5]

I found this circling my run today. It's somewhere in between the size of a housecat and a medium sized dog print. I don't know how clear it is, but it looks like it has 5 toes. I live in south central PA.

Thank you!

 

[Kusanar]

No claws showing so likely a cat. Either a large house cat or maybe a bobcat?

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

No claws showing so likely a cat. Either a large house cat or maybe a bobcat?

Not a cat of any kind. Too many toes.

 

[Kusanar]

Not a cat of any kind. Too many toes.

You're right... Looks like it would have to be in the weasel family for 5 toes.

I found this, depending on size would determine which it could be. I would say probably not the skunk due to the claws though.

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Knowing what kind of critters you HAVE there would help. (For instance where I am, we don't HAVE things like oppossums and raccoons. So knowing what you do and don't have can help narrow it down.) Also are all of the tracks roughly the same shape? (Some critters have a hind foot that is larger and differently shaped than the front feet. Others, the hind feet are the same shape as the fronts and smaller in size.)

 

[The Dapper Duck]

Something for scale would help, as would some context for where you found them. But looks to me like mink/marten/fisher. Scale and setting are the best way to sort those out, but in any case, keep your birds locked up tight.

 

[MamaBelle5]

It's getting too dark to take pictures now (and I'm not sure I can find an undisturbed one because I was following them to see where they led). They're about the size of an average housecat print, I guess. They came down from our front yard, walked past the coop and run and went back into the woods behind our house.


I'm thinking it's a weasel.

I live in Pennsylvania, so we have a bunch of different critters. I don't live too far away from water (a small creek) and right by a wooded area. So the options are essentially endless.

 

[MamaBelle5]

I lied, husband got a picture. Doesn't show scale though.

 

[cmom]

Put up a game camera if you have one. Most likely whatever it is has been around as most critters have fairly regular routines and routes and you may discover who the prints belong to. I love my cameras. Good luck...

 

[roosterhavoc]

I lied, husband got a picture. Doesn't show scale though.

Can’t tell the size exactly but they aren’t weasel or mink they’re way too big. They look like fisher especially with where you live.