What animal owns these tracks?

[monarc23]

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gah! i hope they dont come near your critters

 

[redhen]

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gah! i hope they dont come near your critters

yeah..i know!....i wonder if they would go after a goat?.....

 

[Mahonri]

Lynx or Bobcat.

 

[monarc23]

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I'd vote for fox, but the paws are way too big, and the more I look at the way the paws sink into tthe snow I really do see them as cat tracks, again the onlything throwing me off is the claws but i've followed the tracks and found some without claw marks. So all I can do is hope that it is a bobcat and hope it likes my cats lol!

As for free ranging, all my birds are either fenced in or penned up high in rabbit hutches....so im good unless something is persistant like fishers are...and idont want a fisher! LOL! But luckily the paws look nothing like fisher tracks.

Back to the fox...i've seen their cute lil dainty paw tracks through our yard before, they like to walk up our yard walk for some reason lol! I dont appreciate them being around here either but living in teh woods thats what ya gotta deal with i guess lol

 

[Wolf-Kim]

If it is a bobcat, be aware. Bobcats around here LOVE to eat domestic cats. I personally knew a lady who lost over 10 pet cats, to a bobcat that found them easy prey.

They never got the opportunity to shoot the bobcat, but one evening while it was chasing yet another one of her pet cats, both the bobcat and house cat were struck and killed by a car. She never lost another cat to wild predators after that.

I would look into purchasing a game camera to place in your yard. You have so many wild visitors, none of the prospects looked good. LOL Fox, fisher, bobcat, coyote!?!?! You don't want or need any of those. Buy a game camera, find the culprit and make sure the chooks are locked up tight.

-Kim

 

[Klorinth]

Are the tracks in line or are they in a double line? Means different things. Dogs, coyotes, and cats all walk mostly in a double line like we do. A fox tends to walk in line.

I've tracked bobcat, cougar, and ocelot. It just doesn't feel like a cat. Skunk isn't right either. I haven't seen fisher tracks so I can't say there. Isn't raccoon either of course.

Sorry, i can't help further.