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Title: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 05:29:48 PM
Was a nice sunny day today, -10 Celsius but above 0 Celsius in the sun.
So me and the wife went out for a walk with the dogs on the ice.
When i noticed some really big tracks  5 feet long steps  That's a
god damned big dog i thought ??? on closer inspection and tracking for a while
I'm not so sure it was a dog

(https://i.postimg.cc/V6njMNSD/thumbnail-IMG-9895.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/1nRn1srq)
Between my hand and the big track is a track after some ordinary Moose/ Bird dog And i dont have small hands i think size 11-12 on the gloves

(https://i.postimg.cc/Znm6LhpZ/thumbnail-IMG-9901.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Pp6Lt9SF)
about 5 feet between left and right frontpaw tracks,  ???




Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: WConley on March 03, 2020, 06:19:48 PM
Olaf the Sasquatch  :o :o
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: 428 GALAXIE on March 03, 2020, 06:28:36 PM
My neighbor has chihuahua that leaves that kind traces.

I don't know shit but pretty sure that's no wolf.

Wolverine?
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: TomP on March 03, 2020, 07:29:16 PM
Kangaroos, you have those there don't you?
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: 67428GT500 on March 03, 2020, 07:43:31 PM
Bear!?
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 07:53:37 PM
My neighbor has chihuahua that leaves that kind traces.

I don't know shit but pretty sure that's no wolf.

Wolverine?

What the hell do you feed your chihuahuas in Finland :o Must be some Russian special dog feed ;D ;D
No Wolverine some dog animal. Irl when you saw the track up close
it was clear it was a dog animal. Those "wider tracks in lower picture is from both
rear paws together it had made a wide turn there in high speed
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 07:57:12 PM
Kangaroos, you have those there don't you?

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 08:06:29 PM
Bear!?
The bear we have here leave much bigger tracks and they is past their bedtime with about
5 months. But we found fresh beartracks a few hundred yards away along the shore on the first snow
when i was 9-10 years nobody believed us till we caried home a paw inprint to the village
Afriend father came with his jack russel terrier to inspect the terrier put his tail between the legs and
run home when he felt the scent ;D
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 08:52:22 PM
Olaf the Sasquatch  :o :o

Well this summer i found bare foot tracks in the mud along this shoreline that was.....about four inches longer than mine
So not exactly bigfoot calibre but...Teenage bigfoot maybe ;D
And he had sunken much deeper than me in the mud so we taking at least 300 pounds,   He had followed a Deer along the shore.
Deer tracks vanished out in the water and so did his. So i back tracked him to see where he had landed with his boat.....No he came from the forrest ??? I live in a small village where i know everyone no man in that size here no one that walks barefoot in the forrest except my dad,me, and my sons. ??? So what the h... was going on there, and the dear tracks was a few hours fresh because my dogs started tracking it. There is a lot of mysterious disappearances of people they never had found around here. They found the backpack of one about half a mile away this Summer i think it was. The police helicopter started hovering over and around my hose one night so thought that was me they was after :o ;D But it was the backpack owner that vanished a few years ago they was looking for.
Not easy to get lost either you got the river the highway  a few miles inland the old higway, lot of logging roads so it takes
expert skills to get lost
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: machoneman on March 03, 2020, 09:20:48 PM
Heo, it was Loki back in wolf form!  ;)
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: chris401 on March 03, 2020, 09:38:04 PM
Looks like wolf toes to me. Looks like it was scratching the snow tracking a scent. Some 25 years back there was an Alaskan Timber Wolf (Alaskan something of a long name) wandering around Freestone, Texas down the road from my parents.  He stayed by Salem Cemetery by the tracks and creek. I do not remember it being a problem but it was eventually captured. It was thought to have escaped from captivity but was never claimed. The closest my brother got was when he crossed the railroad tracks. My brother said he was staring at trying to figure out what kind of calf he was till the wolf looked his way. The truck didn't bother the wolf much as he turned and walked down the tracks.
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 09:44:29 PM
Heo, it was Loki back in wolf form!  ;)

Well that's not a good sign :o The Ragnarök is acoming. Where is the dwarf blacksmiths when you need them ???
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 03, 2020, 10:05:52 PM
Looks like wolf toes to me. Looks like it was scratching the snow tracking a scent. Some 25 years back there was an Alaskan Timber Wolf (Alaskan something of a long name) wandering around Freestone, Texas down the road from my parents.  He stayed by Salem Cemetery by the tracks and creek. I do not remember it being a problem but it was eventually captured. It was thought to have escaped from captivity but was never claimed. The closest my brother got was when he crossed the railroad tracks. My brother said he was staring at trying to figure out what kind of calf he was till the wolf looked his way. The truck didn't bother the wolf much as he turned and walked down the tracks.

IRL you could se the paw with the toes clearly the intensive sunligth and white snow made the pics come out this way. tried to take pic of a better print but the wifes rugrats came running curious what i found and destroyed it before i was able to take a pick. The tracks was coming from the other side of the river as loong as i could see. I tracked it for a while and found a snowmobile without lisence plates in the bushes along the shore probably stolen inspected it and took pics and walked home and called the cops to let them know
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: 428 GALAXIE on March 04, 2020, 05:38:51 AM
I'm no hunter or any expert of animal traces.
Upper picture maybe lower impossible say I would need more perspective.
I have seen wolf traces once couple years back (those that I'm sure)
Spring time I get fooled by the sun it melts animal traces and they seem bigger what they were.Doesnt seem to be the case here.


Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: HarleyJack17 on March 04, 2020, 08:42:37 AM
Hard to tell from the pictures but "normally" dogs and bears will leave claw type marks since they have fixed nails. Cats will normally just leave pad marks.
I would say small bear or wolf. Wolfs tend to gallop/trot if covering distance, bears normally don't run unless chasing preyd or scared....Again, cold for a bear but that does not always mean they won't get out...maybe it's internal clock or temp gauge is wrong.....my money is on a wolf though.
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: 67428GT500 on March 04, 2020, 08:23:33 PM
I know seasonally speaking bears are uncommon. However, I had a cabin in Big Bear CA. and at times you'd see bear out when they should have been in hibernation.   Perhaps the Bear was up for a mid-slumber snack? 
Anyway, be careful out there and don't leave any food scraps in the trash close to the house.

                                                                       -Keith
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 05, 2020, 12:17:14 AM
Hard to tell from the pictures but "normally" dogs and bears will leave claw type marks since they have fixed nails. Cats will normally just leave pad marks.
I would say small bear or wolf. Wolfs tend to gallop/trot if covering distance, bears normally don't run unless chasing preyd or scared....Again, cold for a bear but that does not always mean they won't get out...maybe it's internal clock or temp gauge is wrong.....my money is on a wolf though.

It had troted across the river until it came close to this shore down from a house then it "accelerated" and turned away from the house Galopping down the river and in to the busches. This house have a dog cage with a pack of hunting dogs that maybe detected it and started barking scaring it away
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 05, 2020, 12:33:42 AM
I'm no hunter or any expert of animal traces.
Upper picture maybe lower impossible say I would need more perspective.
I have seen wolf traces once couple years back (those that I'm sure)
Spring time I get fooled by the sun it melts animal traces and they seem bigger what they were.Doesnt seem to be the case here.

 I guess you have a lot more wolfs where you live then we got. I never sen a wolf, two more times i have seen what i suspect to be tracks
I remember in the 80-90s there was in the news  about a Finnish guy along the Russian border that stumbled on a wolf going through his trash can early one morning. The wolf attacked him biting his arm he bite back in  the front leg of the wolf till he felt the bones cracking and the wolf let go of him and run away on three legs.
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: Heo on March 05, 2020, 01:34:01 AM
I went to town a couple of miles up the river yesterday. The lady owning
the clothes store the wife went to, thought she saw a wolf the night before
down by the river on the outskirts of town. She thought it was a runaway dog
so she stoped the car trying to call it in. But as soon as she opened the door it
took of.  Then she saw it in the head lights, how big it was, and the loong legs
so she thought it was a wolf. so who knows
Title: Re: Wolf?
Post by: gdaddy01 on March 05, 2020, 08:24:04 PM
was she the one that was calling her cat into the house , and it was a raccoon .  one of those eye glass commercials .