Do you recognize these tracks

I say it is the elusive Jackalope.

On a more serious not, it looks like a Big Kitty. Bigger than a bobcat.

Only maybe about 3 dogs have a print as big as a wolf 4.5 long by 3.5 wide.
a GP, st bernard and a bloodhound

In the first picture the track is a full 6 inches long, same as the $1 bill. This picture was taken in my neighbors garden and there was a green tomato on the ground near the 2nd picture. We live in NC near I77 and I40 in what we call a rural area but it is heavily populated all around us. We supposedly do not have bears but I am of the opinion that is what made the foot print.

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isnt a bear track more rounded?

Bear looks like this:

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I see alot of young crabgrass, and the print is too narrow to be a cat. It's not a bear. It is a canine, but whether it's a large dog, coyote, or wolf, you really can't say.

I thought we had bears all over the state
I know we have them in my area, eastern nc. and a mountain lion was trapped 20 east of me

Bears will also travel
especially teenage bears looking for territory of their own

where is 77?
if it's 40 east of Raleigh, then, yea, you do probably have bears around

Could you send me a start of that little vine the dollar bill is growing on? When that vine gets as big as our morninglories, that sucker ought to be loaded. Also, if that is a rabbit, send me your address. I'd like to come huntin.

How close are you to the GSMNP? A few years back they reintroduced a number of Red Wolves in there. I don't know what became of the program. Those look like wolf tracks to me.

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Don't know where you're from but any mountain lions seen nearby? Possibly a teen aged mountain lion.

Too big for bobcat, dog or bunny. Once I looked at the second photo more carefully and got it oriented the right way, it looks like black bear to me.

Those are definitely bear tracks. North Carolina has more black bears than any other state in the lower 48, and also the largest. The biggest one ever killed in North America came from Eastern NC and weighed over 600 lbs. Size is judged by skull measurements since their weights fluctuate so much. A few years ago one was killed eithin 20 miles of me that weighed 800 lbs. Ive seen 3 in the last couple of years and made plaster casts of one that walked throuogh the garden

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The dog tracks i have had in my yard seems about that size and resembles it some. The neighbor has a chow and that is the one i think is coming around.

But I dont know but for one of them dollar bills multipled a few times, I will trap it for you ahhaahaha

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I believe it's a bear also. Growing up in Washington state, I've seen plenty of bear and cougar tracks. It's not feline. I don't ver recall seeing claws in a cougar track when walking in an unconcerned fashion.

I never did get that dollar.Musta got lost in cyber space.
I still say its a large dog.The track is just distorted much larger do the depth it sank into the soft ground.

ok i ain't bragging about my state or nothing but we grow them big in pa...


http://www.buckmasters.com/buckmaste...60308Bear.html

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this message has probably been edited to correct typos, spelling errors and to improve grammar...

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The shape of that track is the shape of a dog track. Bear tracks (as you saw) are wider in relation to their length. Cat tracks have rounded toes.

Without knowing your area it is hard to say whether it is one of the large domestic breeds eg Newfoundland or whether it is a wolf.

But if you don't like logical explanations you can call it a chupacabra and sell the photo on ebay. :baby04:

whoops, I'm back editing my post. Here's an article about track identification. From this you can tell that it isn't any variety of cat or bear, but (of tracks in the article) most resembles the coyote, only bigger.

http://cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_circulars/circ561.html