✅ SOLVED Coyote or big dog footprints in the snow?

[Mud Hut]

These were out in my yard this morning. Coyote? Big dog?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

That would have to be a huge coyote, so I think large dog.

 

[smallfoot]

Very big for a coyote. What part of the country re you in?

 

[MKW]

Coyote tracks are generally longer, front to back, than they are wide, so not a coyote track. Probably a dog.

 

[Plug N Play]

Dang ... I hope it's a dog.

 

[Fat]

Follow its tracks to a pee pole. Cover it’s sent with yours, it will come back.

 

[Mud Hut]

Very big for a coyote. What part of the country re you in?

Western part Virginia outside Monterey.

 

[Mud Hut]

Dang ... I hope it's a dog.

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Nice illustration. Thank you.

 

[smallfoot]

Large dog probably...If you had been in wolf country maybe something else.

 

[Mud Hut]

Thank you all.

 

[RTR]

Western part Virginia outside Monterey.

Coyotes here are much smaller

 

[Mud Hut]

Coyotes here are much smaller

A local farmer said two "healthy" coyotes that were as big as "big German Shepherds" killed one of his new born calves.

 

[Tpmetal]

up here in western ny, we have huge coyotes which have bred with red wolves and dogs. they call them coy wolves. They run at the top end around 75 lbs. They can sometimes have the wider foot print. That being said, unless you have baby hands it would have to be a pretty big male

 

[Mud Hut]

up here in western ny, we have huge coyotes which have bred with red wolves and dogs. they call them coy wolves. They run at the top end around 75 lbs. They can sometimes have the wider foot print. That being said, unless you have baby hands it would have to be a pretty huge one. Not impossible but I am thinking a dog is more likely

That glove was the only thing I had for size reference at the time. It's a regular adult size cheap brown Jersey glove I buy at a convenience store.

 

[RTR]

up here in western ny, we have huge coyotes which have bred with red wolves and dogs. they call them coy wolves. They run at the top end around 75 lbs. They can sometimes have the wider foot print. That being said, unless you have baby hands it would have to be a pretty big male

Yes I've seen them in upstate NY ,as big ,if not bigger, than a full grown Sheppard.

 

[RTR]

A local farmer said two "healthy" coyotes that were as big as "big German Shepherds" killed one of his new born calves.

Anything is possible.A few years ago at noon (while coming out of the woods from deer hunting) a Mt. Lyon was standing in the center of a old dirt road,about 70 yards from me.

 

[dozer dan]

Just because your DNR says there’s no wolves in Virginia don’t take their word for it. There’s a push to bring back wolves where there should be none and it’s kept hush hush until the agenda is complete. Where I live there were a lot of hunters and ranchers that knew the wolves were making a comeback but the media refused to report on it.

 

[releventchair]

Not sure what they're up to in your locale , here in the midwest yotes are pairing off.
Older ones more likely to be hanging together in pairs as a result. And if your tracks were a yote , it would likely be an older one. And a jumbo!

A domestic canine is suspected.

 

[Gold Maven]

dog

 

[Mud Hut]

I sent the pics to a wildlife guy I know in Wyoming and he sent me the pic below. He thinks it's a coyote print.

Whatever it was, it is a good sized beast!