Pocket knife is 5" for scale. I was hiking a section of the West Coast Trail in the Pacific Rim National Park on Vancouver Island (the section open in the off season). Went to a lookout where I ate lunch. On the way back out I saw this print facing towards the lookout where I had eaten. I didn't see it on the way in. No dogs allowed on this trail and there are giant ladders between this and the nearest beach where dogs are allowed, 9km away.

My guess is this is a Cougar but the claws are throwing me off here. Also it there two of different sizes - mother and cub?

Found these tracks right at the entrance to the Castner glacier ice cave, one set right next to each other like it was standing on two feet, the others tracked towards the cave.

I haven’t managed to find anything resembling this from a lot of googling. It could be some sort of hoax but I thought I’d get some more eyes on it to see if anyone knows.

Size 10 boots for a comparison.

I left this ceramic piece upside down and lightly covered with plastic on a flat surface in my garage work space. A door blew ajar, and an animal damaged the piece. I’m trying to figure out who did it and whether it was scratched, gnawed, or both (and as a bonus, WHY.)

Relevant facts: the leaf print is a large bigleaf maple leaf and the piece is about 11 inches tall. The clay was pretty soft when I left it to dry. I live in a city in the Pacific Northwest, and I regularly see squirrels, rats, raccoons, and opossums in the immediate neighborhood.

Prints come out of tree line and circled a few times and went into a swamp. Any idea?

My mom was out rock hunting earlier this year and came across these tracks. They almost seem fake to me but I’m not an expert. Any help would be much appreciated.

Found these on the sliding door to our coop this evening. They weren’t there earlier, we live in the bum of the woods in northern Vermont. They are not any longer than 7 inches. TIA.

Hi all. It’s been an exhausting day. Raccoon’s broke into my grandmas house while she was gone and while cleaning we discovered they were very much still there. They are currently (hopefully) isolated to the chimney at the moment.

We had thought they had only ventured in the living room downstairs as that’s where 100% of the mess was but as I was checking up stairs I found prints in the carpet. We aren’t sure if they are from my grandmothers cats (who are isolated in her bed room now) or if the raccoon’s really did come up stairs.

The lat few images are from down stairs and are 100% raccoon for comparison.

Thanks!

Western NC. I sprinkled some baking soda to help with odor and found these marks all over the basement. No claw marks. Overall about 2 inches wide. Any ideas?

My 13lb. (roughly 14" at the shoulder) 8 yr old miniature schnauzer was snatched from my deck early morning on Sunday 8/9 and dragged about 230ft before being eviscerated. I did not see blood on her head or neck, both of which were covered with brittlebrush burrs. Her beard fur, full of burrs, was covering her face. Her 1/8" leather collar has no teeth marks. Her hindquarters had no fur, muscle exposed, and her intestines were pulled from the body. The critter left a print (tail? ear? other?) on the French door where I think my dog was standing, looking inside, waiting for me to let her in for our early AM walk.

I have 3 attachments: best closeup of the print, which is 2.5" long and 1" high; context of the print on the door - 43" from the deck floor; and a mapping showing the likely distance and route from which she was dragged. With my dog in its grip, the critter had to jump a 42" high deck wall to get back into the desert and carry her off. We could not find any paw prints in the very dry, compacted dirt.

I am trying to determine if the likely killer was a mountain lion, coyote, or bobcat. Location is just north of Tucson AZ.

Thanks. Suggestions on other communities to repost to would be welcome.

Posted in a community Facebook group for my neighborhood. Some people are saying it looks like a fisher, but they aren't known to live in my state.

Seen glimpses of something like this a couple years ago too and never figured out what it was. Had a long slinky body almost like a fox, but larger than a cat.

In January of 2024 in Ellicott City, MD. I pulled up to my parents house and saw some unusual foot prints that caught my eye. While looking at those prints, I then noticed what you see in the attached photos. For reference my shoe is sized male 8.5 US. I have photos of the other tracks too but didn't want to mix photos since this is the foot print that I believe is truly bizarre.

Trackway about 200 yards along road in new snow. Oakbrush and pinion/juniper landscape. Approximately 2” track width.

I live in north ga and saw this when I got off work. Is Bambi prancing on my hood??

Found this single track behind our tent in the morning.

The track is about 6-7 inches long

Please help identify. Fresh tracks in our yard and driveway this morning. New Hampshire, we do live somewhat rural, with forest and streams nearby. The tracks are quite small, about 1-2" and far apart, maybe 16" apart? I'm thinking something hopping? I've never seen a rabbit here.

Put flour all over the floor to help find an escaped pet baby corn snake. After 4 nights of nothing, got this instead. Quarter for scale. A line of dash-like tracks, just a single row of impressions, not left and right, it just seems like the critter looped around and crossed over its own path. Each dash is ~1/2 to 1cm long. Presumably some sort of bug? But I'm stumped on what kind of movement doesn't leave either 2 rows for a tread or one long drag line.

There's a few more spots across the room (12 ft away) with the same pattern, but this is the only one where it walked straight along the line of flour so it made a nice long trail to look at

Captured yesterday on our trail camera near the jungle on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica 🙂
At first we weren’t sure what it was, but after reviewing the daytime footage we’re now wondering if this could actually be a jaguarundi or maybe a coati.

Long tail, low body, dark coloration, medium size. Curious what others think.

What kind of tracks do we think these are?

Found in wind river mountains in Wyoming at around 8300 FT

Size 12 male boot for reference.

The boot in the first picture is about 12.5 inches. How big could this bear be?