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marsonite
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Here’s another mystery creature for you. I got this a few years ago some 20 miles north of Duluth. The feet look like a snowshoe hare but the ears don’t. What do you think?
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cowdoc
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South end of a north bound snootzer dog
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Duckman
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That Yorkie won’t last long up there.
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acanoer
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Most likely a coyote could be a similar colored furry dog.
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Savage Voyageur
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Looks sorta like a collie
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gravelroad
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Oooh, do I hate to suggest this possibility:
Never heard of the Minnesota raccoon dog, either? We are lucky
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KarlBAndersen1
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Bearpath9: "Cat- feral or domestic"
Yep.
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heavylunch
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I say house cat.
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MReid
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KarlBAndersen1: "Bearpath9: "Cat- feral or domestic"
Yep."
Yep
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fishonfishoff
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Tasmanian Devil?
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smoke11
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Definitely a ChupaCabra!
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jcavenagh
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given color of the ears and their shape, I would guess a fox
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MikeinMpls
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A fox or a collie. Weird to even compare the two, but I see a fox in the ears, but a collie in the coat.
Mike
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okinaw55
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Bigfoot! .. no fox i think.
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marsonite
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I wish I knew what it was, but sorry I don't. A cat is a possiblity, but never seemed that likely. It's pretty deep woods, a mile and a half to the nearest habitation. All the years I spent snowshoeing, I never saw a single cat track. Lots of bobcats, fox, coyotes, wolves. But then unlikely things do have a way of happening.
Here's another shot from the same setup. So the mystery critter isn't that big.
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Bearpath9
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I thought "cat" right away when I saw it. Looking closer, it was the hind foot and ears that convinced me. Don't know if I'm right, but it is fun to see what everyone else thinks.
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sns
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I'd bet big that you've got a photo of a Gray Fox.
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Voyager
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My guess too is gray fox, maybe a few months old.
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mirth
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I was going to say cat, but now that I look at some photos I'm on #TeamGreyFox
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mrballast
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A Lynx? I think what seems to be tail fluff is just the effect of slow shutter speed.
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shock
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We had a little guy come into camp in the SAK , Grey Fox
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marsonite
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Pinetree: "Short legged animal with a ton of fur. Not a wolf for sure and I don't think a coyote or grey fox either.
What time of year was the picture?"
In the spring before green up. April or May.
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1lookout
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Rear end of a Snowshoe Hare. Kwazy Wabbitt.
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Pinetree
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Short legged animal with a ton of fur. Not a wolf for sure and I don't think a coyote or grey fox either.
What time of year was the picture?
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Pinetree
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Here is a grey fox
To those who said grey fox-here is a grey fox.
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prettypaddle
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I'd say coyote. To me the tail looks much too short to be a cat or a fox. I found this website with a straightforward comparison of foxes and coyotes:
http://foxsurvey.ucdavis.edu/id.html
In your picture I think I see a black tip to the tail but (apparently) if it were a grey fox the tail would also have a black stripe running down its length. I've never seen a grey fox but all the descriptions I've found online include the black stripe on the tail. I love a good mystery.
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LindenTree
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Fox or dog?
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Bearpath9
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Cat- feral or domestic
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