My wife just sent me these. Please no “wife’s foot” comments/jokes. She just found these in my backyard, behind my 6’ privacy fence. Before you guys ask, I have a little more than an acre, in a suburb north of Dallas about half an hour.
At first I thought coyote, but A) there aren’t any big holes in my fence and B) it looks like the claws retract (which I know could just be shitty impression of the foot into the mud).
I know it’s not our dog because her feet aren’t that big. We don’t have any strays running around my area, and I don’t know of any house cat species with feet that big (but again, don’t really have any strays). I mean is it possible for a coyote to clear a 6’ fence? I know some dogs can, but I’ve never seen a coyote jump that high.
I’ve seen coyotes walking down the main street that passes my house, and bobcats have been spotted in the town next to mine. But I haven’t heard of either actually going into someone’s backyard snooping around. We’ve had rabbits, skunks, opossums, the occasional trash pandas, but nothing like this before.