Big Tracks in Texas

[RightArm]

It's actually a Giant Chupcabra. Much more rare than the standard chupacabra. It is only found in certain parts of Texas when the weather starts getting cooler. It's rumored that Sasquatches keep them for protection. If you see a Giant Chupacabra, you'll never see the BigFoot. You may be killed, but either way, the Bigfoot will be forwarned that you are in the area. Strange thing about the tracks, however. Usually the tracks are swept from the areas where humans are known to travel. You're lucky to be alive.

 

[DeadAye]

Holy Cow!
That's Big Foot's dog's paw print!!!

Call The *Science* Channel - They'll do an entire series on it.

Finally - PROOF that Big Foot exists!

 

[jlrhiner]

All right now, let's not be disrespecting the 'Foot.

The man has a serious chupacabra problem.

What caliber would you use, if you could have only one?

 

[kudzu3]

Great big dog.

 

[1morethan8]

Hey MOONDAWG...

That looks like a family picture of my in-laws!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Black Panther

 

[Texas Star]

Black Panther

No. The pug marks aren't right and the claws show. Panthers/leopards walk with claws sheathed. Ditto for cougars. This is some sort of large canid.

I know you're joking, but some might wonder, and I know of panthers privately owned here that might escape and leave tracks.

 

[1morethan8]

Texas Star..

He's just poking fun at me.... again!

You would not believe how many PMs and emails I've received over the last year from people(in several different forums) who have seen the black cats!
They all told me the same thing.. they didn't want to post on a forum because of all the feed-back, like the kind I had been getting!
Many just assume I'm just another dumb-butt hillbilly that is uneducated and no nothing about animals. Two ways to gain knowledge, first hand, and second hand... and I have both about large cats. Most everyone will only tell you what they have read in a book... and believe it to be true.

 

[williamlayton]

My goodness, what handsome feet you have.

 

[Harrison]

Yotes are skinny little beasts. I don't think a yote would ever git that big. Wolf or large dog. More likely to be a large dog than a wolf. I think red wolves have been reported along the border and out around Great Bend.

 

[Harrison]

The Last Standing Knight...


Back in 1973, the Tellico Dam(TVA) project was halted because biology professor David Etnier discovered the snail darter in the Little Tennessee River. He said it would alter the habitat of the river to the point of wiping out the snail darter because this was the only known place where the little fish lived. Under the Endangered Species Act, the project was stopped for 6 years and went all the way to the Supreme Court, then to Jimmy Carter who signed the bill that exempted Tellico from the Endangered Species Act.

So... what did the local people think about all this?
They thought it was hilarious! One big joke! Why?
They knew the snail darter was in every water way on that side of the Great Smoky Mountains!

So who are you going to believe?

Snail Darter!!! They got those critters in the springs at San Marcos. They cause all sorts of problems with the Edwards Aquifer, and several cities water supply because we have to protect these rare snail darters, which are so rare that they are not native to Texas and therefore must be endangered. People in the know believe someone was fishing in Tn, came back to Texas and dumped his minnow bucket in the springs and associated pond and thats how we got the things.

 

[JcMack]

Land Shark

 

[1morethan8]

Don't you find that a little hard to believe? To carry a minnow bucket from East Tn to Texas and then empty it in a spring...
yeah, right! I guess no one even thought that they may have been there to start with?
After shutting down a $150,000,000 TVA project for 6 years, the "smart people" discovered two things...

1) The populations of the snail darter had been transplanted to other nearby rivers, and then they find evidence of other natural populations discovered as well. The snail darter was upgraded to merely "threatened" in 1984.

2) Maybe we were wrong, and we should have listen to the local people after all!

So, I guess the question remains...
Who are you going to believe?

 

[CW Spook]

Wetback coyote carrying a large load of marijuana...

 

[Erich]

Every time I see giant tracks like that here in NM (not uncommon on the foothills trails), they turn out to have been laid by a big (domesticated) dog.

 

[ol' geeser]

Canine of some sort.....felines will move with their claws sheathed

 

[williamlayton]

We need a definitive decision by the committee.
Blessings
I still admire his feet.

 

[1morethan8]

Dave B said the tracks were in the "Boondocks" of N. Texas.

My question would be what area of N. Texas? And would this location be in an area where people walking a dog wouldn't be likely? Hunting area? Trail system?

We have a few red wolves, but their tracks are about the same as most larger dogs. It wouldn't be possible to make an ID of them.

The tracks in Dave B's pictures are large. But the location where they were found maybe the only clue of the animal that made them.
No, it's not a large cat because of the toe nails. The cheetah is one of the few large cats with semi-retractable claws.

 

[jack the toad]

I'm guessing a big dog.

 

[LazyKB]

"People in the know believe someone was fishing in Tn, came back to Texas and dumped his minnow bucket in the springs and associated pond and thats how we got the things."

Heck, half the time my minows don't make it to the lake from the bait shop!