Mountain Lion (Puma) vs. Dog Tracks - How to Tell Them Apart 

Great information! This is the best explanation I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

Your vid is terrific. I live in the mountains in Canada and am constantly perplexed by different tracks I find (as you say, tracks of diff animals can often resemble each other). Your info is very specific, very helpful, very clear. Thanks.

You can draw an X through the tracks of a dog between the toes without hitting the pad, not so with a cat.

you are the king of tracks no doubt about it. Best track video since the big bang

Very well explained. Thanks. The gait pattern also helps to differentiate between domestic dog tracks and, for instance, wolf tracks. As stated, domestic dogs tend to wander back and forth a lot checking out scents, so the pattern tends to be relatively busy and "sloppy", whereas wolf tracks tend to be very precise and linear, with the rear print often superimposed on the front print.

Absolutely wonderful video… Great explanation, very clear and helped me to identify I did actually run across a mountain lion track at the lake! Thank you

From Santa Cruz Mtns., CA. Just saw a scat on our trail, just like your film, like nothing I’ve ever seen - so big we suspected cougar. Wonderful to have that so clearly and quickly confirmed by your excellent film. Also today someone else saw clearly a big cougar itself on our driveway - also very rare - I’ve never seen one in my many years here, tho I know they are here and can be close wo being seen. Thank you!

Excellent; I thought I was seeing mountain lion tracks yesterday. Thanks to this perfect explanation I now know I was correct-I did indeed see lion tracks.

Maybe an older video but still very helpful - thanks!

You earned a new subscriber! I live on the nw border if New Mexico SW border of Colorado and there are mountain lions out here. They are extremely secretive. I appreciate this very much!

Thank you, this video ended a large debate on a tract of a 'dog' I found, very conclusive, good teaching

Thank you for sharing! This was very informative and helpful!

Excellent presentation. Thank you very much for posting. Lots of helpful information about both types of tracks.

What a clear and nice explanation!

Great description. Learned a lot👍

Excellent! Thank you.

The way I've always distinguished between the two is that you can draw an X through the dog track, but not the cat track because of the width of the pad.

Excellent video ,,Thank You..I have seen tracks that have been difficult to distinguish, due to wet mud or melting snow...sometimes have had the privilege of looking at paws of local dogs,(many large dogs around trail areas),but have yet to find a mountain lion that would allow me to do this....

Just watched this and your MT Lion scat explaination. Wow.... lucky find. Thank you! I have been looking up Mt Lion attacks. Wondering how long before they are everywhere again. They kept telling people in CT that there were none there until one from the Dakotas was hit by a car.... They are very illusive, I can imagine them loving the area Summer Wells went missing from 110 Ben Hill Road Rogersville Hawkins Co TN.... Gone in an instant.. a animalistic scream ... two foot prints farther away from the house on neighbors property. It would make perfect sense.

Super helpful. Thank you.

so informative!

I have enjoyed your videos, Thank you. I noticed the ruler you have on this video, it is a bit busy for me. I was wondering if you know where to get one (durable plastic) which has two rulers, to get total dimensions of the tracks. Thanks for taking the time to video tape these and teach, it is powerful wisdom, I appreciate it.

Thank you!!!

Thanks for the info 👍 Now I am sure I saw momma and baby lion tracks less than a mile from my house today 😮 (rural area, high desert)

Thanks

Mountain lions in cities? Yes, in Colorado. They're in our suburbs. On our decks, next to our decks, waiting for our pets and deer.

Found a real nice cougar print in a canyon here in western Arizona. It's in my rv park. Big print. 4x4 inches. Pretty cool.

Haha, I was wondering how in the heck she had both tracks side-by-side.

yessss

Hello from Southwest Arkansas. I found a cat track down by the river today. It was as big, maybe a tad bigger than the palm of my hand. I've only seen one big cat around here. Not sure, could be a big panther. I've been told they are kinda native to Arkansas. Just hopefully I don't encounter one during deer season.

I have been tracking coyotes in East L.A. where I live, and I think I could have found a bobcat track. That would be very rare in my area, is there a way I could ask you to look at an image and help me understand if I maybe made a rare find? Thanks so much, loved this whole vid.

nice

I'm so glad I found this video because I have been using the Google lens on all my pictures I've taken and I have been following a set of tracks that I know one of them is for sure a red fox but one day I seen a white or I don't know if they call it gray but it was all white with yellowish tinge and it's fur come out of the Bush and it let me eye to eye and of course I just put my camera away anyways it was I swear it was a fox the face on it look like a fox I do have a video of the red fox with the white tip on his tail so there is a fox close to my home but we also have coyotes and I'm still wondering if some of the tracks if it's Bobcat or a Canada Lynx or a timber wolf because I have tracks of more than just one animal going through and I go down these trails like almost every day of my life so it's pretty amazing I just started doing the animal track thing when I actually haven't taken pictures all along of tracks and just I miss never got into it so yeah thank you for this and I'm not subscribed to your Channel I have a wildlife nature Channel called backyard nature here on RU-vid I'll leave the link below of your interested but yes I just learned a few new things about animal tracks that was very useful thank you

My friend Rob says Kim is amazing, I can see why!

I am told some dogs (ie. some, not all Pit Bulls) have shorter claws that do not show in a mud track.

Osx mountain lion

I seen cat tracks yesterday you can just barly see the claw marks in the snow

wowwww

can i send you a track to identify?

That is either a baby mountain lion or a bobcat print. Bobcat prints are the size of a large dog's prints, for walking on snow. Bobcats got big feet, but adult mountain lion prints are twice their size

Yea I've Seen those Numbers out in the Woods....Now I know their Coyotes

I have video and photo of tracks on my beach that I’d like to have identified. If it’s a cat it’s a Very big deal because I live in Northern Ireland.

Good i dont want c any mountain lions in my state of pa

STOP TOUCHING THE EVIDENCE!!!!!!!! UGH!