In the statistical abstract, fox tracks will have individual paw prints that are longer than wide (where dog tracks will be at least as wide as long, and might be wider than long), the toes are arranged so the nails are all pointing fore-and-aft, and the distance of the prints from the sagittal plane is less than it is with dogs (though not zero or nearly zero) as it is with cats. And generally prints will be on the small side, compared to domestic dogs; fourteen kilos/thirty pounds is as large as red foxes get.
All of this is pretty darn vague; my take on the tracks in the winter was some confusion, because they didn't look like cat tracks, but who would be walking their dog from my back yard to my front hard in the middle of the night? They were obviously not right for a coyote; too small. I didn't think of foxes until I actually saw one, and the light bulb came on.
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Date: 2020-05-23 12:53 pm (UTC)All of this is pretty darn vague; my take on the tracks in the winter was some confusion, because they didn't look like cat tracks, but who would be walking their dog from my back yard to my front hard in the middle of the night? They were obviously not right for a coyote; too small. I didn't think of foxes until I actually saw one, and the light bulb came on.