heya guys. i need some help with something. it's been snowing for about two days here and my boyfriend stepped out his house this morning and saw these foot prints in the snow. what kinda creature will give these footprints??? and it was only a single line. it looks as if it had hopped and it was quite a far jump it made each time it jumped. we live in ENGLAND not Austrailia. lol! we dont have hopping animals will one leg. LOL. and plus we live near the city and we are in no countryside or anything. so what do u guys think?? its really weird and freaked me out :S

Looks like a rabbit to me. Two front feet and the wider set hind could leave that pattern.

iv had rabbits in the past and it has snowed before when iv had them.they didnt make that pattern at all, but i can see where ur coming from.

and the back feet are always bigger than the front. and the back bit of the print doesnt seem to bigger than the front bit. im not too convinced its a rabbit



and the back feet are always bigger than the front. and the back bit of the print doesnt seem to bigger than the front bit. im not too convinced its a rabbit

yeah I'd say rabbit

This is deffinitly a rabbit, seen em a thousand times

thanks okay

Definately a Rabbit print.

I was thinking maybe a "lame" dog of some sort..but the prints look to close together.

i know wwhat you mean. the prints look too close together even for a rabbit.

A lame dog would leave a bigger mess and it's paws would have traces of claws in the prints...

Whatever it was, it had to have some weight to it to make enough of an impression in the snow to leave such a defined print.

Nope just plain old ordinary rabbit prints. From the spacing and what I can scale in the pic it looks like the rabbit was running along that fence. When a rabbit runs its back feet wont leave a long print like the kind you see in Reznas pic. Its kind of up on its toes when its running and that results in the front and back feet leaving approx the same size print. Exactly what you have.

Definitely a rabbit. No doubt about it. I had a bunny when I was growing up. I gave her the original name of Rabbit. She was killed by a dog.

A career as a motovational speaker is not for you...sheeeeeesh.

This one time I had a rabbit, and we tried to breed it. And my rabbit and this other rabbit were going at it like, yanno, rabbits. And they were both male rabbits. So, there, you see, my rabbit was gay. True story.

Broke-back bunnies?

'Fraid so. Only neither one of them looked anything like Heath Ledger.

YOUR ALL FOOLS! CANT YOU SEE THE OBVIOUS!? THOSE ARE WERE-RABBIT TRACKS! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

haha! Gay rabbits!

This thread went down hill fast.....

It's a Jackalope!!!

I grew up a hunters daughter and when I mean a hunters daughter, I mean just that. My dad made hiis own weapons out of stock wood on hhis lap his own rifels and bow and arrow , as well as fishing polls etc,.. He is very knowledgable and hunted since he was very young he even uses the horns of buffalo once to be the butt end shoulder rest of his rifle. Never wasted anything he killed, food or otherwise,.. I was the interested party and we lived breathed and ate only wild game ducks elk abalone wild boar rabbit you name it, and he hunted like every month.

Heres what Im getting at, because it is snow and the weight would have to be equivilent to make an immpression ,
The first set of front prints is exact to an elk,... the back is a bit more questionable , but the hoofs are about 1 foot and 1/2 long from the ankle so if they used that weight to push themselvres forward throught the snaow it would be most likely an elk .

Depends on the size of the actual prints themselves,. Im bankin on elk but I could be wrong,... rabbit can still be a second runner up,..hahaha get it,? runner up.

Abecrombie

what is an elk? iv never heard of it :S do u have an image of it?

An elk is a deer, but it's not an elk. Elk tracks look nothing like that, mostly because an elk is hulking great big deer and a rabbit is a small, fluffy, bouncing thing. They're quite clearly rabbit tracks. Don't be seduced by the idea it's something else. A rabbit left them. It's a rabbit, a bunny, an eater of carrot, a wascally varmint. The only way it could be more obviously a picture of rabbit tracks was if the rabbit was still there, eating a carrot, waving at the camera with a sign around its neck saying 'rabbit'.

Having said that, it's odd how the small pawprints aren't staggered, which happens when they bounce.
Maybe it's a levitating wabbit.

This exact same thing happened to me except that i was told it was a rabbit by my neighbors.

American Elk

Elk tracks

Link-> Elk

They are not staggered because he was not "hopping" in his usual gait. He was likely going along the fence line slowly to graze or because he was being cautious.

ah, there we go. Thanks. You're with me on the rabbit though?

You don't generally get elk running about in the UK. Roe, red, maybe fallow and I think Sika were let loose. But no elk.


Tis but a coney.

Did you get a measurement of the tracks?

It's always good to put a clear ruler next to the tracks to give a size, and what was the distance between each set?

Hey, I wasn't trying to motivate anyone. And I wasn't feeling well cause I hurt my knee cap, and I can hardly walk now. At least I know how to spell 'motivational'.

I agree on the rabbit. I'm no tracker, but I lived up north and have seen many rabbit prints in the snow. That's just what it looks like to me.

I think that elk dropped some money...