Pawprint identification - please help!

[sarahcwilliams]

Hi! Can anyone identify the three pawprints for me?
Took them in the forest when we were in Aberfoyle, in the Scottish Borders, and I'm CONVINCED they're not dog prints!!! There are three - I'm thinking wildcat, bear and wolf!! LOL!! Your opinion greatly received!

 

[Bigfoot]

My first thought is that you were in the Trossachs, not the Border country Welcome to the forum!

The tracking specialists will be along in a minute to help out, I'm sure.

 

[sarahcwilliams]

I stand corrected... indeed it was the Trossachs, in particular Loch Ard forest within the the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park...

 

[Shambling Shaman]

The middle one looks like Fox

 

[JonathanD]

Difficult to say without a sense of scale. Have you got any bigger pics. In order, looks like cat, dog/fox and squirrel. But need some perspective and scale really.

 

[sarahcwilliams]

hi... sorry no other piccies, but from memory, the top one was about 2-3inch diam, middle about 4inch in length, and bottom about the same. I'm a newbie to this - please forgive my naivity!

 

[sarahcwilliams]

 

[BushrangerCZ]

hello, first one cat(no scale, but if you have around 9 sized boot it can be wild one), second one definately a dog, third one some small creature, again I need scale (matchbox or credit card is enough) and whole track set up, but I guess squirrel. Definately no bear tracks, sorry.-).

 

[sarahcwilliams]

Hi! Thanks for that... darned dog!! - I really thought we were being bear-stalked lol! third one was bigger than a credit card... about 4inch in length and about 3inch at it widest part... friend of mine thought maybe pine marten??

 

[Knightfisher8]

Hi! Thanks for that... darned dog!! - I really thought we were being bear-stalked lol! third one was bigger than a credit card... about 4inch in length and about 3inch at it widest part... friend of mine thought maybe pine marten??

pine marten

 

[sarahcwilliams]

hhmmm... not a pine marten then...

 

[JonathanD]

Well they are all too big to be most wild animals so I'm sure they are all dog with various thaw and re-freeze anomalies. The top one looks like a cat, but is more likely an old dog print (running).

 

[BushrangerCZ]

Is there any water nearby? If so, it could be (the third pic) also something like nutria.

 

[T1Viper]

considering there are no wild bears or wolves in Scotland i doubt you'd ever see their tracks

 

[nuggets]

considering there are no wild bears or wolves in Scotland i doubt you'd ever see their tracks

she may have been in a safari park ???