I was walking out in front of the house last night and one of the kids spots some hoof prints in the dirt on the edge of the road,
now we have the occasional coyote, racoon, ,armadillo, gators and egrets,
all the time or opossum, and of course,the neighbors have cattle, and lots of horses, dogs and cats ,and chickens and ducks
but the kids were not familiar with these tracks,
they were excited, and came running over and said ,
hey grumpy, we must have deer in the neighborhood....
I looked at the tracks and its a fairly easy mistake to make...
but it was not deer tracks it was hog tracks,
yeah, we have a few wild hogs come through our rural area at times at night.
with some experience, the difference in what the tracks look like,
is rather obvious if you have a few dozen to look over both in size and shape and stride length.
but its nice to see the kids recognized the tracks as something out of the ordinary.
Ive seen guys who should know better out hunting ,
that don,t know the difference or could tell you what direction the animal was walking in for that matter!
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