Track ID?

[KsRancher]

What made this? I was walking some timber and came across a large track that I haven't ever seen in Kansas before. With the toenails I thought dog. But it just didn't look right. So I followed it for a few hundred yards. It's along a river so the first track I seen was in some soft mud. I followed it until it got to some harder ground and got another picture. When looking up lion tracks it said there would be a "W" in the back of the back pad. I put 2 dots what looks like the "W" to me. What do you guys think. I have lived in Kansas 38yrs and never seen a lion or lion track. Only track I have seen like this was in Colorado at 9500ft in the snow by my bull elk carcass

 

[Eric30]

The second picture has claw marks in the track, I believe lions don't leave claw marks since they they have retractable claws.

 

[mike.adams.467]

The second picture has claw marks in the track, I believe lions don't leave claw marks since they they have retractable claws.

Agree; its not a lion track. I suspect its a dog.

 

[Geewhiz]

Canine for sure IMO

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Wolf.

 

[Beendare]

Y

Canine for sure IMO

Yep

 

[TxxAgg]

 

[LongWayAround]

Big dog

 

[EastHumboldt]

Great Dane, mastiff, some sort of giant mutt.

 

[Rotnguns]

Not a lion. Big dog.

 

[insanelupus]

Dog most probably.

 

[Mike 338]

Dog.

 

[RockAndSage]

Yep. Big, fat off-leash dog.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Definitely a dog of some form.

 

[roosiebull]

The second picture has claw marks in the track, I believe lions don't leave claw marks since they they have retractable claws.

They do in soft mud pretty often, I have seen lots of lion tracks with claw marks showing but the claw marks are usually thin slices ahead of the toes

The claw marks don’t look the same as a dog claw, but they are present sometimes