Tracking lions vs foxes

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Tracking lions vs foxes

Postby Physch » Mon Jul 18, 2022 9:32 pm

Is there a different pattern for tracking a fox vs tracking a female lion? If you’re dry ground on a game trail with a lot of different tracks that goes to rocks without tracks how do you decide what the dogs are following?

I’ve read some info on the fox forum and a little here. Unless I’m missing something with male lions leave bread crumbs with scrapes and easier to decipher what they’re tracking.
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Re: Tracking lions vs foxes

Postby tman308 » Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:16 am

If you absolutely have no tracks on the ground the only way you're going to be able to tell what they're chasing is with a good broke dog. With saying that if your trail leads up through the boulders there's a good chance it could be a fox. If it leaves the game trail goes over to the rock pile and then comes back to the game trail good percentage of the time that will be a lion or bobcat
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