I just started trapping coyote in January and have gotten 1 so far. I recently got access to a property I can only trap on weekends because it's too far away to check before work. So I can set Friday evenings and check Saturday and Sunday mornings. Last weekend was the first and I didn't set this weekend because I wanted to do some more scouting. I found a couple of areas in field corners that had lots of scat like 2nd pic and a lot of scratchings. I had a set in one of those areas last weekend and today I found it dug up with some scat right on it (1st pic). But it looks a little different than the other scat nearby. Are these both coyote scat? I did see a skunk while I was making the set and my backing which was some pine bark piled up was kicked down. We've obviously had quite a bit of rain lately.

When you find these areas how many would you set there?

Hard to say for sure.Next time put something beside it for size comparison.Looks like bobcat to me.What state do you live in?

bobcat toilet

That is my guess as well, I'd prolly set 4 traps, 2 at least. Stinks you only get the weekends, some cats in my area take 4 weeks to come back through, and that sign looks fresh, which is not what I wanna see on cats. Regardless, I would set it, and set it heavy.

That's interesting. One thing I forgot to mention is the first day I checked it, there was a track on the set and it was definitely more "rounded" than coyote tracks. I was thinking maybe bobcat, but again, I'm new at this and just figured I was wrong. I live in southern Indiana and unfortunately we don't have a bobcat season yet but the population is definitely going up around here and I hear we should be getting a season soon.

Here a couple more pics. So are these coyote? Hair, twisted, pointy?

Yes the last pics are coyote.