Friend sent me this picture from northern Wisconsin by the UP he says Bigger than a cat smaller than a dog. About a foot and a half to 2 feet apart . And there in the snow maybe 3 inches deep.
What do you think it is?

Looks like something Is being dragged.

Hard to tell without being there but my guess is,due to stride length etc,it is probably a coyote,carrying something.It is even possible that it could have a broken cable restraint,dangling.If he sees it again,with the same drag mark,that could be it,otherwise,I'd say it may be carrying prey.

I once tracked a gray fox in a skiff of snow,with a drag mark.It holed up under a bunch of large boulders.I was able to get it and it was wearing a #2 longspring with no name tag.The drag mark I was seeing was the chain.

That does look like something on one foot.

Possum, they swish their butts as they walk and the tail drags to make the mark.

A coyote's tail will not register in 3" of snow.I think it's feet are Ok.I believe it is either carrying something in it's mouth or a cable is hanging from it's neck.Probably one of Beav's

If those are drag marks how can they be so precisely the same on both sides of the animals body unless it is a tail dragging from an animals natural stride?

What are the other tracks crossing it's path in the second picture?

Baby Squatch dragging a mink. That was easy! :

Pig dragging a pig castrator.

its a teenager male coyote comin into his first breeding season.

brings back memories.

Something that looks very stiff in the back end.

When the right,front leg comes forward,the object shifts to the left.When the left front leg comes forward,the object shifts to the right.That is why I think the object is centered,either held by the mouth or dangling from the neck.The tracks ate not erratic so I am sure,there is nothing on any of the feet.

In 60 years of trapping,I have never seen a canine tail show drag marks like that and NO,an oppossum does not have an 18" stride.

Otter

Hard to say without a peek at a track of some sort because lots of stuff gets dragged along.

Agree with Taximan.