Not only does Professor Blue have a blog, she also has a dog…who makes tracks in the snow. Among other animals. What did she find?
First, we shall refer to the dog as Mr. The Dog. What does this dog do?
- sighs and pouts
- eats things he shouldn’t
- ‘marks territory’
- sniffs everything
- prefers eating pizza
- nibbles on the ears of his best dog friends
- howls sometimes (he is not what you would call a barking dog)
- pants with his tongue hanging out
- and as you can see in the picture above, catches up on some light reading.
- but let’s not forget — he makes tracks in the snow!
Now that it’s winter time, it seems as if everyone’s tracks are obvious. If you have snow, that is.
We recently took a walk in the woods and spotted a trail of a single row of tracks. It was as if a one legged animal had been by because there was no left paw, right paw kind of tracks. What did it look like? Like a bobcat took out a pogo stick and bounced her way to this fallen pine tree and a pile of branches not yet covered with snow.
The State of Maine has a cool chart of animal tracks here that you can look and see if you have any visiting animals near your house. Thanks to the chart, it looks as if a red fox had paid us a visit. Mr. The Dog probably knows by sniffing it but he won’t give us any clues.
