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This is for all the West Virginia people on here. Just for me, I haven't seen much at all in the way of tracks/casts out of WVA, which I'm guessing is likely due to the mountainous/hilly terrain the state is known for. It's interesting this is not a very old report; everything happened in Sept.-2016. . https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=55583 I'm sure this report was on here several years ago but due to a pic of a rare four toed cast, I thought I'd give it some new life. Tracks and/or casts with four toes seem to be even less common than ones with three toes. There are several pics of other casts in the report. As you'll see, the four toed cast is the second cast shown; it appears to be about 13 & 1/2 inches long, and shows to be 5 in. wide at the base of the toes in the third pic. The other cast is rather interesting with it's longer toes; longer than we normally see. And notice in the first pic the witness is holding a cast of a 19 & 1/2 inch track. Per the location details, the tracks were found on a farm just off the highway, two miles from Glady, WVA. My thinking is it's north of Glady.

Another afternoon trip, this time with my oldest son, Steve. We chose today, as an "atmospheric river" (read that as Biblical downpour) is forecast for tonight through Monday. We went a bit further north and east from Mission this time, getting about 40 km off pavement before heading home just at dark. Steve brought his new mountain bike, so I turned him loose at the top of a long winding downhill stretch, and followed him down in the H3. He averaged about 33km/h (21 mph), and found the suspension a little too stiff for the potholed gravel; he vibrated for 1/2 hour after the ride, lol. We saw no game or sign at all, and the only other truck out there was parked overlooking a huge clearcut at the end of the trail, so we turned around there to leave him to hunt in peace. Several km down from there, the road crosses a creek that I mentioned to Steve looked like a possible placer area, due to the mineralization in the nearby road cuts, so we stopped so he could shovel some gravel from behind a large boulder, to take home and test pan. I'll let you know if we strike it rich!

Many wolf packs are much smaller then that. I do agree however, the chewing off of the head and the rest seems far fetched. I had a Rhodesian Ridgeback when I was a kid, super smart dog. In Africa they were used for hunting lions. I also had a great dane, Irish wolf hound cross that was a monster He ripped apart 2 rottweilers that attacked our neighbors old newfoundland dog (dog could barely walk, and my dog was his friend) A year or 2 before covid hit, I couldn't sleep and went to the gas station/convenience store around the corner, it was 2:30/3:00 am, when suddenly we see this poor pit bull missing an ear running down the road being chased by a pack of coyotes. The clerk called the cops who came down, but they never found the dog or the coyotes