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I brightened it to get a better look.

Big pit bull type dog with cropped ears

Thats kinda what I was thinking. Have people started relying so much on a trail cam that they can't even look at tracks any more?

Yup. Just like they rely so heavily on a GPS that if the batteries die, they die with them.

In that brightened photo, it sure looks like it has a big fat tail, very un-bearlike.

What an incredibly lame, low class and discussion deflating question. I mean, c'mon, you're suggesting that someone look at an actual TRACK in the snow of all things? How last century can you get? At least make it a digital image of a track, photoshopped of course. It is beneath the dignity of this august body of internet experts to look at the crude place where a yucky live animal stepped.

Looks like someone's dog that has been eating way too over the holidays.

Make that three...must be a hippo.

Pretty tough angle. I'd not wager a pay check on any guess.

Tracks don't last any longer than the snow. The snowcover is not heavy and in a place such as Grand Rapids on Christmas day, it might not last long. Many times I've checked trail cameras and short-lived snow in the pictures. In fact, during early December I checked a camera on a morning with fresh snow, and checked it again in the evening and the snow was completely melted. So I assumed the snow had melted by the time the person checked his camera and found this picture of a dog.

Steve.

Might be a dog, but it might not be. Black bears are typically found north of GR, but not by that much. A couple of years ago, one wandered into Flint and was hit on the expressway- it was following the Flint River as a travel corridor. Black bears have been seen in GRs northern suburbs occasionally over the last few years.

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/183313/2/UPDATE-Black-Bear-roaming-through-Grand-Rapids

http://michiganradio.org/post/black-bears-moving-south

The head looks all wrong for a black bear. Especially the forehead and nose. Theoretically the ears could be laid back but they should be there as well. I'm betting it's a dog and a FAT one at that.

I opened it in MS Picture Manager, lightened the dark areas and enlarged it and have decided that it's a bear.

What do black Hippo tracks look like in the snow? Could one confuse them with Black Rhino tracks?

Make it four ... my first impression as well.

Make it five.... The elusive black hippo.

"In three photos, a dog also is visible, he said."

Could ^this^ POSSIBLY be a clue?
If it doesn't look like the dog in the three photos containing a dog then I vote for the Eastern Black Hippo, though this one has apparently wandered out of its normal range. Probably driven out by a whompus cat.

Three dogs visible in other shots, bears uncommon there, lightened photo and common sense reveals....a dog. Or a black hippo. They run with dogs when people aren't looking.

Six.
Definitely a hippo and he's bloated on the right side because he just ate the dog.

Chupacabra

We've had St. Bernards, Mastiffs, etc and I've been around many a large dog but I've never scene a dogs a$$ that's half that wide.


If it's not a bear, than it's gotta be one of those elusive Black Hippos



PS: Alamosa, love the healer pic. Had a few growing up and if I ever live on an acreage again I'll have another one.