Check out this Track! (scat added)

[1kwikstik]

A coyote will leave 2 different sized tracks- their back feet are smaller than their front feet, not a lot, but noticeable.

[Guru]

Looks way too big to me to be a coyote...and I've seen, skinned and mounted some big coyotes....but anything is possible.

As for not having "real coyotes"...we absolutely do have real coyotes! Their called Eastern Coyotes for a reason.

[Thumper Dunker]

What I ment was yours are larger than ours.  

[mwosborn]

Looks like a dog to me.

[jhg]

A dogs hind paws are smaller than the fronts too. Just go over and take a look at your dog thats probably laying on the couch...

I've never seen a round coyote track personally. They all showed the two center toes being longer thus elongating the print. Running or loping. Don't know if I have ever seen a coyote actually walking along. Hunting yes but not strolling like he was taking in the air.
But I have not seen them all.

Joshua

[Paul WA]

Never seen or heard of a coyote that big, I would say a dog...PR

[Friend]

One thing we know for sure is that it isn't an elephant track.

[lpcjon2]

I added a pic of some scat I found 20 yrd away from the location I found the track.

[Don Stokes]

Glad I already finished lunch...

[doeboy]

njloco,

30 # dogs are big, a 40# dog is worthy to tell your family and friends, a 50# you will be written up in Fur,Fish and Game!

Most people think they are much bigger till they put them onthe scale, kind of like a 150# doe!

Just sayin.... Doeboy

[Looper]

I'd say it's a dog track, too. The scat is probably dog, too.  My neighbor's dog leaves coyote-looking scat.  They don't feed him much and he supplements his diet with anything he can catch.

[lpcjon2]

Looper the scat was full of hair that looked like deer hair to me.

[Shedrock]

Who says the scat was left by the dog that made the tracks? I am a fed coyote trapper. The scat looks like coyote, and old, by the color. The track is dog.

It is legal here to shoot dogs running wildlife. How about where you are? That dog needs to go.

[lpcjon2]

Shedrock Im not sure what the dog law is in NJ. I did find some fresher stuff also,Could a domestic dog that is wild run with the yotes?

[Shedrock]

They may run with the coyotes there, but here, the coyotes kill the dogs.

[Cootling]

I would reserve judgement on the dog... tracks in the same place don't necessarily suggest one creature was chasing the other, much less that it posed a serious threat.

[lpcjon2]

Not to worry I wont pass any judgment on any K-9 unless it gives me a reason to. This is not a thread about that and I don't want it to be one.

[Shedrock]

I'm just saying if you see the dog chasing game here, collar or not, you can shoot it.

I just saw a german shepard running the heck out of some deer here, but they were long gone before I could get to them.

Our deer are getting into wintering stages, and don't need some dog wearing them down. Sorry, but I will shoot the dog if possable.