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What kind of animal made these tracks (pics)?

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/kittygomeow83/DSCF0889.jpg http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g34/kittygomeow83/DSCF0888.jpg These were taken in northern Maryland. Thanks in advance to anybody who can help me solve this mystery!

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1. Racoon.
2. Butch has it. Coon.
3. Maybe raccoon.
4. coon or a dragon one of the two
5. i would say maybe squirrel because there too small and not long enough fingers to be raccoon.
6. looks too small for raccoon to me. Looks more like squirrel both with size,shape and the length of gait. Squirrel is usually drawn out like that when they're hopping through the snow. squirrel: http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/chalk_river/2003/december2003/26dec2003/dscf0022.jpg raccoon: http://animaltracksandsign.blogspot.com/2008/01/raccoon-tracks-in-snow.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/12567713@N00/110353109/ (better pix)
7. That would be a racoon
8. I am 100% certain and will bet important body parts that it is a squirrel. There is NO doubt in my mind what so ever. I have been a life-long outdoorsman, trapper, hunting/fishing guide, taxidermist, and formerly an Alaskan game warden. I would bet my life on these tracks being a squirrel. That's how totally sure I am of it. Look in ANY book on the subject of tracks and tracking and you will see that the squirrel is the ONLY one with a track pattern somewhat like a W where as the rabbits make a Y track. (They both have a hopping kind of gait rather than a striding gait like most other mammals.) Most of the other critters make tracks in much the same stepping manner as your cat or dog.
9. 100% positive it is a squirrel. The size and shape of the prints as well as the bounding stride is a dead give away.
10. My nickel for squirrel.
11. Most likely a squirell
12. The black left behind in the track almost guarantees that it is the pup of a dreaded chupacavra these blood sucking monsters have made it that far north now.