I found these while I was out walking my dog this morning. They are too small to be a deer, plus they go in a straight line with an inch and a half separating one set from another. I’m in SW TX.
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Could be a young Collared Peccary(javelina).
I would have said wild pig, but “inch and a half separating one set from another”? The prints are an inch and a half apart? How big is the print itself?
Less than an inch, sorry. Those rocks by it are small pebbles. I didn’t have the time this morning or anything I could use to get a good size comparison.
There was only that row of tracks, no others. So I don’t think it’s the peccary. It was early morning and no people had been there, so I don’t think a second set got erased.
a litter of baby pigs moving in a line?
Chupacabra. The evidence indicates they mimic the footprints of other animals. They mimic the shape, size, fur, anatomy and DNA of other animals too.
Peccary (and young feral pigs) would be the smallest wild hoofed animal in the region.
Other native hoofed animals in Texas include:
Mule Deer
White-tailed Deer
Pronghorn
Bighorn Sheep
Bison
These would mostly be too big. I assume that the last three would probably not be near houses.
Texas also has several introduced species of Asian deer and antelope, but they are around the same size as deer.
Sheeps and goaties …
Maybe, or Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs…