Probably my best opinion would be from Sixball?
Four days ago I took Rowdy out for a morning pee. He led me down to the small creek bed. He got all on alert sniffing. It was still damp and some big big paw prints in the soft stuff with some good size claw marks. Then Rowdy's hair kinda went up. A few yards away in the hard, big dump, with maybe Rabbit fur in it.
Later that day i took him out to pee again and he headed toward the round top power pole. Got close and he went nutz sniffing, then i seen the ground scratching. Appeared to be all 4 paws, deep groove, wide spread and long stroke (17.5" long on fronts). Just thought..damn that was a very big dog.
Today at the parts house, two farmers were talking about someone south of town had spotted a Wolf. They said he probably seen someones Malamute or German Sheperd. I didn't say squat about it.
I haven't seen a Wolf here except for 10 yrs ago at my friends farm 30mile west. Their dog had escaped the kennel and had been gone a week. They left the gate open and feed inside. Thats when they spotted a she Wolf inside. She stayed around for a week. Good looking girl.
Here are 4 day old srcachings, it had sprinkled one day and 40mph winds later. They are still pretty deep.