Wolf pack?

[John A.]

Another photo from my last trail cam memory card swap.

This time in daylight and better colors.

Also, his feet do look a little on the large side as well. And they both have "spiked" fur just behind their front shoulder blades.

And a photo of a red wolf for reference that I snatched off of the interweb

 

[John A.]

Also:
https://earthfirstnews.wordpress.co...kentucky-first-in-150-years-killed-by-hunter/

excerpts:
According to a recent announcement by state wildlife officials, a 73-pound, federally endangered female gray wolf was shot dead by a hunter in Munfordville, Kentucky earlier this year. Were it Alaska or Idaho this wouldn’t be news, but Kentucky has not seen wild roaming wolves since the mid 1800s. The gray wolf was shot in March —but state officials were skeptical that it was even a wolf, believing that it was more likely someone’s German shepherd. But following months of DNA analysis, scientists confirmed it was indeed Kentucky’s first wolf in over a century and also its last.

DNA from the wolf was analyzed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center in Colorado. According to the analysis, the Kentucky gray wolf had genetic traits akin to wolves in the Great Lakes Region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Oregon carried out independent analysis and confirmed the USDA’s findings.
How the wolf came to be in Kentucky is a mystery.