As people can often be confused when asked to identify cat and dog footprints due to similarities but in reality there are obvious differences to help you distinguish them. For example would you be able to tell which footprints belong to which animal from the image above? In order to tell cat and dog footprints you only need to have basic knowledge which I will provide on this web page. The most important thing that you need to know is that cats imprints do not show claw marks as the dogs do because the shape of the foot is affected by where the animal lives. You might also be wondering why there are only four toe marks on the tracks but the reason for this is that the fifth toe is higher up because the foot had been elongated over thousands of years in order to allow more sure footed running, jumping and pouncing. It is also possible to tell the speed of the animal by the pattern of the prints which determined by how fast or slow the animal is moving and become more spread out as they increase their speed. If you know this information then in the future you should easily be able to tell them apart and I hope that you have learned something useful from this web page.