Free 1‑Page ‘Dog or Lion?’ Track Decoder:

The 5‑Step Method to Read Any Track

Neighbor's dog or a predator?

Simple 5 Step Process to Animal Track Identification.

Save it to your phone and take it on your next walk. You’ll learn a 5‑step process to identify who left a track, shown step‑by‑step on the most confusing pair in North America: your neighbor’s dog vs a mountain lion.

Get the free 1‑page guide that walks you through the 5‑step process to tell dog vs mountain lion track (most common vs most feared) apart on your next walk. And any other animal track in your area.

What you will learn...

  • Clear 5‑step framework you can use with any animal

  • See how tiny differences in size, shape, and stride reveal who passed by

  • Turn a ‘just a walk’ into a story you can actually follow

  • Designed by a former U.S. government tracker using methods from an Apache elder

Much more than just track identification


On the back of the card, you’ll also see the next layer of tracking: five more steps that begin to answer why the animal was there and what it was doing. You won’t master that in one page – but you’ll never look at a single print the same way again

What you will learn

How to find animals in the wild

How to identify tracks on hard to read terrain

How to be present in the moment

How to see the stories going on around you everyday

What Other's Say

BSA Scoutmaster

“Fun to use with my Boy Scout Troop! There is so much info in here, and a lot more to tracking than I realized. I'm not a tracker, so we're learning it together!”

John T.

Avid hiker, casual tracker

“…the awareness skills have blown me away. These really are everyday skills. I don't know if I'll ever be a "tracker", but I'm using the awareness skills. Thanks for sharing!”

Steve S.

You’ll also get tracking stories and short practice prompts on deer, raccoons, rabbits, rodents, and... my favorite, people.

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