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You will not find much wild life on the Camino. Rather more domesticated animals such as cows moving across villages and sheep in the fields. An occasional tame pilgrim on horse back. The "wildest" creatures moving along the tracks are pilgrim cyclists on mountain bikes who move at high speed, shouting their right of way when they are about on top of you. :evil:ilovelife said:What kind of wild life do you find on the paths in the Camino de Santiago?
Hi Stephen. I think you've mentioned these packs of wild dogs before but I've never seen any. Where did you encounter them? Is it on the Frances? Buen Camino!Stephen Nicholls said:Spain does have packs of wild dogs. They rarely cause a problem, and hate being poked in the face with a walking pole.
So it's their right of way? Even on the paths? Let's see what happens when they start shouting at me! ....that's telling 'em!!fraluchi said:You will not find much wild life on the Camino. Rather more domesticated animals such as cows moving across villages and sheep in the fields. An occasional tame pilgrim on horse back. The "wildest" creatures moving along the tracks are pilgrim cyclists on mountain bikes who move at high speed, shouting their right of way when they are about on top of you. :evil:ilovelife said:What kind of wild life do you find on the paths in the Camino de Santiago?
It's wild and it's life, so...Lise T said:I remember seeing massive slugs on the trail. They were huge!!!!
I felt sorry for them so would pick some of them up and get them off the path.
Ok so that's not wildlife......but still They were HUGE!!!
Terry saw very large paw prints too. When we asked a hunter what they were he said 'puerco espin' a porcupine. Apparently there are some N African Porcupines in the area. If you look carefully you can see the tail trail, and also the back paw prints are apparently longer and slightly narrower than the front.Anniesantiago said:..............
I still swear I saw large cat tracks in the woods along the Northern Route. But people on the forum insist I must have been wrong. I worked for US Fish and Wildlife Service and Fisheries in 4 states, have a degree in Wildlife Management, and I've had a bit of training in tracking, so I'm fairly confident as to what I saw. Maybe it was a lynx out of its range. Maybe it was someone's 50 pound house cat. :roll: Or an escaped circus animal. Or maybe someone has a pet exotic cat. Or maybe there were drugs in my coffee, or maybe the aliens dropped it :shock: :shock: :shock: , but I maintain I saw what appeared to me to be cougar-type cat tracks. A two-lobed pad with four toes and no claws. The pad was nearly as wide as my palm. I don't frighten easily, but the hair on the back of neck stood up and I high-tailed it out of there!.........
Anniesantiago said:Hi Tia,
. . . . that is a BIG porcupine! :shock:
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