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All the votes for coon have got my confidence shook.
Otter is my guess, gt any of them around?
We do in the area but have never seen one in this pond they tend to stick to the river or feeder creeks. There tracks tend to be larger and the webbing and claws are very noticeable.
I guess when he said swimming and digging it has me leaning away from cat, but that’s working off of mental pictures that might not reflect reality I guess! 🤣 Plus fur bearers and small animals are admittedly not in my wheelhouse. Always hard to put together all the clues without seeing it first hand. If you figure it out, I’d be curious to see what you find!
That's why I thought mink or weasel the behavior fits those and coon not so much a cat.

I'm about to run the line and am bringing a trail cam to set up. Might set a few traps to. I'll try and get some better pics.
 
Not the greatest picture but I think it's possible....
 

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Trail cam set up along with 2 legholds on pocket sets. Really wondering if it's a cat now as I realized a tree the beaver's chewed has fallen onto the island connecting it with the shore. The tracks are found on both sides of the trunk like something jumped off the tree to the ground and back. Here's a coon track in the mud nearby for comparison.20210117_111328.jpg20210117_113528.jpg
 
Only thing on cam was coon. One finally screwed up and stepped in a beaver trap while robbing my castor mound.20200316_142016.jpg
Here is a track I found on the shoreline next to the island today. 20200225_100145.jpg
 
Only thing on cam was coon. One finally screwed up and stepped in a beaver trap while robbing my castor mound.View attachment 172513
Here is a track I found on the shoreline next to the island today. View attachment 172514
That new track (the one at the top of the picture), looks like a cat, to me. Hard to get a sense for scale, but it looks smallish. Hopefully a bobcat and not someone's fluffy...
 

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