Snowy Woods and southern dogs

Beautiful snow this Sunday morning from dawn to noon, 3-4 inches. Afternoon was below freezing but snow was clearing, so at five I went to the SW gate of the Woods, to see what tracks I would find.
Along the South boundary trail there were no tracks for 100 m or more.. maybe one squirrel. Then there was a well worn but otherwise hidden thoroughfare heading south under the fence. It looked like it might have been raccoon. Further east, at the main break in the fence, there was the principle dog entry and I was sad to see from abundant tracks, that they were still here. I crossed south through the fence and found the five young dogs together on the east side of the new trash station. They ran off around to the front and entered the station to forage in the bags along the west wall. I followed them to the entrance and stomped my foot. They ran barking back north and east into the Woods. We have to get those dogs out of the Woods. At the fence break by Carpenter's G-0 post there were again lots of tracks including one that looked like a bobcat. . rounded pads and no nails.
With the sun setting I wandered north back into the Woods.
Leaving the southern portion of the Woods I encountered the first deer tracks. The snow is a great recorder of wildlife activity showing the hidden routes that the animals in the Woods know and use. Sometimes they use the cleared trails. Sometimes they have their own ways.
The deer tracks all through the Woods seemed like mostly young deer. I wondered what impact the dogs were having in suppressing wildlife.
I found no evidence of dogs north of the dune. Most of the deer tracks stayed north of the dune.
Beautiful time to be in the Woods with snow outlining the dark trunks of the trees. The glowing sunset colors lit up the Woods reflecting from the white forest floor.