🐾 Paw Prints

Emoji Meaning

A pair of paw prints, as left by a pet 🐈 cat or 🐕 dog. Generally depicted as two, staggered, dark-colored paw prints, each showing four toes and a pad.

Commonly used for various content concerning pet cats and dogs. Occasionally applied to other quadruped mammals. See also 👣 Footprints.

Twitter’s prints are red and Microsoft’s orange, as if a pet walked through paint. Apple Google and Facebook’s prints were previously red. Facebook's earliest design originally displayed human footprints.

Paw Prints was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.