When we lived in Alaska, I trapped lynx. Once there were two lynx caught the same day in different foot hold traps. One was a large, worn-tooth old male. The other about 1 or 2 years old. We discussed eating the meat from both, but when I skinned them the younger one looked soft, smooth and pink, but just to look at the meat from the older one, it was uneven darker, almost brown, tough and not appetizing. We fixed the meat from the young one as hassenfeffer that we called katzenfeffer. It tasted good and was tender. We used the old one for fox, etc. bait.
Diane
