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Title: A little excitement today
Post by: Humptulips on March 14, 2025, 06:56:15 PM: Pictured are two bobcats I caught today. The one on the right was where the excitement was. As I was walking down an old logging road to check the cage, I heard some growling and some commotion. I never saw anything but when I got to the trap it was pulled out of place and cougar tracks about. I had set the trap alongside of a windfall, so the back was against the uproot part of the windfall. The trunk of the windfall was a little higher than the trap was tall. A fir tree was on the other side of the trap. Kind of a nice hole that fit the trap. I had wired the trap to a small limb on the fir tree.
Trap was pulled over the windfall, broke the limb the trap was tied to, and the trap was standing on end. Like I say cougar tracks in the dirt from the uproot. Bobcat was not happy, but I got there before he suffered any damage.

One other thing and it is not easy to see but the cat has white toes on its back feet. Not sure I ever saw that before.
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Dan-o on March 14, 2025, 07:00:03 PM: Wow, that would have been incredible to actually see.

Looks like a nice pair of cats.
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Post by: redi on March 14, 2025, 07:38:01 PM: Great cats Bruce Congratulations
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Post by: JakeLand on March 15, 2025, 08:32:19 AM: Great catches !! Cat on the right looks chunky
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Humptulips on March 15, 2025, 09:17:47 AM: Chunky because he is full of beaver meat.

A word on the value of these cats. Put them up real nice, Nevada stretch and get them real clean and fluffy, haul them to ID. They are probably worth maybe $30. Skin them with the feet on them and do the ears and head for taxidermy, $80.
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Post by: nwwanderer on March 15, 2025, 09:40:10 AM: Almost a family dinner, thanks!!!
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Post by: KNOPHISH on March 15, 2025, 11:09:02 AM: Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. :chuckle:
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Humptulips on March 15, 2025, 05:08:13 PM: Quote from: KNOPHISH on March 15, 2025, 11:09:02 AM
Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. :chuckle:
Sorry, I have a better market than that. :IBCOOL:
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Post by: EnglishSetter on March 15, 2025, 09:44:52 PM: Oh noes. You slayed a protected white toed bobcat. ;)
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Post by: Magnum_Willys on March 16, 2025, 06:30:55 AM: Quote from: Humptulips on March 15, 2025, 05:08:13 PM
Quote from: KNOPHISH on March 15, 2025, 11:09:02 AM
Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. :chuckle:
Sorry, I have a better market than that. :IBCOOL:

That recent fur report from Idaho bobcats were like $500+ or did I read that wrong? Too late in season I guess?
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Humptulips on March 16, 2025, 05:41:22 PM: Quote from: Magnum_Willys on March 16, 2025, 06:30:55 AM
Quote from: Humptulips on March 15, 2025, 05:08:13 PM
Quote from: KNOPHISH on March 15, 2025, 11:09:02 AM
Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. :chuckle:
Sorry, I have a better market than that. :IBCOOL:

That recent fur report from Idaho bobcats were like $500+ or did I read that wrong? Too late in season I guess?
There is a world of difference between them pale bellied cats and the casty bellied cats you get from the coast. You can't make something like this out of a coastal cat.
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Humptulips on March 16, 2025, 05:45:41 PM: I did catch two more cats today. Turned them both loose. Too small!
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on March 16, 2025, 07:34:43 PM: Quote from: Humptulips on March 16, 2025, 05:45:41 PM
I did catch two more cats today. Turned them both loose. Too small!
that last pic would have been better with the smaller cats.😉
Title: Re: A little excitement today
Post by: JakeLand on March 17, 2025, 04:57:43 AM: Fortunately a couple of our coastal westside cats hit $180 marks at the fur sale this last weekend!!