A little excitement today

[Humptulips]

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.

[Dan-o]

Wow, that would have been incredible to actually see. 

Looks like a nice pair of cats.

[redi]

Great cats Bruce Congratulations

[JakeLand]

Great catches !! Cat on the right looks chunky

[Humptulips]

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.

[nwwanderer]

Almost a family dinner, thanks!!!

[KNOPHISH]

Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. 

[Humptulips]

Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. 

Sorry, I have a better market than that.

[EnglishSetter]

Oh noes.  You slayed a protected white toed bobcat.   

[Magnum_Willys]

Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. 

Sorry, I have a better market than that.

That recent fur report from Idaho bobcats were like $500+ or did I read that wrong?   Too late in season I guess?

[Humptulips]

Those are cool, I’d give ya $35 and ya don’t have to go to Idaho. 

Sorry, I have a better market than that.

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.

[Humptulips]

I did catch two more cats today. Turned them both loose. Too small!

[Boss .300 winmag]

I did catch two more cats today. Turned them both loose. Too small!

that last pic would have been better with the smaller cats.😉

[JakeLand]

Fortunately a couple of our coastal westside cats hit $180 marks at the fur sale this last weekend!!