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A little excitement today
« 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.

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #1 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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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2025, 07:38:01 PM »
Great cats Bruce Congratulations


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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2025, 08:32:19 AM »
Great catches !! Cat on the right looks chunky

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #4 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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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2025, 09:40:10 AM »
Almost a family dinner, thanks!!!

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #6 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:
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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2025, 05:08:13 PM »
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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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2025, 09:44:52 PM »
Oh noes.  You slayed a protected white toed bobcat.    ;)

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2025, 06:30:55 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?

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2025, 05:41:22 PM »
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.

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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2025, 05:45:41 PM »
I did catch two more cats today. Turned them both loose. Too small!
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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2025, 07:34:43 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.😉
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Re: A little excitement today
« Reply #13 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!!

 


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