You should cage trap some western bobcats and release them into your gene pool. LOL

Crazy thing here is further south you go better they are spotted up but for some reason up here in the hills they are bigger but red backed and poorly spotted.

Jtrapper I had a fur buyer tell me one time my cats were ONLY worth $45 tops. Had one grade Western at Fur Harvesters and sale for $200 last season. Guess he was a little off.lol

Compadre, here's my take on your question: Ship them to a US agent who will handle the Cites paperwork. Then take into account that they may, or may not sell next auction. When they do sell it will be about 6 weeks before you get a check. If none of that scares you off FHA is certainly an option.

In the meantime big cat buyers like Western Montana, Pappas, etc buy at most of the western Assoc. sales and if the market is hot they often out-do FHA for prices, have lower selling commissions, and faster money.

And I almost forgot, the ability to control whether your asking price is met in some of the sales.

I hear that Colt Fur has a very good market for bobcat pelts also .

Rodney nice selection of well put up bobcats !

Last year Kortum (Western Montana) was dominant at the western sales for cats.

You're welcome. I'll hold off on any selfies for now, 'cuz my wife will accuse me of being weird....again. Don't know if she'll believe it's just for other men.

Don't any of you guys wash your fur before putting it on stretchers? I wash cats in the sink with dawn dish washing liquid, rinse them clean, dry them with old clean towels, put them on a stretcher fur side in and apply borax and rub it in a bit. After 6 or 7 hours with a fan and heat, I rub off the excess borasx turn them fur side out, tack them to the stretcher and blow them dry with a blow dryer. Makes for some very nice clean, silky cats. I don't usually go to these lengths for coyotes, but for a $500 to $1000 dollar cat, I'll spend a little time


Hero pictures from last few years.
The picture on the top, those 6 cats went for over $5000 at auction.

Those look very nice Foxhunter. Hard to argue with your approach.

That said, if they were pretty clean to start with I find that borax alone worked into the fur leaves them bright and silky enough.

I'm sure your right. I've been known to over think things from time to time. Everybody has their own way. Just wanted to post my way.

Yea id open up a beauty parlor too if i had cats bringing that much. These old brier patch cats ain't nothing to get excited about.

In '84 at a big tri state auction i had two crappy cats they tried to steal for 15.00 each i turned down and shipped off to Geo. I. Fox and got 35.00 for one and 65.00 for the other one. Wasn't hard to shop around fur back then.

Do you go to the Nephi sale?

Been going to the March, Glenn's Ferry {Idaho trapper's Association sale} for the past 4 years. Been very pleased with the results. Went to Nephi 5 years back and was not very happy.

Chris Christensen White Ice Chalk

Anyone ever used the white enhancing horse shampoos?

Dont know about bobcat but I will never wash a lynx pelt.
Lynx have a natural oil in their fur that makes it shine and glossy.
Wash that out with soap and they lose that nice shine and feel.

Sad 25 years ago all i had to do was tie the feet to the body and drop in the freezer and sell whole for 75.00 each no matter how big or what color they were. Now they have to go the beauty parlor to even get any attention, lol.

Savell those are some good looking cats.