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Drying/boarding with paws on #8314523
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Hello, would anyone know or have pictures of how to put up a bobcat/lynx/coyote with paws on for it to dry good to send to tannery? Thanks


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skin the feet down to the last toe knuckle and cut he toes off there leaving the nail attached to the hinge joint.
Trim the fat off the pads with a paring knife or poultry shears.
If you cant turn them inside out to dry salt the feet with pickle salt.Shake out the excess salt in a day or two and the feet will dry.
Once you get good at cleaning the feet and splitting the webs you can skip the salt.

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Re: Drying/boarding with paws on [Re: Annok] #8314769
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Boco and others walked me through this 3 years ago. Here is how I did mine. I let it dry for a day with the front arms dangling as shown and then pinned them down flat for shipping to the tannery after a day or two of drying. Skinned out the paws as Boco describes. A scalpel knife really helped me on the pads

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Great info and pics , thank yous both!


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