I think the March sale is a “dealers only sale” because the bobcats belonging to dealers are the only ones that didn’t sell due to high values.

The past couple of years FH has NOT offered any fresh cats at all on the March sale. All fresh cats (meaning cats that were shipped during the 26-27 fur season) were held for the June sale.

They do this for several reasons -

- by offering all fresh cats at one sale, they are able to offer the best collection possible.

- the last receiving date for the March sale is early enough that many cat trappers, especially in the west, are still trapping and don’t have their pelts ready to ship

- MOST important reason - processing bobcats (and other CITES species) takes a lot of time and man power. Every tag has to be recorded and double checked. If even one digit is not correct, the entire shipment can be delayed. USF&W is very thorough in checking CITES tags. Because of this long process, FH chooses to do bobcats all at one time and that is for the second sale. Which makes sense to me.

thats ok its there sale they can offer what they want but dont sugar coated it tell the truth. march recieving dates allow same amount of time the june one does. FHA never had any troulbe with cities unless big buyers still have large percentage of cats there. and its always march sale they have trouble with never the june sale.bottom line they want to only offer buyers cats so the only option is to buy those cats.... i exported hundreds of cats threw cities process last year with no issues.