What you going to do with them?
Hardly worth shipping!
Well when cats are on the upswing it is good management to take some to keep the line healthy.I also snare rabbits in winter for nice rabbit stews,so where the rabbits are there is fur.I was always a multispecies harvester,just cant pass up easy pickins.
The big ones with the good bellies go to the auction,smaller ones get made into mountain man style hats,bigger ones with poorer bellies get used for hood trim on shawls and parkas,and some get sold to taxidermists(extra work) that buy at FHA.And some tanned ones sell as wallhangers or dodem to Native people.
With such a diverse market,it helps a lot when you know how to grade a cat before you decide which market a particular skin will go into.
They are not hard to sell because of their luxurious and deep fur.They stand out from all other furs.
Just got a beauty back from the tanner,XXXLwith white feet skinned complete with a beautiful wide heavily spotted belly and fur 6 inches deep.
Sometimes people want a pair of Otterskin gauntlets and I trim those with the silver back fur from lynx.The silver back fur really is a nice contrast on the black otter fur.