bobcat meat

[Ker_man]

I once worked with a fine Itialian gentelman who had lived through WW11> Speaking of the hard times he had seen he said " I'll tell you how to cook a cat...but I've never eaten one..."
His instructions were very detailed. " You must kill the cat in November when it is fat.
Skin the cat and put in a cold flowing stream for three days
One onion, one stalk of cellery and one carrot.Add salt and pepper. Roast in a roasting pan until done. But I've never eaten one......."
And I don't plan to!

[Liz ODell]

I've eaten lots of them. I think they taste fine, taste like lion but a little stronger - if you never had either I could say the thing they taste the most like is lamb, if you hate lamb you'll hate cat.
My dogs are horrible about eating cats, if you let them have a hold of it for more than a minute or two or turn your back for a second they will be doing their best to split hide and eat it, I would say it really is probably their favorite wild game meat. My favorite is bear, but hey it's all good...other than grey fox...grey fox tasted to me like what a skunk smells like (and skunk meat ain't too bad).

[mondomuttruner]

I've only tried 1 cat and just like Liz said about grey fox, it tasted the same as a skunk smells. The initial taste wasn't so bad but the aftertaste was skunky. This was backstraps and chunks of hind quarters seasoned on the grill. Maybe it was a bad one but I'm not sure I would take the time to try a different one.

[icehole]

My dogs will tear the cat apart given a chance. But skin it cut off pieces and throw it out there and they act like your trying to poison them.

[david]

Man, what a fun thread. I just realized I don't laugh much these days. this thread kind of helped balance out the deficit. Wow. I ate my first bobcat. Actually I think it should be a requirement by law Part of it I soaked in soy sauce and smoked it into jerky. I really though it was pretty good. It is strange to me that iceholes dogs don't like it. I cant think of a dog that did not like bobcat meat. Not sure how that happens. Peer pressure maybe. Ice hole, if those cats have a long bushy tail, it might be the type of cat is the problem:)

thought I would be brave and try coon once. I know some people crave it. Just the smell of the par boiling was enough to make me puke. Could never get a piece within two feet of my mouth. I tried. Hard to admit failure. I have only had one dog that seemed to love coon meat. Otherwise it has been like icehole trying to feed cat.

Beaver now, if you ever need to slick up your dogs, or they are getting hunted down to thin, try beaver. Just throw a carcass down. They do amazing on it. You can get them from fur buyers or trappers. Might be 2.00 but worth every penny.

On my honeymoon in the Strawberry Wilderness of Oregon, I trapped a beaver for us to feast on. I thought it was really good. Had liver and onions. Not married any more.

[catdog360]

We eat a quite a bit of bobcat. We just take the quarters and generally make stew out of it. To me it's a lot like rabbit. But then again Liz I raise a lot of lamb and love it.

[mike martell]

On my honeymoon in the Strawberry Wilderness of Oregon, I trapped a beaver for us to feast on. I thought it was really good. Had liver and onions. Not married any more.

David

You crack me up! I have some good friends who live in Seneca and spend time bobcat hunting the Strawberry Mtn area and all over Grant County....

Merry Christmas Every one!

Mike

[tod watterson]

Ate it once . Me and my huntin partner had killed one in the morning . Cut another track and the dogs ran it down in a big hole and treed .I said I'd stay and skin the first one so he went down in to kill the next one .Well I skinned the one and hung the carcass in a mahogany and threw the hide across the top of his pet porter dog sled . I heard him shoot and figured he was coming up out when I heard the dogs strike and go again . A while later he made it out of the canyon with that cat , I asked him where the dogs were and he said they had started a lion . Well it was almost dark and they were outa hearing so we decided we would come back in the morning to get them .Went back to the sleds and one of his young dogs had got a hold of the fur on the one I had skinned and pulled the hide through the holes in the pet porter and ate the damn hide . All that was left was the head and all 4 feet that wouldn't fit through the holes . Well the next day we get back up to the same place and the dogs are treed in the bottom of the canyon so he heads down to get them . I built a fire and was sitting there waiting when I spied that carcass in the mahogany . I 've ate lion and like it so I decide to cut the loins off this carcass and flambay them up on a stick . Of course it was froze, so by the time the inside was done the out side was bout like a charcoal bricket , they were the good ones. I tried cooking some more on the medium side and it tasted bout like the way your pack smells after you carried one out of the hills in it and it was way greezy .When he got back with the dogs there was plenty left for him but he couldn't gut it either . The dogs ate it but they'd been out for 2 days . First and last time I care to give bobcat a try .

[Jkohnke]

Recipe for bobcat. 1 cat skinned. 1 cedar roasting board. Place cat on cedar with onions ,salt ,pepper ,garlic and worschertor sauce. Bake one hour. Throw cat away and eat the board.

[icehole]

You may be on to something David, I thought these colorado cats were black and white with bushy tails, dont tell me Im wrong again.

[icehole]

My dogs must be spoiled, not only will they not eat bobcat but they turned their nose up at lion too.