bobcat meat

[icehole]

Anyone feed bobcat meat to their hounds? I threw my pack some pieces yesterday and they wouldnt touch it. These dogs will eat anything from cat scat to their doghouse but they turned their nose up at fresh cat meat. I feed them raw elk and dear all the time and they eat like its their last meal. What gives with the cat meat? I cant hardly drag them off a cat in the feild but cut it up and they wont go near it.

[YotaDawger]

Try bob cat and you will see why they dont like it. Taste like crap...

[mike martell]

I feed my dogs the bobcat carcass and they clean it up. I had the dogs grab one of those high dollar Eastern cat hides and they ate it too.....When I'm in a location that is hard to get a cat out, About any place I hunt anymore.....I skin it and feed the dogs up.....I feed raw beef scraps/ bones as well. Some say cook it first? I feed all my meat raw. Think about the evolution of the dog? Nothing was ever cooked....I'm hunting one dog now that will rig a carcass and go get him some lunch if you aren't paying attention....

[al baldwin]

The mentors I started hunting with did not skin the bobcat when feeding the dogs. Take a big knife cut off the legs and toss it to a hound, they loved it. I started out feeding them the cat, but, I skinned them first. At a bear kill a 100lb bear would not be much to waste once the pack was full. We would drag a bear unbelievable distant for dog food. My mentor Tom was built like a linebacker in those days, I was about a 140 lb. runt, but Tom always said I could hold my own helping drag a bear. Those were great times. I stopped feeding the raw meat, when vet. convinced me dogs would stay a lot more parasite free when not feeding raw meat. Tom always told me that was bull, dogs could not stand hard running day in and out, without raw meat. A friend, Robin Sell was hunting some with us in those days. Robin knew Al Renick, they fought chickens against each other. At the time Al had no hounds, Robin was telling him about all the bear we were catching & how those hounds would eat most of a 100lb bear. Al said that was bull, Robin told him hell, seen then eat three in one day. Of coarse that was not quite true, however we had caught three a couple days before and the hounds had ate at all three kills. Robin got a big kick out of that, he is a character, 72 & still driving log truck. Stops by my place with logs some days, we enjoy a good visit about those old hunts. In those days if you left a bear & right person knew about it, likely you would not be allowed to hunt there anymore. Al

[box rocker]

I think bobcat taste pretty good. Any bad taste is in your head, bad cooking or bad meat prep. Do the dogs that won't eat it catch many of them ?

[1bludawg]

30 or 40 years ago,down around Grants Pass I heard of a Chinese man that ran hounds.Any cats he caught he took home and ate.A friend at work wanted a bobcat to eat so I caught him one.He and his family tried it. They didn't like it.Also about 35 years ago I had a little female that loved cat meat. When she caught 1 on the ground she would have it eaten if you didn't get to her quickly .On another similar note it seems people and dogs alike are fond of cougar meat .

[mark]

Mike, that dog has started a lot of tracks off of those kills and gut piles, but if a cat hasnt been there for a while he will darn sure dine a little. At least he dont roll lmao

[mike martell]

I think it is mind over matter on the taste of bobcat....On a Superbowl Sunday in B.C. we skinned and cut up a lynx and wolf and fried them up....The Lynx was like bobcat and the wolf....Well...... it was not so good, I couldn't get beyond eating dog........But it was dead! Cougar is good....An old bear hunter that drove for Carlton meat packing back in the late 70's talked me into letting CMP smoke/cure the hams of a cougar....Pretty tasty!

[mike martell]

Mark

He dang sure can tree his own bobcat and he dang sure loves raw meat...I caught him on a deer carcass in Southern Oregon tanking up. Though several tracks he has started have been off those type of kills on Gray fox.....He will never starve in the woods! I think he learned that bad habit from hangin out with me at the drive up window, grab a cheeseburger to go?

[mark]

When Sugar was alive the two of them could have a cat unzipped and half eatn faster than i could believe.

[LarryBeggs]

In high school I used to bring cat and coon carcasses to the biology teacher. He would cut open there stomachs to see what they had been eating.Coon didnt stink much. The cat would clear the classroom. Smelled like rotten meat. Last winter my oldest son wanted to taste one. When he cooked it up the meat didnt smell much different than the stomach did. Not for me. I have had some dogs that would eat it and some that wouldnt.

[Tim Pittman]

If I skin it in the woods, they get it then. Otherwise I skin at home bone it out, through it in the crockpot, use the broth on dog food at night, feed chunks of meat before I load up in the morning. Cougar I like better, the dogs prefer bobs, I've fed it side by side mine eat the bob meat first [being crockpotted]

[mike martell]

Okay Larry....Now you are time dating yourself! You would get kicked out of school for bring cat and coon carcasses to school these days! Back in the Tucker Bates fur days, We would drop our hides off at the fur shed and sell those carcasses to the Chinese restaurants. Two dalla fo tini..... three dalla fo big.....u get bobcat? U get coyote? I trade u food in restaurant...I buy!.....I was friends with the health department lady....One time she caught me and said....What the he@@ are these people doing with those carcasses? Are they serving them?....No, I told her they sell them in China Town......She made me cut off the feet and tails from then on and said....Carry on!....I thought to myself, no it's Carrion....
The Good old days!

[TomJr]

Mine like to let the cat meat age abit before eating... They will take a fresh piece and run off with it and bury it, then dig it up a day or two later when its starting to turn, yum! Dogs...

Lion meat is very good, much like tender pork. However the last 3 lions taken over my dogs had just eaten a skunk. The meat didn't taste like skunk but cutting open the stomach almost caused a few people to lose their lunch

I have not tried bobcat, don't really know why. It seems like it should be very similar to Lion...

[Dads dogboy]

Our Hounds have not been bad to eat a Caught Cat, however the East Coast Hunters have their Hounds eat a Cat or Fox before they can get to the Hounds to pick up the game!

I have given this Recipe before.....try it before you diss it!

Pull the Loin or Backstrap out of a large Cat taken in the Winter (less chance of picking up an undesirable element), wash it well and get any Fat or membrane off.

Cut into 1" thick slices, marinate the medallions over night in Zesty Italian Dressing.

Dredge medallions through buttermilk then seasoned flour

Drop in an Iron skillet with about 2 inches of the Dressing used as marinate and oil heated over a med-high heat till oil sizzles when a drop of water hits it.

Brown well on each side, this should leave the center cooked but not dry.

Make a gravy with left over flour and dressing.

Steam some Asparagus and open a bottle of Merlot or Shiraz and enjoy!