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BigKennyBoy
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« on: November 03, 2009, 01:24:41 PM »
Do cougar's tend to have an overly greasy skull or are they not too bad?
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 02:55:43 PM »
My experience has been with two cougars and both required as much degreasing as a large fish eating grizzly bear, total time start to finish 5-6 months. After that amount of degreasing time they turned out awesome though.

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BigKennyBoy
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 02:59:52 PM »
Hey thanks a pile!
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sherpa-Al
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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 03:06:07 PM »
Forgot to mention that both skulls were quite blood stained and required a few times in and out of the peroxide bath to get them just right.
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 03:52:03 PM »
Al, Cats from my area are fairly easy. Main diet here for cougars is whitetail. Much easier to degrease than a black bear or coyote. Must be a diet/regional thing.
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2009, 04:52:25 PM »
Not too many big cats here where I live, but the two that i've done were deer eating machines from Alberta, maybe the deer's diet has something to do with them being so greasy?
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2009, 05:49:18 PM »
This is a whitetail fed cat too and the first few days in the soap, the thing almost turned completely black.  Never seen anything like it.  Kinda scared me, hope it will whiten!
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