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Hey folks just a quick question. Anyone hear ever eaten any of the predators they have killed? And I don't mean Bear. I am talking about Coyote, Wolf, Fox, Bobcat etc. If so how was it? Thinkin of giving predator hunting a try and figured I would ask and see if they was good eats.

Cats are good.  Eaten several.  Never eat the liver of any though, especially dogs, as there is a protein or a vitamine that will poison you.

Ouch! Thats good to know. What type of cat was it and what did it taste like?

Mountain lion several times, and bobcat at least once.  Both are very good in my opinion.  White meat which is very much like eating lean pork.  Never have been either hungry enough, or brave enough to eat coyote or fox.  I know of a couple of guys that have and they seemed to enjoy it.

I've had bobcat. I found it to be a little dry.

Guy

cat okay, but I'm going to be starving before I eat coyote.

Cougar is tasty. Dog would make a fine meal, just don't ask me to eat it.  I would if hungry enough, I just haven't been there yet.

Lion is tops.  I wish I would have roasted and eaten some of my wolf.  Wasn't thinking about it at skinning time as I was hoarded by whitesocks.  Later I looked at a piece of flesh when I was cleaning up the skull, it looked and smelled alright and got me thinking albeit too late.

When I was in the Army, I went to Korea for a thing called Team Spirit. We did drills with ROK Army. Anyway, I ate some of the food there. I even ordered some Dog.. Nothing like fresh mutt..

The lady at the place I had it at, even walked outside and killed & butchers the dog for me.
Now I haven't had Yote or Wolf yet. But I would try it, Just to see how it is.

I have eaten possum thats how I got my nickname shot a possum thru the heart with my recurve! LOL

You guy's are hard core. Your talken "Donner Party" type menu!!

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Not my Jindo!

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Dog has long been eaten on this continent. I would double-check that 'liver poison' thing, I have never heard of such. Liver is too good to waste!

Killdeer

They say bobcats taste just like the normal household cats.LOL, anyone tries to eat my dog got some problems.

The only animal liver that I know you cnnot eat is Polar Bear liver. It has too much vitamin A and is toxic to humans. This info comes from old US Navy survival training booklet.

Ate the coyote in my avatar. I described it as "not horrible". It reminded me of dry, over-cooked beef roast from an old cow or bull. I like almost everything but won't eat another coyote unless I need to.

When I lived in MT, an "associate" of mine went to coyote shoots (hides were bringing high dollar then) and begged off the backstraps of the yodel dogs.

He made sausage of them (mixed with other meat trimmings of course) and tried to sell it commercially...he tried to bill it out as "recycled sheep"...but I don't think it ever caught on.

Given the spices and other "trim meats" you couldn't tell it from other sausage...  :)

Shot a fox in heat once...like workin on skinnin a skunk. Couldn't consider eating that... heard lotsa folks down South eat possum... thought about it till I seen one crawl outa the s. end of a dead horse facing north in a ditch...

Tex-Mex from Cleburne, Texas says on coyotes: "Make tamales out of 'em....nobody will ever know".  LOL I love that! Bobcat, yes...coyote...only at gun point! Killed, and skinned too many of 'em......hoooooweeee.

Mountain lion yes. Bear, yes. Dog, no. I've seen too many dogs eat crap to think about eating dog!

Mt.Lion
Bear
Gator
Shark(lots of fish are predetors I guess)
Turtle
coon
woodchuck
stuff overseas that I don't want to know.
Lion and bear are my best, no doubt.
Can't do the dog thing tho(I'm like Mike)

Best land critter I ever ate was mountain lion tenderloin.

mountian lion tast great.

For some reason mt. lion seems like eating bear to me, as for the rest of em, i think my belly button would have to be scratching my backbone for me to eat them.

Had some dog in Afghanistan.  It wasn't coyote, obviously, but the diet would have been similar.  It was edable, but I probably wouldn't pay a lot for it.  Haven't tried any of the other fine fare listed here thus far.   ;)

Never eaten one but enjoy walking into the bank when the ladies are discussing their cats. My normal response is, I like cats, but just can't eat a whole one by myself. Expressions on their faces, priceless.

Bear , mountain lion and Lynx are Greaatt ! I can hardly skin a Wolf they smell so bad!

I was taught never order anything from the menu with a frisbee in its mouth.

Speaking of liver poisoning, I have read in several wilnderness books that shark liver can be deadly. Probably not commonplace, but most likely that acoastal archer might take a shark with a bow.One source said that a single serving could be very serious, indicating that there is a severe concentration of vitamin A in the liver. Yes, it is an essentiel nutrient, but if this source is right, it is toxic in large amounts. I have never eaten any of these predators listed, and under normal circumstances would probly pass them up. But I have eaten horse and liked it.

35 years ago, bought 5 dozen homemade tamales from a Mexican lady selling door to door. My buddy Jose swore they were from her mean Chow she'd kept chained outside her house. We never saw that dog again. Chased my tail & howled at the moon the rest of the weekend. No tamales since.

This is one reference I could find about dog liver.  I don't know where I learned originally not to eat them from predators, specifically dogs though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A

The liver of certain animals — including the polar bear, seal, and husky — is unsafe to eat because it is extraordinarily high in vitamin A. This danger has long been known to the Inuit and has been recognized by Europeans since at least 1597 when Gerrit de Veer wrote in his diary that, while taking refuge in the winter in Nova Zemlya, he and his men became severely ill after eating polar bear liver.[5] In 1913, Antarctic explorers Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz were both poisoned, the latter fatally, from eating the liver of their sled dogs.[6]

Vitamin A itself was not discovered until 1917.

The livers of many other animals have lower levels of vitamin A and are commonly eaten.

The only " PREDATOR" I ever ate was a "nutty" chipmunk that tried to attack me in my treestand. He ran up my leg onto my chest and straight into my startled mouth !!! He took the lower left side of my lip off as I "CHOMPED" down on his main artery in his neck. Since I used up a bunch of energy ... I figured "what the heck" and put him down the food pipe. Not bad at all !!!  :)  
Just another normal day in the Ohio woods.... Jeff

p.s. Don't ever eat one ...gave me "crazy GAS !!! Just ask my dogs !!!!

Could not get past the smell of a yote.I would have to be five minutes from starving to death before eating one.

I've eaten gar very good filet meat but there is a warning the eggs are very toxic will make you deafly ill. Spent 10 days in ICU and no I didn't eat the eggs it came from cleaning the gar. Its been hard to eat much of it now, until bowfishing starts again!

Bobcat good, coyote bad.

I guess the only sort of predator I've tried was raccoon. I didn't care for it...way to greasy for me.

I ain`t eating no dang `yote.

Maybe lion backstraps, if someone else cooked them.

never ate a predator....doubt i ever will.have a friend who's family eats anything that don't eat them first.....  

Hmmmmm, anyone trade a Black Widow to see this bowhunter eat Coyote lol. Thanks for the posts folks, I think I will give predator hunting a try.

I have a friend that's an outfitter in British Columbia,his favorite all time meal is a cougar roast.  Says its better then moose and caribou.  Well never tried it but would if giventhe chance.

Mike

Grilled raccoon is a mite on the greasy side, but if my long term memory is correct, it's goes down fairly easy if enough Jack Daniels is involved.

I have ate mountain lion and bobcat, both were excellent. The edge going to mountain lion, very much like pork. I have also tried raccoon, fox, bear and coyote. Did not care for any of them but would eat them again if prepared right most anything could be OK! Shawn

Lynx is excellent, but very dry.  Have skunned a number of wolves and there tends to be a light smell thats tough to take, gets worse over time, so never tried the meat.

I've eat the bob cat and it was prety good and I'd eat it again, but I'm gona be fresh outa possums and skunks before I eat a coyote

Raccoons are super good if they are real young; and the meat is white.
Mountain lion is probably the best wild meat there is- its like veal.
Possums are very good; one guy wanted to solve the world food crisis by growing zucchinis- and feeding the left overs to opossums. I think that has some merit.
I had skunk once; and it was not revolting- it was in a lot of barbecue sauce at a game dinner.

I am not a liver liker; and I am a puppy people- so I have no intention of trying dog.

I had a hundred elk tonight in my hay pile; and when I went out to shoo them off- ( 2:30 am) there were wolves howling to the north of me.... perhaps I will be able to comment on wolf ( I have a tag!).

30 yrs. ago a guy I know had a pit bull. It nipped his son and within an hour that mutt was on the grill.

The only thing I've ever had the stones to try was cougar.  I will admit...it was delicious.  Think lean pork (my take on it).

The meat came from a native CO cowboy, who had been in the outfitting business on the west slope for many moons.  His favorite thing to do was chase cats in Jan/Feb with his string of dogs.  He said he had never heard of someone actually eating them until a client who booked with him asked if everyone packed the meat out.  He laughed and told him no one eats cat.....the client tells him he doesn't know what he's missing.  Ya really have to know this ol' boy.....anyway, the comment gets his mind to thinking and long story short, he eventually carries some meat back after a client gets one.....the rest as they say is history.  From what I gather, every cat they got from then on, the meat was kept. I remember him claiming one time that someone from Denver actually wanted to buy the meat.

Anyhow....someone figured out the cat meat thing long ago.

As for canines....let's just say we own dogs....seeing them in cages destined for consumption in certain parts of Asia is not a good memory.

I ate the entire mountain lion in my avatar.  Cut it into steaks.  Was great!  Only problem was:  For a couple weeks, I kept rubbing around on the couch legs and hissing when the wife asked me to work on the honey do list.  :biglaugh:

No way I would even try yote they are nasty critters but I would probably try mountain lion though if I had the chance.

I got a yote the first week of shotgun in MA and seriously contemplated eating it,the meat looked really nice,if I was trying to survive id definately  eat it,i guess the reason i didnt was cuz i had deer in the freezer from bow season.I was also concerned about getting a disease although I have never heard of any other than rabies

Only true predator for me was Black Bear which was surprisingly good. I would eat bear again.

All the others only if I was hungry enough... Then anything will taste good.

John III

About fell out of the chair reading some of these posts.  

"but I'm gona be fresh outa possums and skunks before I eat a coyote"

 What can you say?  

Lion is pretty good, and is compared to pork quite a bit.  Feral cats have to be the same.  I think if somebody came up with a really good recipe for feral cats, our song bird populations would soar.

Im hurting from laughing. Came real close to eating a coyote after i skined it out looked good , was in the woods too long . Me and my buddy chickend out . I think I would if someone did it with me.Could get one with mange that way you would not have to burn the hair off.

QuoteOriginally posted by Two Tracks:
Mt.Lion
Bear
Gator
Shark(lots of fish are predetors I guess)
Turtle
coon
woodchuck
stuff overseas that I don't want to know.
Lion and bear are my best, no doubt.
Can't do the dog thing tho(I'm like Mike)

Woodchucks are predators?   :scared:

In the Lewis and Clark Diary Cpt Lewis is speaking in the highest manner of eating dog and wolf, he writes dog tastes liek beaver and while the meat of deer and "wapetoe" was not nutritious enough during the winter the ones that ate dog got healthier and better. At the end he even prefers dog over most other meat and buys them from the indians for eating purpose.

I definately  could eat a dog, but not unless i have to. But, when i think of it, my girl friends dog is named "pork-chop"   ;)

Mountain Lion is absolutely delicious and I ate dog while I was in Korea and it was mighty good also but I haven't had that since I got out of the Army in 93.  Another meat most folks in the U.S. don't thibk about that is very good is Horse.  Joseph

OOPS   i thought you ment BLACK WIDOWS eating PREDATOR BOWS

HA HA HA HA HA

Fred Eichler and his wife ate some bobcat the other day on his predator hunting show. said it was real good

I had mountain lion once and thought it was good. Found many things good when doing Marine Corp survival school training. Well, at least good at the time.

Only predators i actualy ate were fish. Ohh and once a can of crocodile, tasted like mud with urine in jelly.  

I ate dog while living in the Philippines when social courtesy was called for. It was O.K. The only time I refused was when my Karate Instructor tried feeding me some of a dog I raised and gave him. It was at my Blackbelt Promotion party. I didn't know he was going to eat it when I gave it to him. I wouldn't eat Coyote unless I was starving.

Bear is also my only consumed mammal predator. Not too shabby!

I, too, was surprised that bear was indeed tasty...just thinking about how sickening a yote smells not even skinned makes nausea kick in.....a gut shot deer being gutted doesn't smell as bad...I can't imagine cutting into one....trying to eat one???  WHEW!!!

I prefer bear over deer any day....Bobby