Out-of-state bobcat?

[danf]

Just wondering if you could give some feedback on this:

huntingindiana.proboards52.com/index.cgi?board=taxidermy&action=display&thread=1172693435

Thanks!

[buster]

In July of 2006 The Idnr removed the endangered status on the bobcat, otter, and badger. These animals are now considered as a protected, non game species. All you have to meet are the necessary requirements in the state where the animal is taken. If the animal is going to be sold I believe you have to get a CITIES tag from the state it was harvested in and then it may be sold. Even a tanned or mounted specimen must have the appropriate paperwork with it at all times. We taxidermist can now (finally) process these specimens for our local sportsman. We have to have a paper trail back to the state of harvest which would be a license, date of kill and hunters name and address. No problems then.

I couldn't have said it better myself. (Thanks hoosiertaxidermist)A CITES tag is required from the state in which the animal was harvested to be able to remove it from that state. I killed a bobcat in Texas several years ago and called the local GW to get my tag. It remains attached to the tanned hide that hangs in my office.