Sabre Cat Snow Pelt

Sabre Cat Snow Pelt comes from the white snowy sabre cats of Skyrim’s north and tans into four pieces of Leather.

Sabre Cat Snow Pelt is taken from the snowy sabre cat, the tougher white cousin of the tundra cat. It is worth 40 gold, weighs 2 and tans into 4 Leather, the same as a regular Sabre Cat Pelt but with a noticeably better sale price. It also counts for the Animal Pelt Collection.

How to get it

Hunt snowy sabre cats in the snowfields of the Pale, Winterhold and Eastmarch. They blend into the snow until they are already on top of you, so keep an eye on the drifts. Hunters and Orc hunters carry these pelts, and general goods merchants such as Belethor and Brand-Shei sell them.

Only three loose pelts exist: in Vittoria Vici’s House in Solitude, in Hag’s End and in the Greathall of Skaal Village.

Given the higher sale price, it is a judgment call whether to tan it or sell it. If you only need a little leather, tan a cheaper pelt instead and sell this one to the nearest general store for the better profit. Either way, it pays off.

Smelting and tanning

  • 1 Sabre Cat Snow Pelt → 4 Leather at the tanning rack

Used to craft

Sabre Cat Snow Pelt appears in 1 recipe in the game files.

Weapons and other items

  • tanning rack: Leather (1)

The number in brackets is how many Sabre Cat Snow Pelt each recipe needs. Bold labels are the Smithing perk the recipe requires.

Data from the Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm and the official add-ons): value, weight, ore veins, recipes and merchant lists. ID 0003AD6E is the item’s form ID for the console.

Where to find it

  • Hunt snowy sabre cats in the Pale, Winterhold and Eastmarch
  • Carried by Hunters and Orc Hunters
  • Loose: Vittoria Vici’s House, Hag’s End and the Skaal Village Greathall (1 each)

Crafting materials

Lore notes

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Where it appears

Solitude is the capital of Skyrim, built on a great stone arch above the sea – home of the Blue Palace, Castle Dour and the Bards College.

Characters connected to it

Belethor runs Belethor’s General Goods in Whiterun – the Breton merchant who’d sell his sister if he had one. Skyrim’s most quotable shopkeeper.
Brand-Shei is the Dunmer merchant in Riften’s market – the man you frame in A Chance Arrangement, and secretly born Brandyl of House Telvanni.

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Sources checked: Skyrim game files (Skyrim.esm, Dawnguard.esm, Dragonborn.esm): value, weight, ore veins, placements, merchant lists, recipes