cant find snow sabre cats, is this a bug?

[Permafrost]

ok, i need to collect few sabre cat nails and snow sabre pelts, i was wandering around snowy hills near winterhold,dawnstar and windhelm, i see only snow wolfs,white foxes or just wolfs, what the hell? and any of the traders dont have what i need, cant find wandering hunters to buy this stuff as well. I've been searching for hours and i have no idea how is this possible. I also play unmodded vanilla

[SpeedFreak1972]

the nails can also be obtained from regular sabre cats the nails are not that specific.

[Skumboni]

Walk the coast line from Dawnstar towards Windhelm I usually find some there.

[Permafrost]

Originally posted by Skumboni:

Walk the coast line from Dawnstar towards Windhelm I usually find some there.

Thanks, will try to do that

[Permafrost]

Originally posted by SpeedFreak1972:

the nails can also be obtained from regular sabre cats the nails are not that specific.

i know, but i need snow sabre pelts as well :(

[Nova Solarius]

What level are you? The pelts don't get sold until level... 12, I think.

[Ihateeverybody]

Hunters may also be a good source (dead and alive). There is a camp just northwest of the Shrine of Dibella near Dawnstar.

General Stores also sell.

In addition to Dawnstar to WinterHold they may also be found on the coast between Dawnstar and the Morthal Swamp.

They usually start popping Level 15+ but may be found earlier or later due to your mod list.

[xybolt]

Originally posted by Incubus:

I also play unmodded vanilla

That could be your problem. There's a bug in vanilla game that plenty of wildlife animals, including (snow) sabre cats are missing a respawn flag. This has a side-effect, if you have encountered them before, killed them, they don't respawn anymore.

USSEP fixes this.

[alexander_dougherty]

To get Snow Sabre Cats and Polar Bears you need to go north and east, they are common around Winterhelm.

[Death Approaches]

>> sabre cat nails

No such thing. Bear claws. Cat teeth.

Anyway, I was doing the college's Arniel's endeavor that sent me to Torvald's Cave, near Shor's Stone, that connects to Ainsvuld or something ruins filled with Falmer...

Anyway was 17th or 18th level doing this, and the first part, the cave before the Falmer and ruins part, was frostbite spiders and snow cats; never thought they were all tough til trying to solo 3 of them as low level archer. (BTW: 3 kitties for a steel arrow & barely improved Imperial bow archery 21 archer is a lot of backpedalling! Ran straight to a merchant and then to a blacksmith before tackling the Falmer section. )

Whether or not they are placed there or it's just rando leveled adversaries, I'm sure you could look that up on UESP or just drop by Torvald's Cave.

If you're really frustrated, just save the effort for more fun things:
1 - 'help sabre 0'
2 - PgUp to find the INGR and MISC form sections, for snow pelt and cat tooth
3 - 'player.additem <pelt_ID> <amount>'
4 - 'player.additem <tooth_ID> <amount>'
5 - PROFIT! (or you know, build your hearthfire decorations or whatever)