Carole's WOES Safari Guide tells us that Elsa was purchased at an auction in 1992. It does not say that she was then 'brought to' BCR. Carole's 1997 inventory shows that Elsa was purchased in October of 1992 for $225 while Carole's hand-written USDA acquisition forms put the purchase date at 4-6-93; the same date she gives for Pretender and Precious, who were also bought at the same auction in 1992. This discrepancy in acquisition dates is probably due to the fact that Carole has never admitted to her donors that she was buying cats at auctions to breed prior to her "rescue' of 56 bocat kittens in 1993. See bobcats The Great Pretender, Precious, Czar, and Nakita for more information. These cats were not rescues.