Not edable … Unless your starving or something drastic. I ethier get them full mounted or have the pelt tanned and I hang them up. If the bullet hits a bone on exit and blows through and does a lot of fur damage, then I just save the tails.
White light will scare them … When I do my predator hunting I hunt 95% of the time at night, under a red light (One on my hat for scanning eyes, then a scope mounted red light for the shot)