I hate the skin a cat expression just for the negative connotations regarding my pet cats, BUT here is an interesting bit baout its history:

MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT

From Mike Reilly: "Anything interesting in the origin of There's more than one way to skin a cat?"

To a lexicographer, all phrases are interesting, it's just that some of them are more interesting than others ... There are several versions of this saying. Charles Kingsley used the older British form in Westward Ho! in 1855: "there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream", meaning that there are good ways of doing something, and then there are foolish ways, one of the latter being to give a cat cream in the hope of killing it. Mark Twain used your version in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in 1889: "she was wise, subtle, and knew more than one way to skin a cat", that is, more than one way to get what she wanted. The latter version seems to have nothing to do with the American English term to skin a cat, which is to perform a type of gymnastic exercise.