I mean what did it do? We were woken up at 5am from what we thought was a woman screaming in the front yard, but it was 2 fishers walking in the street out in the open with no woods nearby screeching. It ran all along the berm which is about 60 feet long then down across our driveway to the wooded edge which goes down the behind our house. Don’t have a problem with anyone killing one. Loud screeching several nights a week. really dumb response. Keeps your cats safe healthy and clean, keeps the cats from killing song birds (big problem in song bird numbers declining) and keeps our last few prdators safe from irate pet owners . I’m sure my hair was standing on end. Last night I spotted an animal larger than a cat, but smaller than a dog, trotting toward a wooded park at the end of my street in Maynard. Just park a chair and a thermos of coffee out by the coop for a few nights and get it done. In Luther forest Malta, NY. i came home, and googld it, and this site said that they can swim, so i believe that that is what it was. It is very dark out there and I was very uneasy being there. It is a a gift to have wild animals around and see them. I’m not keeping my family locked in the house on our 115 acre farm. Seen one a few years ago on Pelham rd. One friend of mine leaves food out at night for ferral cats and skunks. The one I saw last evening was tan in color with a brown of black tail. I drove past a fisher cat that had been struck off of 495 North from Lowell to Andover. I think he was more scared of us than anything else. We live in West Warwick, RI and have heard this ungodly screeching sound in the night for the past few weeks. I think in very remote areas fisher cats get very big and can take out just about anything. Also, since fishers eat rodents of all sorts, perhaps eliminating seed filled bird feeders will reduce the local population of chipmunks, mice and other moochers which attract the fishers to some properties. The horse did not make it. I live near the Boxford sighting. Small head and like a skunk; Cat like movements. About that time the fisher cat started down the tree trunk. I have never heard of them before. and i have a fishercat in my area, I have seen it in my yard and have had to chase it away when it was comming after my . There screech is very scary and i would not want to be around one, there very scaring looking like a rat type face, there screech sounds like an older woman getting murdered kind of like a crying scared women. I have seen one in the Blue Hills, which are not far from here. It went over by a big Pine Tree and just laid on the ground. He’d treed a fisher cat. At first I thought it was a person stalking me, it sounded just like that! We have 6 acres, heavily wooded. We have a 90 pound dog, who is not left outside unattended, and I always go outside with my dog at night for the final pit stop of the night so am not too worried about any encounters there but what a way to wake up! Fisher likely occurred at varying densities throughout most forested regions, with the possible exception of the far southeastern counties. When my cat got locked in my neighbors garage for a week, I thought that maybe a fisher had gotten him, but my cat showed up when they opened their garage door. Safety first! I live in Ashburnham Ma. Long black bush tail was sticking straight out behind it. Now i think it could hav ben a fisher.We have a watershed down the road, and recently walking to the bus stop i saw something that i thought was an otter in it. I hate to keep him in the house for the rest of his life. We have had coyotes prey on our sheep. Somerset MA. I snapped a couple real good pics on my phone, but I need to extract them and post it on this site. Used for cats. We suddenly heard this very loud screech/cry which to us sounded like a child or woman crying/screaming for help. has anyone ever seen a fisher live in a den? I don’t care if you are on large amounts of acres they are prey to both coyotes and fisher cats. I heard a fisher about 2 years ago, and heard it again this week and I wanted to know more about then. Oct. 18, 2008. Yesterday afternoon around 3:30, a fisher ran out right in front of me while I was driving home on Wesson Street. My husband and I saw a fisher walk through our backyard and into the woods behind at 7:20 this morning. Indoor cats seldom want to go out, if ever. We also have cats and dogs and small children-We can’t go outside because the mosquito and deer ticks will kill us and now our animals have to be protected from these awful creatures. Come on! Unfortunately I am living in Maine now and my cat escaped near the vet’s office in an unfamiliar area, “displaced” is the term they use, and there is a lot of wooded areas and I fear for his life as he was only 3 miles from home and hasn’t showed up for a month. It looked at me and ran away. Sharp, partially retractable claws let fishers scale trees like a cat. I pulled back the dog (who hadn’t even noticed it) and walked away as fast as I could, turning back to watch it. It was right out back of our house and while I can’t see the animal, hearing clips of a fisher cat makes me believe that was it. Tired of living this way! No way can I find someone to set the traps – they all say they won’t mess with this animal because it is so vicious. You are a selfish, uneducated fool if you think that they are a threat. We lost a cat to a fisher two years ago, and now have two indoor cats. Thought it was just some creepy cat but I listened to the clip and determined that this was it! 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