Kid walking to bus stop attacked by a fisher cat
Fisher Cat Attack – Department of Environmental Management Officials are searching for a fisher cat that attacked a 6-year-old boy on Karen Drive in Hopkinton, Rhode Island on Monday June 22, 2009.
Police say the boy was waiting for the bus with his mother and other kids, when the 20-to-25 pound animal appeared. The mother told the animal attacked when the group started walking away.
The mother kicked the animal off her son, and another child threw a backpack at the fisher cat. A neighbor eventually chased the fisher cat away.
The boy was taken to Westerly Hospital, and treated for bites on his leg. Fisher cats are relatives of the weasel. They tend to be nocturnal, and often prey on smaller animals like chipmunks and squirrels.
oh my goodness poor boy!!! i have a fisher cat living n my nieghborhood! i hear they can be very viciois!!!!!! be careful..
The poor boy! A fisher cat attacked my dads chickens last night and killed two of them.
20 to 25 lbs!! I don’t think they get that big. Is it possible it was a different kind of animal or more likely they grossly overestimated the size and weight. I understood that 15lbs is the upper limit.
I hope that little boy is ok. I have a 6year old and there was a fishercat in my back yard last night.
Shoot it
You know, Anonymous, although I don’t necessarily disagree with your solution in general, I don’t think putting a couple of rounds into anything is a good idea AT A CHILDREN’S BUS STOP. (But I like your cut and dry “problem? solution!” way of thinking.
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saw another one todayin East Haddam, CT. I’m with anonymous…shoot it (but yeah, not at the bus stop!)
October 9, 2009
Fisher cat just crossed in front of my car, 12 noon, on rt. 216 at the North Stonington line, in Hopkinton RI. I never saw one before and had to look it up on this site…….it was a fisher cat indeed……. everyone becareful out there.
kid got rocked. dont mess the fisher cat
I use my surface to air pellet artillery to take care of the squirrels at my bird feeders, then I just leave them on the ground so that the fisher cat can take them away at night. They have to eat too you know. If I miss a day he stays under my window at night and makes his sounds.
A fisher cat killed my pigeons last fall (2009)… It came onto my porch, got into the cage and ate all but one of my purebred birds… the one left had to be euthanized because her leg was torn almost completely off. Therest of my birds now have to live in a cage in the garage! Fishers are sneaky, vicious and nasty…. why the DEP reintroduced them to this area is beyond me.
DO NOT SHOOT IT THEY WERE HERE FIRST NOT THERE FAULT THEY ARE BEING PUSHED OUT OF THERE HOMES BY GREEDY HUMANS
having a fisher cat taking out cats in the neighbor hood harassing my dog eli (100lbs Akita German Shepperd) witch he hasn’t attacked but only ran away and stood its ground too eli. and max (rotty) up the road chained up tho always barkin in the middle of the night. WTF Mauser should do the trick
According to Dr. Roger Powell, an expert (probably ‘the’ expert) on fishers, the biggest fisher on record is 20 pounds, so this could have been a fisher with an over-estimated weight. Even if it was a fisher, it was a rare event for a human to be attacked. I would assume they also treated the boy for a possible rabies infection.
there are fisher cats near my house too so i’ll pray for us all
My neighbor had about ten living in his backyard( there is woods in his back yard)
Fisher Cats are just an annoyance!!! to the earth!!!
poor boy!watch out they sound like kids screaming!
I understand that fisher cats were captured and killed in the 1900s(?). They moved to PA, VA and WVA. The porcupine population then got out of control, and for 50 years or so, towns paid a bounty for porcupine paws–I dimly recall this from my early childhood.
These laws were removed and the fisher was brought back to create a balance, that is, eat the porcupines, which they are able to do–one of the few animals that can.
Meanwhile, turkeys were reintroduced, and that has been very successful. Fishers are useful in keeping their numbers down.
As for house cats being out and about–bad idea; they decimate bird population and belong inside, particularly at night when they are susceptible to the wild animals. In the west–where people build their subdivisions in the woods–one must be mindful of cougars–and you really have to keep your little ones close at hand when hiking. So do count your blessings! I once decided not to buy a house in Issaquah in the forest as I didn’t want to have to worry about that. I worry less about the fisher cat–except when they wake us up at night and we all ask each other–did you lock up the chickens? –while the dog barks madly.
As for killing squirrels–do hope it’s not the red, as they are endangered by the more aggressive gray.
I wish that they’d eat the groundhogs/marmots/woodchucks….they’ve multiplied and are making a mess of the place–kids attached to them. I wonder why they can’t get these critters? Perhaps because groundhogs are out in the day, and fishers are out in the night?
I live in Hopkinton, MA and saw one two weeks ago in my yard. It’s the second I’ve seen in two months. I was carrying my senior dog out back for a widdle when I noticed the Fisher 8 feet off my back porch. Slowly, I backed up and placed dog back in house. I stared at the fisher studying its face trying to discern exactly what I was looking at. It was 8:00 p.m. at night. As I stared at her, she stared back at me. After I yelled at her to get out, she ran towards my house along the hedges and darted across street. I got in my vehicle to see if I could see a glimpse as I thought she ran into the woods. She was in still in the street scraping berries that had fallen off trees. She was a good size and looked very sneaky. A few months prior to this, a neighbor told me they saw a Fisher fighting with a racoon in our garbage. I’m extremely worried for my small dogs. Thinking of getting a bb gun or something to protect my children and dogs. Don’t want to kill them but they are encroaching on our boundaries.
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