Fisher Cat Attacks Child at Bus Stop

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.

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16 Responses to Fisher Cat Attacks Child at Bus Stop

  1. me!! says:

    oh my goodness poor boy!!! i have a fisher cat living n my nieghborhood! i hear they can be very viciois!!!!!! be careful..

  2. Anonymous says:

    The poor boy! A fisher cat attacked my dads chickens last night and killed two of them.

  3. Dennis says:

    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.

  4. Jill says:

    I hope that little boy is ok. I have a 6year old and there was a fishercat in my back yard last night.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Shoot it

  6. Strega says:

    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. ;) )

  7. kathy says:

    saw another one todayin East Haddam, CT. I’m with anonymous…shoot it (but yeah, not at the bus stop!)

  8. Nancy says:

    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.

  9. fisher cat man says:

    kid got rocked. dont mess the fisher cat

  10. jerry says:

    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.

  11. Chris says:

    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.

  12. Anonymous says:

    DO NOT SHOOT IT THEY WERE HERE FIRST NOT THERE FAULT THEY ARE BEING PUSHED OUT OF THERE HOMES BY GREEDY HUMANS

  13. arcadia says:

    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

  14. Al says:

    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.

  15. cam says:

    there are fisher cats near my house too so i’ll pray for us all

  16. Peter says:

    My neighbor had about ten living in his backyard( there is woods in his back yard)

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