Comments on: New England Fisher Cats

By: mike

mike — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:30:28 +0000

I heard my first fisher cat tonight ! That is a creepy sound. Very distinct sound…I googled fisher cat sounds and yup definately a fisher cat !! Now i guess we’ll keep an eye out for it ! -Wellington, Maine

By: Lynn M

Lynn M — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:44:23 +0000

I came home late one night to Wareham ,MA and thought I heard a woman crying/screaming in the woods behind my house. I listened for a few minutes and thought it was a pack of coyotes back there. Until, my step son told me about the fishers coming around the neighborhood I had never even heard of these fishers! I guess it was’nt the coyotes afterall!!! I hate rodents types! Id’ rather the coyotes.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:29:50 +0000

Matt, in reply to your question, the description does in fact sound like it was a Fisher. The only other animal that can remotely be confused with a Fisher Cat would be a Mink, but is smaller is stature. Mink are opportunistic predators but a Squirrel would have a fairly good chance of getting away. However, Fishers are excellent tree climbers and commonly prey on Squirrels. What state do you live in? In Maine, there is another species of weasel called a Pine Marten. Smaller than the Fisher, but tremendous tree climbers as well. They have not been documented in Mass. for quite some time.
I would definitely keep small pets indoors from dusk til dawn. Obviously, everyone knows how agile and quick cats are and still they are caught by these weasels. Keep in mind a lot of pets have been taken by Fox and Coyote only to be blamed by the Fisher Cat. Someone mentioned about kids possibly getting attacked. Only happened once here in Mass. Just tell your kids to not play in the woods. Animals should be the least of your worries…there are other predators out there if you know what I mean.

By: alison

alison — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:13:56 +0000

Live in Gilford NH and have a large fisher cat living in the woods behind the house. Loud screeching several nights a week. Keeping my chihaua and cat close to home now.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:35:14 +0000

I heard one for the first time last night. I’ve lived in New Hampshire my whole life is this is the first time I’ve ever heard one. I think they’re fairly new to the area. I hope their population won’t start increasing!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:58:15 +0000

I think I just saw a fisher cat! I came home early in the morning to see this animal carrying it’s prey, a squirrel, across my yard to my back woods, it hurried but by no means ran away from me.. it was all black, the size of a good sized house cat except short hair and skinny very much the shape of a ferret but too big to be one, does this sound like a fisher cat or another species of weasel?

By: cam

cam — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:03:19 +0000

me and my friend were hanging outside of my house and i saw a fisher cat staring right at us i was scared shitless

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:07:07 +0000

We have had what we believe to be fishers in our upstate New York (Delmar) neighborhood the last few weeks. Their sound is very unsettling, especially when it wakes you from a dead sleep in the middle if the night.

By: Shanda

Shanda — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:23:21 +0000

New Albany, Indiana…i Saw one near the woods by a neighborhood park ! ive never was one before or after that though never even heard of it til i googled it .

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:42:44 +0000

I first saw a fisher cat in Dedham, Ma, a couple of years ago in Dedham, MA.
I was looking out my window into back yard last evening when one ran out of the
small strip of trees and greenery, Mansfield, Ma.

The one I saw last evening was tan in color with a brown of black tail. The one I saw in Dedham was all black.

After seein one, you know when you have seen one again.