Comments on: Red Fox Sounds or Fisher Cat?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:05:50 +0000

Sounds like a fox to me. We have a lot of red fox around our neighborhood (Andover, MA) and they sound just like that.

By: Marilyn Tabor

Marilyn Tabor — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:22:52 +0000

Sounds like a gray fox when marking his territory.

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:26:52 +0000

A few years ago we heard a scream like that coming from a field across the street in the middle of the night…at first we thought it was a cougar( I live in British Colombia) but when we searched the noises on the computer, the cougar sounds were different…then we figured it was a red fox after finding an identical sound on the internet…then last night we heard it again at about 1 in the morning for the first time in about 3 years…my brother showed me the fishercat sound and it was identical to this sound here but the foxdoes sound very similair…Its hard for me to detirmine what animal it is becuase the sounds are really similair but im leaning towards fox since ive seen many foxes in my neighborhood and Ive never seen a fishercat in my life

By: linda mccutcheon

linda mccutcheon — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:49:19 +0000

Hi.

You’re second video is a Barred Owl. Your fourth video sounds like a coon fighting with a cat.

Cheers from Canada.

Linda.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:54:09 +0000

Thank you so much for this!! The sound I heard makes sense now as there are a couple of red foxes denning near by. I was awaken around 3am and heard this. It was very eerie and I was determined to find out what animal it was. Mystery solved!!
Yes, I agree that its more eerie then what you hear in the video. If I were camping and didn’t know what it was I would be getting in my vehicle to sleep. LOL

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:52:06 +0000

This is definitely a red fox – probably a vixen in heat. We have these behind our house – there was one last night. I live in central NC. We do not have Fisher Cats this far south. I have seen the red foxes on occasion, and this noise is quite familiar.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 22 May 2010 20:21:11 +0000

I live in the woods myself. This is definitely the red fox ‘bark’.

By: Constance

Constance — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:21:45 +0000

We have been hearing this noise outside our house in Machesney Park, IL for quite some time. We have a family of red foxes living very near by, and see them several times a week (sometimes even several times a day). I thought that this noise was the sound of bunnies being killed by the foxes, as I was told that bunnies make a horrific scream when being killed. Tonight I hit the jackpot, when I turned on the outside light to see if I could spot some movement in the yard. Sure enought, the fox came trotting into the light after a while, stood still, opened its mouth, and made this very same shrieking noise. I know for certain that it was the fox because I heard this sound come out as it opened its mouth wide. It sure does sound like the sound of something meeting its maker, that’s for sure.

By: Amy Dow

Amy Dow — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:01:29 +0000

My husband and I heard a fisher cat last night outside in our yard, the screech was far worse than anything we’ve heard before. We are used to the coyote packs and their crying, but this was much worse!
Lakeville, MA

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:26:32 +0000

Its a fox.

I was awakened to my rough collie dog barking and my wife poking me saying “are you going to find out what is wrong?”

I went outside holding the dogs collar and the scream was blood curdling. I thought a woman was being attacked in the dark of night. Then the sound came in fairly regular intervals.

It was loud. I would describe it as a very loud seagull noise. I saw the fox across the street. It would sit and wail. Then move quickly to another spot and crouch or sit and wail again. It did this over and over.

We live on an Island in a metropolitan area. (Doty Island, Neenah, WI) We have a den of foxes on the island and they are getting older. After reading this post and others, I think they might be setting up territories. It is late spring and I would think they mate earlier in the year.

When I let my dog go, she moved about 5 paces into the woods toward it, bushy fir and all, looked back at me and ran to the house. We had heard enough!