Racing Heart...something came too close for comfort...UPDATE Pg 2**

[redhen]

we have one that hunts around my house also..my husband actually saw him in a tree in our back yard one day..but he thought it was a bear cub..lol..by the time i ran outside..he was gone..dang!..i wanted to see him..and about a month ago he saw him crossing the road 2 houses down from us..so he's still around...i wish i was ballsy enough to have a gun..and know how to use it....these workers at petco were telling us that they will sometimes come through your screen after a cat or something..

....although that could be why the feral cat population has gone down around us...

..... but anyways,those things are nasty!..hope u get him!!..Wendy

 

[purplebaby]

does any one know if we have them here on long island?

 

[purr]

that happened here in Ma, one tore through a screen door and grabbed a cat and dragged it off.
It was identified by the fur it left stuck in the screen door.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

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There are lots of porcupines in Oregon, Washington, ......pretty much everywhere. They're very timid and reclusive. Why they'd want to introduce fishercats of all things to control them is a mystery. That'd be like turning a fox loose in your hen house to control the flies.
The so-called "experts" at it AGAIN!
Are they going to introduce Siberian Tigers to control the Fisher Cats when THEY get out of control??

It's not an introduction of species but a reintroduction of a native species that was hunted or driven out of their territory by humans. Excessive porcupines can lead to extreme tree loss because they eat the bark and inner bark of trees which can kill smaller trees as well as damage and sicken adult trees. With no natural predators there is no way to prevent porcupine destruction. Releasing fisher cats was a natural way to control porcupine populations.

Well speaking as someone who has to deal with reintroduced animals to the area. What a bunch of Bull. I think that anyone who decides to reintroduce animals into an area should have to deal with these reintroduced animals in their back yard.. I have to deal with animals that have been brought back by people who don't live here and never will. I would like to see them deal with a wolf ripping their pet dog apart in front of their children. I would like to see them come face to face with a wolf pack. I am so tired of people who talk the reintroduction of an animal as such a great thing, have them dump them in your back yard and in 6 months tell me what a great thing you think it is. It is easy to say oh save them what else should they do but hey when you are not the one having to live with that choice it would be easy.

Sorry rant is not meant for you in any way, it is just a touchy subject with me as I have the wolf pack here to deal with and it is not getting better. The wolves they dropped off here in the UP of MI are/were problem animals caught somewhere else. They are even going into the dens of bears during hibernation and killing them. This is an on going out of control problem and it can only get worse. Also the reintroduction of the wolf was not even the wolf MI had. They introduced the red wolf and we had the grey here. We were getting along just fine with out the wolf. If ya would of asked us we would of said no Thanks you can have them in your back yard.

 

[Miltonchix]

Every time so called "experts" screw with the current natural balance they make things 100 times worse than before. Nature has a way of taking care of itself without these do-gooder meddlers!

 

[tressiah]

Yo mama !!!!
I nearly peed my pants !!!

I'd run too ! Hope you get it before it gets you or yours !

 

[menageriemama]

Ack! I feel for you Cetawin. We have fishers-a-plenty here

In the last two weeks, I have taken to stalking around the woods at night with my shotgun and headgear flashlight. I am sure I look like a crazy person. We have a predator problem and have so far been unable to determine what species the little devil IS, but it has efficiently killed 2 chickens, two guineas and a duck. We think that it is either a fisher or a coon, and I have morphed from a card carrying Sierra Club member to backwoods huntrix with a grudge. Hope yours goes away and never comes back!!! Otherwise, take Mahonri's advice

(*laughs maniacally*)

 

[Reinbeau]

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Eggzactly what jumped to mind when I read the cry description. It's an unearthly cry! We have them around here.

 

[bluey]

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Tell me about it. I used to be mild mannered city boy and didn't even own a gun for the first 42 years of my life. Now I'm a gun toting chicken owner and kill the predators by shooting out my bedroom window while my wife sleeps a few feet away! She doesn't even wake up....it's great!!!! Neither I nor my game cam has seen a predator in 2 months and counting...

Good luck Cet and keep us updated....

 

[ChickenSmitten]

I was excited when I thought we had a fisher in our woods. They are an indiginous species and remarkably beautiful and talented. Yes it puts my chickens and kitties at risk. The kitties come in at night and the chicken pasture is covered with wire and the periphery has a low voltage electric fenceline about 2 feet off the ground. This keeps the foxes and racoons and badgers and other critters hungry for chicken at bay. I live away from people because I love nature and seeing the animals that live in the woods and fields and river abutting our property... They were here first and it is up to me to keep the balance and fit in, and not by killing everybody that doesn't fit into my plan. Just my perspective, don't mean to pick at anyone.