What in the heck is a Fisher Cat?

[KareyABohr]

They look like weasels...

We have mostly trouble with the red tails taking them in broad day light. Do all of God's Predators love chicken as much as me?

 

[la dee da]

This website has a couple of good pics and some info:
http://home.mcn.net/~wtu/fisher.html

 

[LynneP]

A neighbor lost her last 4 chickens recently to a fisher cat (aka pine marten). I've seen them, and though they are active largely at night, if given a buffet like chickens they'll kill at any time. From a distance it looks like the head of a tabby cat, often popping up behind a stump or looking down from a pine tree. They can kill cats and rabbits too, by a bite to the back of the neck. Diana's birds were beheaded. We're in a pine marten restoration area and it's illegal to harm them in any way. A secure coop/run is the only option.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Marten

 

[erinm]

chased one from my coop last year while brandishing an umbrella. Hubby thought I was nuts. Weasel! Weasel at the coop!!! It ran off , he was a big one, close to 4 feet, must have been a male. And the I saw a big one cross the road in front of me one day at dusk. another big one, same one maybe? Thay have a nasty rep. ErinM

 

[annmarie]

They're also one of the only animals that are fast, smart, and ferocious enough to kill porcupines!

 

[erinm]

They are as a matter of fact, the porcupines only natural predator.That is how aggressive they are. Erinm