Baby Fisher Attacking Baby Deer

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[GreyHoundSailor]

Heard a fawn crying in our woods yesterday and went to investigate. About 150 yds from our house I saw a tiny fawn - couldn't have been more than a few weeks old - with a small fisher on its back, trying to bite the fawn's neck. Fired a shot over the fisher and it took off, along with another, much larger, fisher I hadn't seen.

Appears as though mother fisher was teaching the youngster how to hunt. Fawn was exhausted, but recovered in a few minutes and took off.

Never thought a fisher would attack a fawn, but perhaps the mother was young and bolted.

Anybody ever heard of fishers attacking deer?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I was in the same boat. I pictured a bird pecking at the doe before googling “fisher.”

[nagant]

[DoodleBob]

Kits (baby Fishers) are born blind, helpless, and are partially covered with fine hair. Kits begin to crawl after about three weeks. After about seven weeks, they open their eyes. They start to climb after eight weeks. Kits are completely dependent on their mother's milk for the first eight to ten weeks, after which they begin to switch to a solid diet. After four months, kits become intolerant of their litter mates, and at five months, the mother pushes them out on their own. After one year, juveniles will have established their own range.

[DoodleBob]

That’s a great, if not bizarre (in a good way) album. “a lot of people stand around on the corners asking questions, ‘Why are you standing on the corner, acting the way you act, looking the way you look, why do you look that way?’”

[mfish13]

You then have to click again on the Fishers link.

[mfish13]

It is there. You have a page that has another Fisher link. Click on that.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They town quietly got rid of a lot of the population a couple years ago.

The neighboring town has had a HUGE public argument about managing the deer population. Probably half the town wants them gone and half the town loves the deer (they are so cute, they were here first, we are living in THEIR land, etc). The population is out of control and it is not humane to have them competing for food in winter. To make it worse, the nearby Home Depot sells big 50 pound sacks of deer / turkey food!

The town is now full of “No hunting in our town” yard signs. And this is in North Idaho!

[PLMerite]

First thing I thought of. My speed-reading isn’t very accurate, but it is amusing at times.

[bert]

We lack fishers in East Tennessee

However, the deer (and stray cat) population in our neighborhood is said to be controlled by coyotes.

[LibertyWoman]

Thank you for that explanation. I have never heard of them. I'm in Missouri so I don't know if it's because we don't have any or what but I'm from a family of hunters and Fishers have never been mentioned.

Yes indeed...nature can be cruel.

[HeadOn]

HAHAHAHAHA! Someone my own age. They don’t use that emblem anymore, do they?

[JimRed]

what is a fisher?

Kind of like a big weasel.

[GreyHoundSailor]

We have those too - last one shot near our place weighed 68 lbs. They have a good bit of wolf DNA.