Country girl here, too-grew up on a ranch in W Texas, outdoors as much as possible. We don’t have those fishers here-just other weasels. We do have ringtails-close kin to raccoons-you see them mostly at night-cute critters. City people who live out here have never seen them before-if they live in gated enclaves instead of on acreage they are terrified every time they see the eyeshine of a ringtail, raccoon, or possum-or omigod, a mountain lion-in the trees at the edge of the woods.
They sometimes even call the game warden to come kill the monster-and he tells them to leave the wildlife alone-including the mountain lion. If they don’t leave out trash, pets or their food after dark, even the occasional bear won’t bother them, wreck the place or turn their pets into a fast food meal.
I will never understand why people move to someplace where they don’t like the environment or the wildlife in it. But are far safer in a rural area than in a city-just keep a firearm for stubborn varmints-like rattlesnakes, coyotes and the ones with 2 legs...
I don’t understand most things about people who move out here to the Maryland “ wastelands”.
I am a bit curious about the eventualities of the people on top of the mountain who put out food for their ever-growing bunch of black bears, though.