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Baby Fisher Attacking Baby Deer
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Posted on 06/10/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by 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?


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I've seen fishers attack cats, rabbits and other smaller animals - has anybody ever seen this?
1 posted on 06/10/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

what is a fisher?


2 posted on 06/10/2021 8:57:47 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: davidb56

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)


3 posted on 06/10/2021 9:03:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: GreyHoundSailor
For the 99% of the people here at this forum who have no idea what he's talking about:

The fisher (Pekania pennanti) is a small, carnivorous mammal native to North America, a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. It is a member of the mustelid family (commonly referred to as the weasel family), and is in the monospecific genus Pekania. It is sometimes misleadingly referred to as a fisher cat, although it is not a cat. The fisher is closely related to, but larger than, the American marten (Martes americana). In some regions, the fisher is known as a pekan, derived from its name in the Abenaki language, or wejack, an Algonquian word (cf. Cree wuchak, otchock, Ojibwa ojiig) borrowed by fur traders. Other Native American names for the fisher are Chipewyan thacho and Carrier chunihcho, both meaning "big marten", and Wabanaki uskool.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

4 posted on 06/10/2021 9:04:36 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: davidb56; ButThreeLeftsDo; GreyHoundSailor

You don’t want fishers ripping your flesh, to be blunt.


5 posted on 06/10/2021 9:05:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

A friend recently messaged that she tried to save a fawn from a snake, but it was too late.

Nature is brutal.


6 posted on 06/10/2021 9:07:55 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: Reddy

Nature is a Britch and then she kills you


7 posted on 06/10/2021 9:13:34 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
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To: GreyHoundSailor

What is a “fisher”?
What part of the country do you live in?


8 posted on 06/10/2021 9:16:46 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: alexander_busek

Thanks for posting the background. Fishers were brought to our State to decrease the porcupine population, which they did. Now they’re everywhere and they’re nasty little varmints. Those who hear a Fisher screaming in the woods for the first time think someone’s being murdered. It’s an eerie sound.


9 posted on 06/10/2021 9:16:52 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Momma deer was probably out foraging. Coyotes can easily separate does from fawns, but a doe could pretty easily stomp a fisher. I’ve heard of martens attacking deer in heavy snow.


10 posted on 06/10/2021 9:18:04 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Repeal The 17th

Northern Vermont - the part least infested by flatlanders.


11 posted on 06/10/2021 9:18:45 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: kiryandil
Indeed.


12 posted on 06/10/2021 9:20:24 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Haven’t heard of fishers. Is it this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)


13 posted on 06/10/2021 9:21:32 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: GreyHoundSailor
Fischer attacking -


14 posted on 06/10/2021 9:22:35 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: gundog

I’ve seen doe stomping a dog who got too close. Usually when a fawn is crying any deer in the vicinity will come to assist, and we have plenty of deer.


15 posted on 06/10/2021 9:24:32 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

I remember a giant, friendly dog they belonged to someone else that came home with a dent in his head from messing with a deer. I


16 posted on 06/10/2021 9:31:49 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ransomnote

Yes - they mean, nasty little creatures.


17 posted on 06/10/2021 9:32:04 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: GreyHoundSailor

I’m sure Fischer will take fawns- they are kinda like a wolverine, only smaller- maybe less ferocious, but still nasty tough critters- and wow does their scent stink- newborn deer will hunker down and remain still, because they have no scent supposedly, and that is part of their defense-, but animals do stumble across them- a Fischer is fully capable of killing one- they have wicked strong jaws- gotta have strong jaws to be able to gnaw through frozen carrion, which is part of their diet- anything they stumble across-


18 posted on 06/10/2021 9:33:29 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: gundog

I surprised a six pointer while walking up our driveway - when he started dipping his head and pawing the ground I knew it was time to back off.


19 posted on 06/10/2021 9:40:45 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: alexander_busek

I’ve never even heard of a Fisher myself. But I have seen a Ringtail


20 posted on 06/10/2021 9:48:12 PM PDT by KTM rider (Expatriated at home by no choice of my own)
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