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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?


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: fishersrippedmyflesh
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To: Fester Chugabrew

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


41 posted on 06/11/2021 4:43:49 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: davidb56
Fisher
42 posted on 06/11/2021 4:52:35 AM PDT by nagant
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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.


43 posted on 06/11/2021 5:06:57 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

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?’”


44 posted on 06/11/2021 5:12:32 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: LibertyWoman

You then have to click again on the Fishers link.


45 posted on 06/11/2021 5:39:31 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Ann Archy

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


46 posted on 06/11/2021 5:40:45 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Chickensoup

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!


47 posted on 06/11/2021 5:45:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
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To: Libloather

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


48 posted on 06/11/2021 5:59:40 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: GreyHoundSailor

We lack fishers in East Tennessee

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


49 posted on 06/11/2021 6:03:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: snuffy smiff
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.

50 posted on 06/11/2021 7:57:56 AM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: central_va

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


51 posted on 06/11/2021 8:32:15 AM PDT by HeadOn (Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
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To: davidb56
what is a fisher?

Kind of like a big weasel.

52 posted on 06/11/2021 9:29:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: bert

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


53 posted on 06/11/2021 4:30:46 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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