What Animal Is This?

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Posting for a friend who asked what this animal is. Found in central ontario area. Wasn't hunting, just observed it in his backyard. He estimated 8-10 pounds, a little larger than a cat.

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Fisher

Here is a fisher:

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Here is a Pine Marten:

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Careful - Fishers are mean little critters. Not something I would want in my backyard if kids or pets are around. They are well known for taking cats as meals.
 
beefman said:
Little Ba#%^#'s...they love to eat chickens, grouse, cats, turkeys and pigy-pines.
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You forgot small dogs.

It's a fisher alright... members of the weasel family. Big teeth, big claws, big appetite. Viscious little buggers they are.

I was duck hunting on shore last year, all cammo'd up, laying on the ground and almost had one walk right over top of me. (I made a noise when he got within a few feet, just to avoid an unessesary encounter) ;)
 
It's a fisher. Kill it. They will devastate a forest for wildlife. Not to mention attacking cats, small dogs, some deer, etc... It even tried to take on a hunting buddy of mine a few years ago, while he was sitting in the tree stand. Get rid of them...
 
CoKE said:
It's a fisher. Kill it. They will devastate a forest for wildlife. Not to mention attacking cats, small dogs, some deer, etc... It even tried to take on a hunting buddy of mine a few years ago, while he was sitting in the tree stand. Get rid of them...
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Doubt that would be legal in Ontario since they are classified as furbearers and are subject to the trapping regulations.
 
sjemac said:
Doubt that would be legal in Ontario since they are classified as furbearers and are subject to the trapping regulations.
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I don't know if I've met anyone that was really concerned about the legalities of it. If you see one its history. If you manage to hit one with the car back up and run over it again just to be sure:)
 
Fishers are cool animals. They are vicious buggers and are one of the very few animals that prey on porcupines. They run around the porker until it falls over then they attack it from the belly and kill it. My dog got in a fight with a male fisher a couple years ago, my dog got all cut up and the fisher got away although I think it got injured bad.


a male fisher pelt is worth big money in prime condition. Atleast they were some years ago.
 
Geez guys...That is a Alberta tree gopher. We raise them all the time and ship them out to the different provinces as natural cat control animals. The ones we raise with red eyes are sent down to mexico and they call them something like Chupacabra (sic) Those are raised to herd chickens and goats::cool:

looks like a fisher to me...:D
 
tjsudbury said:
So you and Coke are advocating that we break the law?
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Nope, not at all. Do what you want, but know that the Ministry do not consider them a threat. I tried to talk to one of their "biologists" a year and a half ago, as I had seen one of them on my game cams. She said they don't kill anything, the just clean up after. I tried to get in touch with the local trappers, but no one would get back to me.

Last year on my hunting property, I had hardly anything due to that thing. No squirrels, chippies, grouse, partridge, you name it. I had heard that some got it up the raod last fall, and I have seen the wildlife coming back this year.

What you do on your own property is your own business...
 
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