They enjoy domesticated cats, rodents and like to fish. Both times within the last couple of months. You must be fun at campfire stories… I don’t think an animal carries a gun…. My neighbour has 20 acres of bush behind our home and used to see lots of porcupines, now there are none. In three years since living in our home, there has never been any problems till this week. I’ve been telling myself all these years it had to be an animal, just so I can move on with life, but now I can proudly say, what I heard was definitely strange, and after checking these videos out and others, I am more convinced than ever that what I heard was not an animal. A few days later I saw what looked almost like a combination of an overgrown long haired cat/weasel slowly walking up my driveway and into the woods – it kind of sauntered and walked almost like a beaver would. and the people there guessed it was a Fisher. We thought this was the fisher cat because we have had past experiences had this animal start crying as if a baby were crying. Interesting reading…just lost both of my cats -1 week apart from each other. Please stop the fear mongering and learn to tolerate wild animals. There were a bunch sniffing around early this spring, but I haven’t seen one in a while. And,by the way it’s illegal to own a fisher!- or any wildlife, Actually “Max”, I’ve lived in Southern Rhode Island my entire life and I know for a fact that bobcats live here. For good red fox sounds goto: All of the above animals are indigenous to our area. What Does A Fisher Cat Sound Like Fisher Cat Gourmet Dad Don T Let The Title Fool You. Clip one \Weird noise behind my house\ is the sound of a red fox adult male. Absolutely NOTHING here sounds like the fisher cats in our neighborhood. It is the sound most people are probably hearing up here in New England. It’s a more childish scream, assuming that’s what I’ve heard out back. Sounded a bit like a kitten at first, then I realized it was something else. They ruled it a suicide… Yet my friend swears up and down that her brother would’ve never killed himself. I have had friends have a cat killed at the front door on the deck with a single bite to the throat! By the way, these animals are called fishers, not `fisher cats`! This is the exact sounds I’ve been hearing for the last two weeks behind my house,..none of the other videos and sounds I’ve listened to sound like this….this audio you have here is Identical to what I’ve been hearing,…especially the small grunt that sounds like an ape in between the screams sometimes….is this a fisher cat or a fox?? i was watching this with my boy firend and gave me chills hearing that sound. lol! First one I ever saw. Since I’ve never seen these animals, only one red fox two years ago, I was awakened one night two days after our cat was missing with a horrible screaming sound around 3:00 in the morning followed by a hollowing sound from a coyote. At first , the two things didn’t click in my mind — I figured well it must’ve been a racoon – what else could and would be able to tear open the door that way. Species name: Martes pennanti Head and body length: 50 cm to 70 cmTail length: 30 cm to 42 cmWeight: Life expectancy: approximately 10 years Oops! I often allowed my cats to go out at night until my 1 year old didn’t come back…. As with other members of the weasel family, fishers have a long, low profile when moving along the ground. i have heard of bigffoot; nessie; and the chupacabra but i have never seen anything more terrifing than the fisher! Fisher portfolios have vastly underperformed over the past 10 years. fisher do make a screeching, screaming sound that is extremely loud at night. It came about 5 feet from my deck. Sounds provided by Macaulay Library. I simply hate fishers. I met him on Instagram. You have presented no real evidence of a fisher making a call other than anecdotal and stories. The shrillness lends a certain high pitch to the sound and makes it sound like a woman or a child. If you have one actually witnessed (not just assumed) on video – you are the first. I heard a noise like that but more like a door creaking open or a baby screaming. im from east texas and weve reciently heard this exact thing near our house in the middle of the night…ive only spotted it once and its defiantly some kind of weasel…its not a fox or sreetch owl or bob cat like others have said..ive got abunch of outside feral cats but so far none have been attacked. Please count the number of beeps made when the … They ran across my yard.. they sounded BIG when they were in the woods in my back yard, running/walking/jumping in the brush. I should know, I have 3 of my own. i saw what i thought were three long black cats crossing the street from my neighbor’s yard to my yard then to a small wooded parcel adjacent to my back yard. The Video clip #1 and #2 on this page sound like owls to me but nothing is known about the location or origin of the video so they could even be tropical monkeys for all we know. long or so. This helped me because I heard a strange noise, definitely not your typical cat fight. The pictures at the top confirm it was a fisher cat. I believe a red fox, I’ve heard fisher cats scream and they are drawn out. Our cat of three years is missing. I would really be interested in seeing some tracks of a Fisher-cat (footprints). I heard a noise last nigt that had many different sounds it started like a small dog getting hurt to almost monkey sounds and a couple of snorts. my cats freaked out, and I went for a little drive to find the small dog that had been hit on the road or whatever that awful noise was. It was fisher’s, not foxes (both times). When I was in Wyoming, I heard pine martens fighting, and can those things ever squall (a pine marten’s a smaller cousin to the fisher). The same fox used to peek in our front door to see what was on the table for supper and my husband found him sleeping on our deck one morning. http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/thefoxden/redfox_distress.wav or http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/thefoxden/faroffcry.wav. Or you could be a responsible pet owner and keep your cats indoors! I wish there was some way to get rid of these nasty things. Just take precautions: keep pets indoors at night (cats, dogs, rabbits–whatever goes or stays outdoors); lock up your chicken coop if you have one; NEVER approach a wild animal, even if it seems tame–they’re often rabid when they seem tame and will attack without warning; if you see a wild animal in your yard or in close proximity to you, and it does NOT flee within 10 seconds, turn around and walk away slowly. the best way i found to get them away from my house is to let a radio (music) play outside all night and sometimes when i hear one crying i press the panic button of my truck lol they dont stay around . Around here they have been known to…tackle anything and are considered dangerous. Sorry. but rest assurred its more likely just a red fox! it is one and YES it can be proven. I think that it must be breeding time. when fishers make a sound it sounds like someones getting murdered in the bush. Paralyzingly frightening sounds from the woods “out back”. A cat a small dog, tame ducks or anything he thinks he can get at will do for him.Its a matter of survival. Rumor has it the county has brought these animals into our area. Then I heard a few other noises, then saw 2 animal silhouttes from the side shadowed from the moon WAY up in a tree face to face making so many different noises. It could have been a Fisher-cat! i turned on outside lights and found a fisher cat eating one of my hens. I will not be letting them out anytime soon now that the fisher knows they are here. Two of the most commonly-heard calls are the ‘bark’ & ‘scream’, perhaps because these are the loudest and can be heard for some distance. He reported that it was a raccoon. Yet it’s the clicking and whirring/whooing noise that stumps me. These animals have interuptted our peaceful small village and I think the county should be obligated to take them away. The fisher’s shyness allows us to mythologize it. Bullshit I saw the fisher carrying my cat away. I will get that door replaced and never have any foods stuff out there. They aren’t called Fisher Cats because people think they are cats, it’s because in most places people notice that they are fishing for their cats.