I accidentally caught a FISHER CAT!! Then I purposely let him go. No animals were harmed in the making of this video. Like and Subscribe for more CRAZY FUN
I'd much rather have an encounter with a groundhog then a fisher! They are the only animal that actively hunts/eats porcupine! They are ferocious, just like every member of the Mustelid family.
@@irishkelly654 The Fisher is confident in his speed to escape after the trap is open. Groundhogs will sometimes turn in defense. And they try their best to get you thru the trap. I've caught enough on my property to know. 😆
Well, that solves a 13 year old mystery. I was driving cross country with a coworker, and saw one of these off the side of the road, raised up on its haunches. He missed it, and based on my description of the animal, thought I was trying to mess with him. Now I know it was a Fisher Cat. Awesome.
Ikr!!!?? I'm a 100lb female and I've never been scared like this dude. I've been trapping since I could walk tho. Takes learning I suppose. Next time he'll be more confident
@@danykasilvernail I was 12 or 13, first racoon I ever caught in a trap, of of cheese wiz, grabbed a tree branch aka club and wacked this coon over the head , I wasn't strong enough to get the trap off its foot so I just carried the coon in the trap my the trap basically dragging it behind me back to the house. About half way across the field I was in, this coon decided it was NOT dead. and not only that it was PISSED THE F**K OFF !!!!! That thing came for me with a vengeance and a score to settle. Grabbed a hold of my leg and here I am in this wide open field screaming a war cry like no other. my pant leg is tore to pieces. I see blood everywhere. and this beast of a creature is having a field day of whooping my ass. In the heat of my screams I see my uncle come running and I mean a dead sprint run full bore wide open straight at me across the field and this goliath of a coon in full engaged war mode on my leg.. In one fail swoop and never breaking his stride my uncle reached down and grabbed this coon still in the trap and BODY SLAMMED this coon into the cold frozen ground. picked it back up and slammed it again. it was dead. he came up to me with coon in hand in trap and knelt down and looked over my leg , im crying buckets , he asked me if i was ok, and I said NOOOOOOOOOOO, he looked up at me, with his free hand picked my up and ever so sofly he said, Well , you are now.... oh i hugged his so tight.. so tight, and the rest of the way he never put me down or that coon . Grandma patched me up like grandmas do and told me , next time , make sure their dead before you move them. lololol I got 30 bucks for that hide , they said it was a jumbo size , that was in 1982 or 3. To this very day , any animal that has ever bitten me has died. And I will never forget the wrath of my uncle protecting me and his soft words of Are you ok ? Well , you are now .
@@modwrath810 that's a great trapping and family bonding story. Thank you for sharing that. My grandfather has been trapping, hunting, and fishing for 70+ years. He taught my dad, we were taught, and now my kids are learning from the master. To me, there's nothing more pure than nature and family.
@@danykasilvernail Your last sentence , To me, there's nothing more pure than nature and family., words to my heart, thank you for showing me I wasn't the only one left in the world who feels the same.
so many things wrong here folks. in the event it happens again. tell the kids to go inside and tie a bungee strap to a rake or a shovel throw a blanket over the trap it'll calm whatever is in it especially skunks and dangerous animals,like fishers! then walk the trap into the woods out of the yard hook the bungee to the door stand behind it and let her rip. oh and to the mom in the video don't stand on a trampoline if you're hoping to stand still. "Stop bouncing!" WTF is wrong with you lady?
U have no idea how lucky u were. I would have killed it. My neighbor caught one after it killed all of his chickens and the sob let it go!!! I have missing cats
You havent felt fear till you hear a fisher cat in the middle of the night when your camping in a hammock. They sound like a baby being ripped apart by a pack of coyotes.
The wife and I were visiting in New England years ago. We were walking up to the side doors of our hotel when I hear the blood curdling screams. I hunted all my life but never heard anything like that before. Again I'm from Ohio. I ask the wife WTF was that? After getting to the hotel room I did a bunch of searching and found out it was a Fisher. Pretty cool experience.
Hearing a Fisher is freaking scary. Was out with three dogs, one screached about a 100 feet away at night. All I could see was the two yellow eyes. My dogs, who chase everything from deer to Bears, ignored the fisher as they knew it was bad. They looked like “we don’t hear anything!” The Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Bay stater here, I lived out by the quabbin in the middle of the woods. Dead of the night, I’m in bed and hear the most terrifying scream what must have been no more than fifteen yards from my first floor bedroom window. (Glass open, broken screen of course.) Scared fifteen year old me absolutely shitless. One of the scariest moments of my life. I knew they screamed, just never imagined it like that.
@@TacoCrisma Yeah, mine didn't play that "ignore her" mess either. Still was kinda a douchebag move to run to the only place with a bouncy floor, in use, and tell everyone stand still. She's selfish AF.
@@silicontoad7186 not much of a difference the females weigh 4 to 6 pounds and are about 2 feet long the males are 8 to 16 pounds and 3 feet long that's a very big difference the biggest being weight.
@@brandondavis4306 yep! Just Google it myself. MALES = 8 - 16lbs, up to 3' feet in length. FEMALES = 4 - 6lbs, approx 2' feet in length. So, yea.. MALES, DOUBLE the size of females is WAY larger!
They'll kill dogs as well, but they especially love to get cats. They act all docile when they're caught in a cage, but they're pretty vicious and just eat every wild rabbit that's in the area and then turn on people's pets. They love to eat cats, and I sometimes hear people say "That's just a rumor," but it's very much not a rumor. Many, many of us have lost cats to the pricks. I really hate having Fishers anywhere near my property, for the sake of my domesticated animal friends that live with me.
Followup: we ended up domesticating the Fischer, he’s like part of the family now. His name is Nicholas, … Nicholas Caged. He likes beef jerky and Doritos
You clearly do not know just how dangerous these animals are. There are lots of them around here, they keep the stray cats and small dog population low.
Amazing incompetence. Your family close at hand in case the Fisher doesn’t run away it would have some easy victims. I think you should get rid of the live trap you do not have the ability to deal with any wild animal.
Did she really ask if the cage had a bottom on it ? Too many cartoons I guess. Ya know, the box with the stick on a string. Pull the string and the box misses the road runner every time.
Completely irresponsible. You put the kids in the house, for their safety not to get a better video, you cover the cage, bring it over to the woods and face it towards the trees. Next wait for dusk and know how to actually open a hav-a-hart so the door stays open on its own like it’s designed to and then stand a good distance away behind the animal. Not one thing these people did was responsible.
Yup, that is a fisher. We see them up here in NH quite often. That one is a fairly small one, so my guess is either a female or a juvenile male. They are pretty good at taking domestic cats when other food sources are scarce. I've lost a few myself.
New to the live trap I see. It couldn't have bitten you through the handle shield, and only wanted free not to fight. It's pretty hard to get a ground hog in one of those. Use a leg hold near its den or a hole it frequents. Live traps are great for catching squirrels that eat my corn and berries though.....somtimes I get other critters that I let go. I wish we had some fishercats in my area it would be less work for me.
I grew up in NH. Fishercats roam the woods there. But it is rare to see one. It is fabulous to see one. You are lucky to have experienced that. I’ve spent thousands of hours in the woods up there during all four seasons and have only seen a few. I live in Louisiana now and we see little minks all the time. Like 2-3 times a month. They look like miniature fishercats! That fishercat blessed you!
Lived in Manchester in 90s was at Auburn NH Massbecsic Lake hiking and got chased by One Big Ass Fisher. I Honestly didn't know what it was. It was the size of a dog All Black
@@ricjonez1816 I live in MA idk when we got them but the past 2 weeks the same tan one comes roaming about at 1:00 AM like clockwork, crazy how big some are
I grew up in NH as well and now live in Mass. Never, EVER, saw one growing up, although we always talked about them. Wouldn’t you know, the second I move to mass one comes jaunting up to my back deck. Long story short, NH fisher cats are sly mferrs
No kidding! One time only! If you did survive a second request, you never forgot it and you never made her say something a second time ever again! I call this "Jared Honey Syndrome." At least she didn't whine! It goes something like this: "Jared Honey, don't hit Susie. Jared Honey, I mean it now. Come one--don't do that Jared Honey! I am going to count to three... One, Two.. Jared Honey! I won't get you that video game if you don't stop now... Please! Jared Honey." I can't even say LOL, because IT ISN'T FUNNY!
hiking woods in Norfolk, MA circa 2000 ..with my cell phone...I nearly videoed two smaller ones doing a premating scamper up and down tress. My vid was too late ..too little...alas....missed a TH-cam opp ...most unattractive evil looking animals.
I didnt wanna say it but cmon man, you dont have to be scared of him when he's IN the cage, he doesn't have laser beams lol from the start this guy had no idea what to do... it makes me question his original plans to "catch" whatever he thought was eating his stuff. How about protect your stuff better instead of trying to catch the whole the animal kingdom you fuggin jagoff now go put the trap back in the attic lol
Or get your scardy butt off the trampoline lol. Trampolines are meant to be jumped on, not hide from a sacred animal that wants nothing to do with you 😅
I’ve never seen one get caught then released but I’m betting he runs off scared. 😊. Same thing happened when I released a skunk. He just ran off, no spray! At that moment he was more afraid of you than you hm I’m guessing! Good job!
I caught a possum once in one of those traps when I was trying to catch a stray cat, I ended up not needing the trap after a few days of feeding her she ran to me.
I’m glad you set it free. They are some bad ass weasels. My Anatolian shepherd killed a big one and $1200 dollar vet bill 32 stitches later my dog is fine.
Oh yeah, fisher cats are more feared than bears and bobcats by the old timers around here. That little thing can take deer down, they are no joke. Same family as wolverines and honey badgers I believe.
I was out with my springer on day and walked up on a big fisher who was stalking turkeys. My dog ran into the flock and they scattered. I whistled and the cat just slowly turned behind a stump. So I turned the other way and my dog came running by me and never saw the cat. I don’t allow him to fight wild animals and he knows it. I don’t want vet bills.
@@feliscatus3489 my dog was the one that was attacked. He got between him and my other livestock. I don’t let my dogs hunt coyotes, but this little monster came right up to the house
We often set traps for woodchucks, since they like to devastate our gardens. Geez, I thought we had it bad when we accidentally caught a skunk once. Fisher cats are super vicious! We used broccoli for bait. What did you use for bait, so I know what to avoid? I sure hope we don't get those fisher cats around here. I bet they'd wreak havoc with my chickens. Beautiful animal, but I hear they're related to wolverines.
A member of the weasel family. I once floated by a mature otter on a riverbank. He was huge and very scary looking. He dove in the water and was gone in a flash. Fishers are one of the only animals that can kill and eat a porky. They are tremendous tree climbers.
That man needs to grow some balls !! Really acting that scared when the animal was in a cage!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Will this man protect his family as needed ??? Wow
We moved to New Hampshire twenty years ago. People told us we would, no doubt, see frequent signs posted on trees and telephone poles about missing cats. Fishers, they said, were the problem. They specialized in domestic cats. They're so agile, they can run down squirrels, chasing them through the tree tops. Anything in the weasel family seems to be treacherous ... especially when they get elected and move to Washington DC.
I apologize, but you could have used your bare hands to open cage in the 1st place. No animal of that size can bite you through cage. It takes 5 seconds to open and hold for quick release. I hope you had good plans for the groundhog you eventually caught, e.g. release it too..
My daughter at 4 years old could trap AND skin a fisher. She could teach this guy and a lot. I'm always proud of her abilities but knowing she can do things better than grown men can is indescribable.
Lmfao. Yes. They wait for your kids to emerge and go in for the kill 😁 why would they attack your kids? I don't mean to be rude, im trying to understand people's logic about nature
You have to realize . anytime you set a live trap , you could catch anything. What were you expecting to catch ? You should leave it to a professional there city boy. LOL
I’ll bet he wouldn’t catch a horse 🐴 in that thing. You said anything....... And this is the internet..... So I just wanted to kid around a little bit. 😇 Yep, You never know what’s going to be there in the morning.
gets on the trampoline and gets bent the kids are jumping on it.... stay on the ground then, seriously. you were the last thing that poor fisher wanted anything to do with.
Last month I was hiking in the white mountains on the AT near Franconia Notch and came across a fisher. It was really neat! I’ve never seen one before. They look like big ferrets.
I was whitetail deer hunting in Wisconsin when a Fisher cat jumped on a log I was sitting on and almost ran over me. That thing had the teeth of a Wolverine and was big, just kept on going - never bothered me a bit.
I don’t care what anyone says here, that took some guts to open the trap to free that animal. I’ve seen vids where the released critter gets out and turns on the person opening the trap. Good job ….
Good job. I will say that I once broke my arm releasing a mouse because it ran toward me rather than away, and I jumped back, instinctively bracing myself with my arm as I fell. Mouse's revenge.
This is the funniest shhht. Scared as hell to touch the cage? You live in/near the woods and that afraid of wildlife? Lol Plus it’s all good it’s the internet he’s gotta get these jokes Jesus Christ ….
You obviously haven’t a clue of how aggressive fishers are, that easily could have went sideways and attacked that guy and trust me it wouldn’t have been a walk in the park even for you 💪🏻
@@jerrittdouds9315 Bahahs dude chill. The cage is closed. I’m talking about him not being able to touch the thing to simply turn it 90 ffkn degrees!!! Uses a stick ….like it’s spitting venom at his eyes or something!
A fisher is not a cat, and I'm not quite sure why you're calling it that. Is that maybe a local name? It is a mustelid - a sort of large weasel. The name originates from "fitch" which is a similar European animal; it eats mostly rabbits, occasionally porcupines, and rarely eats fish.
He's not being petty just informative for those that may not know. Many people don't even know what a Fisher is. A little knowledge shouldn't hurt anybody but I have noticed with some people it seems to.
I remember how back in the Good Old Days my grandma could make just one Fisher Cat feed a family of three adults and four children at Thanksgiving. Grandma had recipes handed down to her for generations that, despite the fact most folks thought of the Fisher cat as "the lowest of vittles," would make it taste like fillet mignon (not that any of us knew what that tasted like) with the love that she put into every meal she prepared but especially when we were dirt poor and the only food we could afford to buy was that which we stole. I doubt we would have survived the notorious winter of '37 in our shack like cabin if it hadn't been for grandma and her Fisher cat tortillas and for the Fisher fur slippers she made each of us. Watching this video brought back memories of good food and good times with the family. Grandma, if you can hear me, thank you for the memories and sorry that we had to eat you during the winter of 37. We didn't have a choice you realise. The woods around us had been stripped of Fisher cats and needs, must.
a scardy cat vs a Fisher cat 🙂
man when they both looked at each other terrified of the other i was dying laughing
I’m dyin
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
No doubt.
What a wuss
Fishers are nasty! Here in Maine, they've been known to kill lynx.
How scared would he have been if he'd actually caught the Groundhog? They are way more defensive when trapped.😂😂
I'd much rather have an encounter with a groundhog then a fisher! They are the only animal that actively hunts/eats porcupine! They are ferocious, just like every member of the Mustelid family.
Im allergic to metal, that’s why I was being so cautious around that ferocious cage!!
killer hamsters.
@@kidsgamingstation6205 😆
@@irishkelly654 The Fisher is confident in his speed to escape after the trap is open. Groundhogs will sometimes turn in defense. And they try their best to get you thru the trap. I've caught enough on my property to know. 😆
That child would be getting a spanking for not listening like gawd damn.
My late father, a prolific teller of tall tales told of fisher cats. They were extremely ferocious. Oh yeah, and one can bring down a horse.
Perhaps his tales of fisher cats were ones he DIDN'T make up.
@@YoYo_Ma this is true. But he did repeat them.
Your dad seems like a fun guy! He is right about one thing - they can be very ferocious, like any other Mustelid.
Well, that solves a 13 year old mystery. I was driving cross country with a coworker, and saw one of these off the side of the road, raised up on its haunches. He missed it, and based on my description of the animal, thought I was trying to mess with him. Now I know it was a Fisher Cat. Awesome.
Ain't a cat its a weazle,
@@stevenwilliams7432
I think you're talking about Pauly Shore.
It wasn't s fishercat it was the CHUPACABRAS ya stupid C*NT!
Its a cage dude, you more scared of the cage or the Fisher Cat inside it ? I am revoking your man card ....lolol
Ikr!!!?? I'm a 100lb female and I've never been scared like this dude. I've been trapping since I could walk tho. Takes learning I suppose. Next time he'll be more confident
@@danykasilvernail I was 12 or 13, first racoon I ever caught in a trap, of of cheese wiz, grabbed a tree branch aka club and wacked this coon over the head , I wasn't strong enough to get the trap off its foot so I just carried the coon in the trap my the trap basically dragging it behind me back to the house.
About half way across the field I was in, this coon decided it was NOT dead. and not only that it was PISSED THE F**K OFF !!!!!
That thing came for me with a vengeance and a score to settle. Grabbed a hold of my leg and here I am in this wide open field screaming a war cry like no other. my pant leg is tore to pieces. I see blood everywhere. and this beast of a creature is having a field day of whooping my ass.
In the heat of my screams I see my uncle come running and I mean a dead sprint run full bore wide open straight at me across the field and this goliath of a coon in full engaged war mode on my leg..
In one fail swoop and never breaking his stride my uncle reached down and grabbed this coon still in the trap and BODY SLAMMED this coon into the cold frozen ground. picked it back up and slammed it again. it was dead.
he came up to me with coon in hand in trap and knelt down and looked over my leg , im crying buckets , he asked me if i was ok, and I said NOOOOOOOOOOO, he looked up at me, with his free hand picked my up and ever so sofly he said, Well , you are now.... oh i hugged his so tight.. so tight, and the rest of the way he never put me down or that coon . Grandma patched me up like grandmas do and told me , next time , make sure their dead before you move them. lololol
I got 30 bucks for that hide , they said it was a jumbo size , that was in 1982 or 3.
To this very day , any animal that has ever bitten me has died. And I will never forget the wrath of my uncle protecting me and his soft words of Are you ok ? Well , you are now .
@@modwrath810 that's a great trapping and family bonding story. Thank you for sharing that. My grandfather has been trapping, hunting, and fishing for 70+ years. He taught my dad, we were taught, and now my kids are learning from the master. To me, there's nothing more pure than nature and family.
@@danykasilvernail Your last sentence , To me, there's nothing more pure than nature and family., words to my heart, thank you for showing me I wasn't the only one left in the world who feels the same.
Fisher cats are friggin viscous! And the scream at night!
You can sink into them?
If your that scared of an animal that's in a cage you should probably just lock yourself in the house and stay there.
Do not leave a trap unattended.
You also need the trap with the door at the end for releasing dangerous animals .
Never heard of such a beast.
Thank God i don't have children.! They would be eating 😁😁😁 Minus the smile
It's not a cat. It has nothing do with cats. It's a fisher - period. It's the member of the weasel family between a marten and a wolverine.
It wanted to eat your ears! 🤣
so many things wrong here folks. in the event it happens again. tell the kids to go inside and tie a bungee strap to a rake or a shovel throw a blanket over the trap it'll calm whatever is in it especially skunks and dangerous animals,like fishers! then walk the trap into the woods out of the yard hook the bungee to the door stand behind it and let her rip. oh and to the mom in the video don't stand on a trampoline if you're hoping to stand still. "Stop bouncing!" WTF is wrong with you lady?
U have no idea how lucky u were. I would have killed it. My neighbor caught one after it killed all of his chickens and the sob let it go!!! I have missing cats
Karen seems a bit slow and dated.
Your cats are less important that native wildlife. Keep your cats indoors and you won't have problems. I'd let the fisher go too.
I've never heard of a fisher cat.
All i saw was a scardy cat trying to release a animal 😅
Dude the animal Will not bite you thrue the métal cage geezus 😅🤣😂
It looks like the family has corroborated your story Mr.FisherCat, and that this was simply a mistake. You're free to go.
What is a fischer cat?
What did you use for bait?
Hello Karen, how are you doing?
Just called a Fisher... not a cat. Everybody seems to get that wrong.
U do know they are very good at climbing
She should have gotten a man to help her with that Fisher. Cool animal.
I was the kid in the blue sweatshirt
Damn how many times you gotta tell those kids to stop jumping
Next time, place a blanket or something similar over the cage before you release it. It will calm the animal down and make it less aggressive.
Good idea!
He is too careful, the fishers teeth will not bite through the leather glove.
It’s a fisher cat. Nothing will make it less aggressive. They take down animals 4 times their size.
Is that why they do that with skunks
P my friend just had some of his birds eaten by one today
You havent felt fear till you hear a fisher cat in the middle of the night when your camping in a hammock. They sound like a baby being ripped apart by a pack of coyotes.
The wife and I were visiting in New England years ago. We were walking up to the side doors of our hotel when I hear the blood curdling screams. I hunted all my life but never heard anything like that before. Again I'm from Ohio. I ask the wife WTF was that? After getting to the hotel room I did a bunch of searching and found out it was a Fisher. Pretty cool experience.
I live in Pennsylvania near the Poconos and had a Fisher that would scream at night
Hearing a Fisher is freaking scary. Was out with three dogs, one screached about a 100 feet away at night. All I could see was the two yellow eyes. My dogs, who chase everything from deer to Bears, ignored the fisher as they knew it was bad. They looked like “we don’t hear anything!”
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Bay stater here, I lived out by the quabbin in the middle of the woods. Dead of the night, I’m in bed and hear the most terrifying scream what must have been no more than fifteen yards from my first floor bedroom window. (Glass open, broken screen of course.) Scared fifteen year old me absolutely shitless. One of the scariest moments of my life. I knew they screamed, just never imagined it like that.
*you're
I would've gotten a, "crack" long before all the, "stop jumping" admonitions...
sorry to hear about your childhood abuse, that must have been very difficult
How awful.
@@sloanekuria3249 Sorry to see you weren’t taught how to respect others in childhood. It’s made you difficult.
@@jayhache5609 beating children is a crime, you psycho
Gets on trampoline because of fear and tells playing kids to stop jumping while she films. Smdh
How many times she got to say stop jumping
Well, I mean... She did kinda stop the kids in their tracks. They were jumping, having fun. She's gonna have to say it a lot. She picked a bad spot.
@@drewm1808 if my mom told me to do something, I did it, or an ass whooping followed.
@@TacoCrisma Yeah, mine didn't play that "ignore her" mess either. Still was kinda a douchebag move to run to the only place with a bouncy floor, in use, and tell everyone stand still. She's selfish AF.
Dudes afraid to even pick the trap up. I cant stop laughing 😆
Pussy vs cat
RIGHT!? dudes got plenty of room and gloves on and the thing only wants to get out.... this is laughable at best
That Fisher will take care of your groundhog. Show her respect. I say "her" because males are much bigger.
There isn't much difference between male and female
or it could be a young male as well who hasn't reached full size yet, but I agree it's mostly likely a female.
@@silicontoad7186 not much of a difference the females weigh 4 to 6 pounds and are about 2 feet long the males are 8 to 16 pounds and 3 feet long that's a very big difference the biggest being weight.
@@silicontoad7186 there isn t, the male is twice as big :)
@@brandondavis4306 yep! Just Google it myself.
MALES = 8 - 16lbs, up to 3' feet in length.
FEMALES = 4 - 6lbs, approx 2' feet in length.
So, yea.. MALES, DOUBLE the size of females is WAY larger!
Anyone that says a Fisher Cat is a blessing has never seen one run a cat down in an open field and kill it.
Exactly. My nanas dog was maimed by one. Those frickers are mean.
They'll kill dogs as well, but they especially love to get cats. They act all docile when they're caught in a cage, but they're pretty vicious and just eat every wild rabbit that's in the area and then turn on people's pets. They love to eat cats, and I sometimes hear people say "That's just a rumor," but it's very much not a rumor. Many, many of us have lost cats to the pricks. I really hate having Fishers anywhere near my property, for the sake of my domesticated animal friends that live with me.
Any animal that feeds on porcupines is worthy of respect.
The only thing that Fisher cats love more than eating human flesh is jumping on trampolines
is rhere videos of fishwrs on a trampoline??? where do i find this
Followup: we ended up domesticating the Fischer, he’s like part of the family now. His name is Nicholas, … Nicholas Caged. He likes beef jerky and Doritos
You clearly do not know just how dangerous these animals are.
There are lots of them around here, they keep the stray cats and small dog population low.
Amazing incompetence. Your family close at hand in case the Fisher
doesn’t run away it would have some easy victims. I think you should get
rid of the live trap you do not have the ability to deal with any wild
animal.
Did she really ask if the cage had a bottom on it ? Too many cartoons I guess. Ya know, the box with the stick on a string. Pull the string and the box misses the road runner every time.
Completely irresponsible. You put the kids in the house, for their safety not to get a better video, you cover the cage, bring it over to the woods and face it towards the trees. Next wait for dusk and know how to actually open a hav-a-hart so the door stays open on its own like it’s designed to and then stand a good distance away behind the animal. Not one thing these people did was responsible.
they're definitely dumb spud-heads
For the last time, stop jumping or you’re both going in the cage with the Kitty 🤣
Yup, that is a fisher. We see them up here in NH quite often. That one is a fairly small one, so my guess is either a female or a juvenile male. They are pretty good at taking domestic cats when other food sources are scarce. I've lost a few myself.
@@bloodybones63 They are called cats but actually weasel family so no.
@@bloodybones63 Weasel, Ermine, Fisher ... Total Carnivores
New to the live trap I see. It couldn't have bitten you through the handle shield, and only wanted free not to fight. It's pretty hard to get a ground hog in one of those. Use a leg hold near its den or a hole it frequents. Live traps are great for catching squirrels that eat my corn and berries though.....somtimes I get other critters that I let go. I wish we had some fishercats in my area it would be less work for me.
how much did he have to pay for this advice?
I never knew about "Fisher Cats!!" Thanks for posting. Interesting creature.....I believe it's in the Weasel Family. That one is particularly huge!!
He should have killed it 😳🚬
Marten not Weasel.
@@steffenrosmus9177 Fishers Martens and weasels are all in the Mustelidae family. Fishers and marten are in the same genus.
That's a normal sized female.
@@steffenrosmus9177 marten is.in the weasel family toom
I grew up in NH. Fishercats roam the woods there. But it is rare to see one. It is fabulous to see one. You are lucky to have experienced that. I’ve spent thousands of hours in the woods up there during all four seasons and have only seen a few. I live in Louisiana now and we see little minks all the time. Like 2-3 times a month. They look like miniature fishercats! That fishercat blessed you!
Is it true when fishercat gets H*RNY he cumms running and humps your belt then some WHITE liquid comes out?
Lived in Manchester in 90s was at Auburn NH Massbecsic Lake hiking and got chased by One Big Ass Fisher. I Honestly didn't know what it was. It was the size of a dog All Black
@@ricjonez1816 I live in MA idk when we got them but the past 2 weeks the same tan one comes roaming about at 1:00 AM like clockwork, crazy how big some are
Just seen one kill a possum in my yard in Rockland
I grew up in NH as well and now live in Mass. Never, EVER, saw one growing up, although we always talked about them. Wouldn’t you know, the second I move to mass one comes jaunting up to my back deck. Long story short, NH fisher cats are sly mferrs
My mother would have told me once to stop jumping, lucky kid.
No kidding! One time only! If you did survive a second request, you never forgot it and you never made her say something a second time ever again! I call this "Jared Honey Syndrome." At least she didn't whine! It goes something like this: "Jared Honey, don't hit Susie. Jared Honey, I mean it now. Come one--don't do that Jared Honey! I am going to count to three... One, Two.. Jared Honey! I won't get you that video game if you don't stop now... Please! Jared Honey." I can't even say LOL, because IT ISN'T FUNNY!
My thoughts exactly. We would be bouncing off the ground if we'd ignored our mom. Imagine what the kid's teacher endures.
hiking woods in Norfolk, MA circa 2000 ..with my cell phone...I nearly videoed two smaller ones doing a premating scamper up and down tress. My vid was too late ..too little...alas....missed a TH-cam opp ...most unattractive evil looking animals.
your husband is scared to pick up a cage with an animal trapped in it, and yest I know fishers, good luck to you mam
I didnt wanna say it but cmon man, you dont have to be scared of him when he's IN the cage, he doesn't have laser beams lol from the start this guy had no idea what to do... it makes me question his original plans to "catch" whatever he thought was eating his stuff. How about protect your stuff better instead of trying to catch the whole the animal kingdom you fuggin jagoff now go put the trap back in the attic lol
Get that kid under control. You told him stop jumping like 5 times. lol
Or get your scardy butt off the trampoline lol. Trampolines are meant to be jumped on, not hide from a sacred animal that wants nothing to do with you 😅
@@PeteCurringtonThe fisher wasn’t afraid.
They are not "cats" at all but members of the weasel family.
Mustelids, to be exact. Includes weasel, badger, otter, fisher, mink, skunk, marten, wolverine.
Ah right ,never heard of this before , thanks
You accidentally caught a wolverine in Fishers clothing 🤣
Fishers are mean just like a wolverine or badger.
I’ve never seen one get caught then released but I’m betting he runs off scared. 😊. Same thing happened when I released a skunk. He just ran off, no spray! At that moment he was more afraid of you than you hm I’m guessing! Good job!
Do the release in the woods. Not near the kids.
The young man is in need of some discipline.
I don’t understand why this guy need a pipe to lift it up when I had a handle You must’ve spent a lot of years in college
Asking a kid to stop jumping when he's on a trampoline is like asking him to stop breathing.
You do have a set. I used a ten foot pole to release a weasel i caught 🥺
I caught a possum once in one of those traps when I was trying to catch a stray cat,
I ended up not needing the trap after a few days of feeding her she ran to me.
I’m glad you set it free. They are some bad ass weasels. My Anatolian shepherd killed a big one and $1200 dollar vet bill 32 stitches later my dog is fine.
Bruhhh.... fr fr?!! smh
Oh yeah, fisher cats are more feared than bears and bobcats by the old timers around here.
That little thing can take deer down, they are no joke. Same family as wolverines and honey badgers I believe.
I was out with my springer on day and walked up on a big fisher who was stalking turkeys. My dog ran into the flock and they scattered. I whistled and the cat just slowly turned behind a stump. So I turned the other way and my dog came running by me and never saw the cat. I don’t allow him to fight wild animals and he knows it. I don’t want vet bills.
Don't let your dog attack wildlife.
@@feliscatus3489 my dog was the one that was attacked. He got between him and my other livestock. I don’t let my dogs hunt coyotes, but this little monster came right up to the house
Should feed the children to the fishercat lol
We often set traps for woodchucks, since they like to devastate our gardens. Geez, I thought we had it bad when we accidentally caught a skunk once. Fisher cats are super vicious! We used broccoli for bait. What did you use for bait, so I know what to avoid? I sure hope we don't get those fisher cats around here. I bet they'd wreak havoc with my chickens. Beautiful animal, but I hear they're related to wolverines.
A member of the weasel family. I once floated by a mature otter on a riverbank. He was huge and very scary looking. He dove in the water and was gone in a flash. Fishers are one of the only animals that can kill and eat a porky. They are tremendous tree climbers.
A pig?
@@PaulWashington.. Porcupine
In the northeast, otters CAN get huge, unlike the western otters. River otters are known to grow sometimes 6 feet long.😮
That man needs to grow some balls !! Really acting that scared when the animal was in a cage!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Will this man protect his family as needed ??? Wow
I bet he bought those gloves just for this occasion 😂
Fishers are in the weasel family
Nice release. Fisher's are a very dangerous critter, very glad she decided to run instead of turn around.
Lol what. You don't know much about animal behaviour it's terrifed
their mating calls are disturbing
Those are nasty viscious things. They will kill your chickens, small dog, cats and even go after beavers by digging into their huts
My nanas dog was maimed by one. I remember being afraid of the poor mutt cuz it looked nasty. Me and my cousins called him old scarsnout.
Stop MEANS STOP!! 🤨 Try placing blanket over the kid.
I'm sorry this didn't get the attention that it deserved. This comment is gold.
@surfering asguy it will calm the kid down and make him less jumpy.
These jawns look like a fox mixed with otter mixed with ferret
I use a string tied through to the door and lock bar to open the trap from a distance. Rarely but sometimes those things will attack you.
We moved to New Hampshire twenty years ago. People told us we would, no doubt, see frequent signs posted on trees and telephone poles about missing cats. Fishers, they said, were the problem. They specialized in domestic cats. They're so agile, they can run down squirrels, chasing them through the tree tops. Anything in the weasel family seems to be treacherous ... especially when they get elected and move to Washington DC.
I apologize, but you could have used your bare hands to open cage in the 1st place. No animal of that size can bite you through cage. It takes 5 seconds to open and hold for quick release.
I hope you had good plans for the groundhog you eventually caught, e.g. release it too..
Never seen someone take so long to open a cage
Just open the damn thing and let em go
My daughter at 4 years old could trap AND skin a fisher. She could teach this guy and a lot. I'm always proud of her abilities but knowing she can do things better than grown men can is indescribable.
Do not release a fisher cat! You must drown it or shoot it. They are nasty. They will attack your pets and your kids
Lmfao. Yes. They wait for your kids to emerge and go in for the kill 😁 why would they attack your kids? I don't mean to be rude, im trying to understand people's logic about nature
I love a story with a happy ending!
Vry great job sir that u hv relesed it..hats off to uu
You have to realize . anytime you set a live trap , you could catch anything. What were you expecting to catch ? You should leave it to a professional there city boy. LOL
I’ll bet he wouldn’t catch a horse 🐴 in that thing.
You said anything.......
And this is the internet.....
So I just wanted to kid around a little bit. 😇
Yep, You never know what’s going to be there in the morning.
No you shoot the damn thing
Not to be too pickey, they are not cats, they are weasels (mustilid). They will kill and eat the woodchuck given the chance.
gets on the trampoline and gets bent the kids are jumping on it....
stay on the ground then, seriously. you were the last thing that poor fisher wanted anything to do with.
Last month I was hiking in the white mountains on the AT near Franconia Notch and came across a fisher. It was really neat! I’ve never seen one before. They look like big ferrets.
YOU ARE SO LUCKY HE DIDNT TURN ON YOU. Sheesh
I was whitetail deer hunting in Wisconsin when a Fisher cat jumped on a log I was sitting on and almost ran over me. That thing had the teeth of a Wolverine and was big, just kept on going - never bothered me a bit.
I don’t care what anyone says here, that took some guts to open the trap to free that animal. I’ve seen vids where the released critter gets out and turns on the person opening the trap. Good job ….
Why do people insist on calling them "fisher cats"? They ARE NOT cats or even related to cats. They are members of the WEASEL family.
Sea horses ain’t horses. Jellyfish ain’t fish. Catfish ain’t feline. Stop being a snob.
High metabolism. That animal is super hungry after being detained.
Good job. I will say that I once broke my arm releasing a mouse because it ran toward me rather than away, and I jumped back, instinctively bracing myself with my arm as I fell. Mouse's revenge.
That's hilarious! Sorry about your arm.
This is the funniest shhht. Scared as hell to touch the cage? You live in/near the woods and that afraid of wildlife? Lol
Plus it’s all good it’s the internet he’s gotta get these jokes Jesus Christ ….
You obviously haven’t a clue of how aggressive fishers are, that easily could have went sideways and attacked that guy and trust me it wouldn’t have been a walk in the park even for you 💪🏻
@@jerrittdouds9315 Bahahs dude chill. The cage is closed. I’m talking about him not being able to touch the thing to simply turn it 90 ffkn degrees!!! Uses a stick ….like it’s spitting venom at his eyes or something!
This guy has no sense let's do fisher cat back loosen his yard
Having chickens, I wouldn't have "accidentally" caught it lol.
Nobody cares
And you're not smart. They kill everything they can, little baby wild birds too.
The fisher is also probably trying to catch the groundhog.
Fishers aren’t cats. 💛
They will eat all your pets! They will attack your children. Should have put it in your truck and relocated it.
we can live with nature, maybe pets are useless creatures unless its like a hunting dog
A fisher is not a cat, and I'm not quite sure why you're calling it that. Is that maybe a local name? It is a mustelid - a sort of large weasel. The name originates from "fitch" which is a similar European animal; it eats mostly rabbits, occasionally porcupines, and rarely eats fish.
True, they are part of the weasel family and they’re nasty. They deserve to be killed off
A Fisher is not a cat it is a member of the same family as Mink's, weasels, Badgers, Ferrets and skunks and are a highly valued fur animal
A spider monkey isn't an arachnid, a mountain lion isn't a lion, but you are petty.
He's not being petty just informative for those that may not know. Many people don't even know what a Fisher is. A little knowledge shouldn't hurt anybody but I have noticed with some people it seems to.
@@johndoe43 Oh yes he was, he had another comment he deleted. Crayfish aren't fish.
Can’t believe you didn’t sh**t it
I was today years old when I first heard of one of these.
Me too
Hello Josephine how are you doing today?
@@DavidWalker-xw4sb Lol the Facebook thirst bots are on TH-cam now I see. 🤣
@@deletdis6173 And who are those?
Good neighbor to wildlife. hope you catch ground hog.
That was very painful to watch.
You're a regular outdoorsman lol
Omg killing me
I hope you don't catch a Sasquatch in that trap. You'll have a helluva time trying to get it outta there!
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I remember how back in the Good Old Days my grandma could make just one Fisher Cat feed a family of three adults and four children at Thanksgiving. Grandma had recipes handed down to her for generations that, despite the fact most folks thought of the Fisher cat as "the lowest of vittles," would make it taste like fillet mignon (not that any of us knew what that tasted like) with the love that she put into every meal she prepared but especially when we were dirt poor and the only food we could afford to buy was that which we stole. I doubt we would have survived the notorious winter of '37 in our shack like cabin if it hadn't been for grandma and her Fisher cat tortillas and for the Fisher fur slippers she made each of us. Watching this video brought back memories of good food and good times with the family. Grandma, if you can hear me, thank you for the memories and sorry that we had to eat you during the winter of 37. We didn't have a choice you realise. The woods around us had been stripped of Fisher cats and needs, must.
I ate your grandma as well. But in a different way than you mean
It's a fisher not a fisher cat.