>>4889813Don't they kill cats? Based if so
>>4889813Fishers are so cute
>>4889813I caught one with my trail cam in upstate New York a couple times. I love mustelids.
>>4889813Has anyone ever kept a pet fisher?
>>4893580I wish!
>>4889813Qrd on these things?
>>4891491No. they're about the same size as a cat
>>4895060They're just big weasels. There's nothing special about them.
>>4895072>>4895061Fishers routinely kill Canadian lynx, which are larger than housecats
>>4895077That's not true at all.
>>4895083Cope, catfag:https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jwmg.21538?campaign=wolearlyview>Lynx killed are often healthy adults, and some adult malesThe mean weight of adult male and female lynx was 11.3 kg (range=8.2–15.0 kg,n=101) and 9.0 kg(range=7.0–10.5 kg,n=58), respectively.We determined that fishers had killed 14 lynx (9 females, 5 males) and likely killed 2 additional lynx (2 females). We could not determine the species of predator for the remaining 2 lynx (1 female, 1 male; Table 4).Thirteen of the 14 lynx killed by fishers were adults with established home ranges, and weights and bone marrow indicated that these lynx were healthy or in fair condition(Table 5). The mean weight (8.2 kg) of 3 adult lynx that were recovered before the predator could consume the carcass was similar to the mean weight of adult lynx captured in this study.
>>4895083Why are catfags like this?
I live in northern california and I found a mink in my trap outside the coop one morning. Flabbergasted me, I didn't realize they were in the area but they can range all the way down to Sonoma.
>>4895581Weasel-like mustelids are pretty elusive, the range that we have documented for them probably doesn't look anything like their actual range.
>>4889813Now that the Pennsylvanian Fisher has emerged from hiding and seen his own shadow, we can expect a looming economic crisis.
>>4895581It was hunting rats
>>4891491i just wish the cat hating zoosadists would fuck off from this boardwhy do you have to make every thread about hating cats
>>4897431Maybe because catfags shit up this board (over a dozen different threads about cats instead of sticking to one or two generals) and shit up the rest of the internet with nonstop cat content and because their shitty pets are killing off birds and wrecking ecosystems.
>>4895111Catfags take another L
>>4895111Mustelids punch so far above their weight. I bet a weasel the size of a leopard could kill an elephant.
>>4897433Are you the weirdo who wants to fuck birds, is that what this is all about
>>4898080No one here fucks birds, but /kot/ often has some interesting posts of a variety rarely seen in /dog/ or really seen outside any thread but /horse/ or /fox/
>>4898079More of a /tg/ post, but my dnd setting has a bear-sized mustelid that specializes in hunting dragons.The weasels inspire.
>>4898080Even worse he's one of these zoomer NPCs trying to make a career out of reading fucking 4chan posts out loud to other NPC zoomers. Ever since covid every single board has at least one of these skibidi faggots manufacturing a console war for content. In the most obvious, cringe-inducing possible way, now with extra samefagging. I miss the actual schizos, at least they were funny.
oh no no no streamerbros hes on to usshut it down
>>4898102i hope this doesnt affect my videos about /vp/ threads ;_;
>>4898094What do /kot/ and /horse/ have in common?
Anyone who lives in an area with fisher's know to keep your cats inside. It isn't a myth or anything. They eat cats and you find the headless cat corpses when they just killed the cat instead.
>>4897431what you gonna do, pussy?jk, I'm ok with cats
>>4897431Cats are a menace to wildlife. If you like nature you probably dislike feral cats.
>>4895111Step outside. Seriously.
>>4898599I do step outside which is how i know cats are pests that need to be removed
>>4898414Based fishers fighting against the cat pestilence.
>>4898414>They eat cats and you find the headless cat corpses when they just killed the cat instead.Pics?
>>4900081>4chan users excercise their hate boner for innocent animals at any point possible.
>>4900399Outdoors cats are not "innocent" animals. They are destroyers of ecosystems.
>>4900399>innocentA roaming invasive predator is literally the worst thing for ecosystems and societies alike. Did you know feral cats are directly responsible for at least 750 foodborne toxoplasmosis deaths per year? No stray dogs no rabies, no stray cats no toxo. Dogs and cats belong indoors.
>>4900399>Psychotic catfags excuse their hate boner for beautiful birds at any point possible
>>4897431Stop making so many cat threads and posting so many cat pictures
>>4898568>Cats are a menace to wildlifeyou know who is 100000x times worse to the environment? Humans, better kill yourself to help improve it anon, cause I doubt you are helping it.
>>4891491>>4895111>>4895548>>4897431>>4897433stop spamming fake arguments with yourself
I'm pretty sure they kill and eat almost everything close to their own size, they are one of the few animals that preys on porcupinesPretty cool dudes, if a little savage
>>4901761Humans are also capable of improving or maintaining the environment. Cats are not.
>>4903178Mustelids are based
Ok but do they even catch fish?
why do they get beluga foreheads? half the pics I can find look like giant cute martens and the other half are S L A M M E D
>>4906119They're called fisher cats despite not being felids
>>4906781I WANT TO SNUGGLE IT SO FUCKING BAD
>>4906781can these be domesticated like ferrets?
>>4895548Toxoplasmosis
>>4906781big brained animal!
>>4889813THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
>>4897431Feral cats are a huge problem and catfags make that problem only worse.
>>4906781Aww they look like a marten evolved to have huge brains
>>4911491>which is bannable outside of /b/.unfortunately that rule doesn't get enforced here given how many cat/dog console war threads stay up. they're good about banning racist posts and that's about it.
These things are common up here in Canada.
>>4904558>Humans are also capable of improving or maintaining the environment.unironically debatable
>>4911491That is simply not true in first world countries though. I have never seen an actual feral dog, the very occasional stray gets picked up by animal control and returned to the owner, adopted out or put down.Stray and feral/semi feral stray cats are much more common. I'm skeptical about the claims made about their environmental effects but the comparison to dogs is simply not valid.
>>4911592I hardly ever see a stray dog. I see feral cats everywhere.
>>4911592It's a fact that feral cats destroy ecosystems
>>4912618I moved from Italy to the US. I occasionally saw stray dogs in Italy as a kid but I've literally never, not once, ever seen a stray dog stateside. Stray cats? How many do you fucking want? I can't go from my front door to my car without seeing one.
>>4913565There are way too many goddamn stray cats
>>4913565They're all over the place in poor and rural areas. People let them run loose all day while they're at work, or busy coping with withdrawals.
>>4913565Why does Italy have more stray dogs than other Euro countries?
>>4915518italians are kinda weird
>>4908758Domestication takes hundreds if not thousands of years. Ferrets were domesticated from polecats 20,000+ years ago.I'm unaware of any attempts at domesticating fishers. Fishers can be tamed, though,https://youtu.be/cchjKC87p4Y?t=1772:57Tame =/= Domesticated
>>4915531Fishers, minks, otters, wolverines...why are mustelids so tamable?
>>4915574They're very intelligent which helps them learn fast, and very cute and fluffy which gives us motivation to try.
>>4891491brown hands wrote this
>>4916370Shut up faggot. You probably think it's fine when invasive cats kill birds and small mammals. You can't cry foul when a cat gets killed by a fisher or dingo or hawk.
>>4916370herrr derrr you don't like an invasive species that destroys ecosystems so you must be uhhh.... brown or something
>>4893580No. Its a native mammal so it has rabies until proven otherwise chud. Don't even think about getting one. Even if you have had it for 8 years and it has bitten you multiple times over the years with no adverse effects, We WILL find you we WILL raid your house with a swat team, we WILL behead it in front of you, and we WILL find rabies in it. Just be a good goy and get an indoor cat like you are supposed to.
>>4913565Americans are scared of dogs nowadays a feral dog outside is a heckin bloodthirsty predator!
>>4917821The dog probably has rabies!
>>4917820Justice for Peanut the squirrel
>>4915531>Domestication takes hundreds if not thousands of yearsSilver foxes were effectively domesticated within a human lifespan. If you consider regular old ferrets as domesticated then it shouldn't take very long to get Fishers to the same standard. They're small, reach sexual maturity within a year, have a gestation period of less than two months, and have an average litter size of 3, so you could select for friendliness relatively quickly.
>>4915531>>4919316This looks like a fun pet. it's like having a hamster, a monkey, and a dog all wrapped in one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ic7FyZV0M0
>>4919316Domestic minks already exist, sort of
>>4919326The hamster wheel lol
>>4889813https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJrTO76A4sk
>>4919326pet fisher now
>>4889813They hunt porcupines and Canada lynx regularly
>>4906781daww
>>4889813When I was a kid, these used to be known as flat-footed fishers
>>4895111Catfags BTFO again
>>4919326Fun pet
>>4892413Post trailcam
>>4895060They kill cats, lynx, and porcupines regularly. Based.
>>4925051They can't stop taking the LI've shot about 300 cats and have hung each up on my fence if anyone wants to claim their vermins carcass. Collar or not if you let it roam, it's a getting a .22 mag injection.
>>4930105I'll add I shouldn't have to do this. Farmers shoot dingos around here which has caused this issue.
>>4917820Justice for Pnut
>>4930105BASED.
>>4895111>We determined that fishers had killed 14 lynx (9 females, 5 males) and likely killed 2 additional lynx (2 females).Nice work, boys
>>4898414nice
