Police shoot animal after it attacks dog, 2 people

[Lee Borgersen]

Police shoot animal after it attacks dog, 2 people

GLENVILLE, N.Y. Police in an Albany-area town shot and killed a 20-pound fisher after it chased a man walking a dog and later attacked a woman in her garage.
Police in Glenville, outside Schenectady, were called after a man said an animal resembling an otter went after his dog last evening.

They managed to get away, put a 61-year-old woman says the fisher attacked her when she went to take her garbage out to her garage.

She says the animal latched onto her foot and wouldn't let go until she had struck it repeatedly with a fire extinguisher. The two-foot-long fisher then ran into her house through the door she left open, and the woman had to chase it out.

Police were able to track the fisher through the tracks it left in the snow, and one of the officers shot and killed it.

The carcass was sent to the state's wildlife lab to be tested for rabies.

Fishers are large martens. They don't usually attack humans but are known for eating porcupines.

Typical "Fisher":

[Bufflehead]

Serious, I had one confront me during deer hunting a number of years ago. It charged me, I was sitting on a downed tree and I watched it come through the woods, acting like it was hunting, winding something. Then it jump on to the end of the tree I was sitting on. Looked at me and started gaining speed running straight at me..looking at me the whole time

[Fishahollik]

What most animals don't seem to realize is, when I (or Bufflehead, I know him well) are in the woods, WE are the top of the food chain.

"Say ello to my leettle frien"

[Realtree]

that is a wild story. hard to believe a small animal like a fisher would have the cahoonas to take on something the size of a person.