Sometimes mistaken for cats, fishers are not for cuddling
By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 29, 2021, 12:12 p.m.
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A fisher standing on a stone wall in central Massachusetts.MassWildlife/Bill Byrne
On a summer morning in 2016, I was walking in the Middlesex Fells in Stoneham when I saw what looked like a large house cat with thick, dark brown fur, chasing a rabbit along a trail about 20 feet away from me.
What would a house cat be doing in the woods?
Then I realized what I was looking at wasnât a cat at all â it was a fisher, a large member of the weasel family. This one looked to be about 2 feet long with a foot-long tail.