“Those fisher cats”, she said, “they’re awful, they keep me up all night sometimes”.
The screaming often attributed to fishers are actually red foxes, according to massaudobon.org
Fishers are known to be fairly quiet, I guess. They can be sneaky, though, so who knows!
What the heck is a fisher cat?
This animal is not a fisher or a cat, it’s actually a member of the weasel family. These evasive, secretive beings saturate Massachusetts despite being almost completely gone from the state back in the 1800’s…