Posted on 12/29/2007 6:47:40 AM PST by #1CTYankee
My wife was letting our dogs ou in the backyard yesterday when she spotted someting starting to climp a tree, she called on me to come quick.
"What is that!
"I think it's a fisher Cat."
I ran in to grab my camera but it had climbed a tree before I could get a good shot, we watched for about 20 minutes and he stared his decent down. I sent my son out after having switched the digital to video mode.
What follows is footage from 100 ft away.
I've uploaded the video which can be found here:
http://uncutvideo.aol.com/users/custom65/67ae48e867e62e3db90e0bdaae813c0d?index=0
It's only visible for a few seconds.
Walking around in a foot of snow and never having used a recorder before it looks more like the Blair Witch Project more than anything.
Forward to the footage 58 seconds in.
Funny looking creature, face almost that of a bear cub and a tail longer than a Racoon.
My wife heard it a few nights before we actually spotted it, she described it as a baby screeching.
Who can afford that these days? ;-D
Cougar? They've been moving in all over....
Confirmed presence in North Dakota (a few got shot) in the last couple of years, along the Missouri and Little Missouri Breaks/badlands. It has been a couple of hundred years. I don't mind the elk and moose making a comeback, but I'd just as soon be at the top of their food chain, not some other critter.
He sure looks healthy ... and mean. ;D
It’s been recommended that you keep all cats and small dogs under a watchful eye when outdoors if he is still prowling about. ;)
The kids were out back sledding and the wife keeping a watchful eye., she said it must be afraid of her because he scampered down the tree and ran up an adjacent pine on the neighbors property.
Since she is 6 foot I can't blame him for being scared. ;-D
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