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Originally Posted by pmj
Several years ago our golden retreiver, who happened to be the self elected neighborhood watch dog, chased a fisher cat up a tree. What an interesting looking animal...the fisher cat stayed up in the tree for several hours while the dog sat and guarded the tree...fortunately we convinced the dog to just let it go and come home.
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You and your Golden were very lucky. Our neighbor's 95lb dog received some serious lacerations to his hindquarters from a Fisher. The Vet's theory was that the dog chased the Fisher, but at some point must've cornered it - they then get very aggressive, so the Fisher became the chaser, and did its damage to the dog even as he was fleeing! Pretty scary.
We saw the Fisher a few times prior to that, and a few times after, but then never again (this was last Spring).