This is a Fisher, Not a Werewolf
We know how much some of our readers would love for this to be a werewolf, but sadly, it's just a fisher that Michael Merchant found near the side of the road. The fisher (Martes pennanti) is a member of the weasel family, similar to the marten. Despite their name, fishers do not hunt or eat fish!
Watch how Michael found it:
Actually they do Hunt.
ReplyDeleteWe lost a lot of Neighbor hood cats in our from a Fisher.
He meant they don't hunt fish. I don't know why he just didn't say "they don't fish."
DeleteA marten can catch a squirrel running thru the treetops, a fisher can catch a marten.
ReplyDeleteWhy the werewolf crap. How about Frankenstein? Bigfoot Site!
ReplyDeleteHuh? Well go to the Forum and read! http://bigfoot.forumotion.com/t196-pertinent-dogman-information
Delete- Werewolves ARE a type of Bigfoot! You obviously don't understand Real Science.
hopefully you understand real sarcasm and how to spot wingnuts...
That rooster is more annoying than MK's squeaky chair.
ReplyDeleteBigfoot seems very elusive tonight.
ReplyDeleteI saw one of those in Oregon when I was hunting. It weirded me out
ReplyDeleteYou saw Michael Merchant?
ReplyDeleteLol.
DeleteWell we have now decended below the level of the suspected bigfoot feces photo. We are now relegated to stories about roadkill. Oh but wait! The hoaxer in Montana was roadkill.
ReplyDeleteI hate bigfoot
ReplyDeleteAnd i'm not playing with you guys anymore.
DeleteMy friend went to the Dr. for a fisher, I never realized this is what he was talking about.
ReplyDeletelol.I bet you didn't.
DeleteWhat was a small ferocious varmit doing in my friends anus?
DeleteEvery time I see and hear Michael Merchant I just wanna punch him n the fuckin' face!
ReplyDeleteI dare ya!
DeleteI dare ya!
DeleteAnon 5:55, I before E except after C you meat-headed shit sack!
DeleteBobby Buttons is a dumb dumb. I'll keep it simple for ya stupid.
DeleteOh and don't dare cause I'll do it. When I see MM I'm grabbing his cock by the neck and petting that little bugger.
DeleteNot on the rug, man!
DeleteAnon 6:14. Can't beleive you wanna polish Merchant's pork sword! :0
DeleteBobby 'Butwipe' Buttons, actually there are far more words in the English language where the 'I before E except after C' rule does not apply!! So id think a little more next time before calling a complete stranger a meat-headed shit sack! you ball sucking cock sucker!!
DeleteAnother genius here folks.
ReplyDeletehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feisty
Thanks. Would you like some fumunda cheese?
DeleteFishers are badass!!! They are the only predator that actively hunt porcupines. These guys also are known to eat baby Bigfoots. Bigfoot mommys tell the bigfoot children stories about boogie fishers to keep them in line.
ReplyDeleteThat means they can catch a baby bigfoot swinging through the trees too. They love eating baby Bigfoots.
ReplyDeleteTHAT WAS A GIBBON!!!!!!
DeleteIT WAS A GD BABY BIGFOOT BEING CHASED BY A GD FISHER!!!! GIBBON!!!! EVERYONE KNOWS THEY AREN'T NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICA!!!! JERK!!!!
DeleteAnd most worthless post (topic)on the Internet for the date of 11SEP12 goes to........
ReplyDeleteshould have just said this was a bigfoot fetus. im sure it would suffice because every other hoakie story is claiming a bigfoot. makes me wishied i kept that bread toast as evidence as seeing bigfoot. it passed on 3 point only because it only showed the back of his cone-head. slightly blurring too.
ReplyDeleteI was chowing box 2nt and I swear I saw a mid-tarsal break
ReplyDeletei had 2 fishers go right under my treestand in pa last year, at first it looked like a giant snake(knowing it wasn't) the way they run, it was really cool to watch them.
ReplyDeleteA man here in the town i live in was telling my husband he has been seeing a chimp or a baby orangtun running through his yard,It is brownish red. well my skeptic husband told him it was a fisher. So i can't wait to show him this video because he thinks fishers are the size of bear cubs.
ReplyDeleteGee, wish that was all I had to do riding around looking for road kill....Guy needs to get a job..
ReplyDeleteThis is possibly the stupidest post by Merchant ive ever seen. Why was this shown? I suppose it was due to the werewolf pawl thing that was shown not too long ago.
ReplyDeleteFirst lets talk about a fisher. As someone who hast trapped many of them i can tell you alot of what merchant is saying is made up. First and foremost on that werewolf pawl, that doesnt resemble a fisher pawl any more than a human foot resembles a fish fin. I dont know if thats why he made this video but im guessing it is. Fisher feet dont have claws even remotely close to that in the video.
Secondly, again why was this video made by him? Do you know how big a fisher is? Basically a little bigger than a house cat. With a body similar in proportion to a weasel. So why in the world would the thought that this could be a werewolf even remotely come up? No one would remotely think that. Most people dont know what a fisher is, so if you just showed them that first pic of the snout and teeth, the viewer would probably think fox or racoon. The thought of werwolf wouldnt even remotely come up.
So again why did merchant post this? To be cute? And his knowledge of them is flawed as well. Its obvious he just opened up an animal atlas and read their description. For he is wrong about a great deal many things in this video.
But first and foremost, why was this video made???????? Their is no one, and i mean no one no one no one who would confuse a fisher with a werewolf. The thought is just stupid and ignorant. Its obvious this video was made to try and snap back at that werewolf paw thing posted earlier. Which looks something like a badger foot. But that foot isnt even close to a fisher foot, so their is no comparison their and is obsurd. Fishers have claws roughly the size of a house cat when out.
Merchant has reached a new low. If he was just gonna talk about roadkill, then good for him, but to try and make a play on a previous post to get attention is rediculous and takes away any credibility he had. If you want to make yourself look like a professional biologist/researcher then you should act like one.