She believes the noise was the distinctive sound of a fisher, also known as a fisher cat.
From the boston.com
On first thought, a hungry fisher would seem to have the motive to go after a cat.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
There is one study on fisher diet from Massachusetts that recorded two observations of a fisher eating a cat, but found no cat hair or bones in 226 physical diet samples.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
Maybe those samples will have the first physical evidence of a fisher eating a cat, and I can finally believe all these frightening tales about cat-eating fishers.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
Since cats fight each other all the time, and a black cat would look an awful lot like a fisher, witnesses'accounts take us only so far.