AAAACKKK! so I was walking around my pasture cleaning up this morning
and I found several piles of Luna-sized scat (my 50-60 pound dog), but reddish orange color with bits of red in it. Somebody had been eating apples in my mini-orchard.
Fast forward to 2 hours ago, and I was playing with Dahli up in the pasture arena, letting her run, buck and do some jumping. So she was trotting around and suddenly stopped dead, froze on the spot, head and tail up, staring toward the orchard.
Aaaack! At this point I'm sure it is a fisher cat! It was nearly black, probably 3 feet long, bushy fur, pretty fat...and just walking slowly, peacefully and fearlessly from the woods next to us, across the pasture, and into the orchard.
About a half hour later, it left the orchard and headed back into the woods.
Thank goodness it came at the time it did. My plan was to let the dogs out after I finished up with Dahli, so they could run around and play while I finished cleaning up the pasture. I hate to think what might have happened if they'd been running around when it was out and about.
Hopefully once the apples are gone, the fisher will leave too. 
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I pictured her on her back, head and tail (and four legs) up, dead!
But now I understand, she spotted the Fisher Cat and fixed a gaze upon it.
Phew!
I had my 1st sighting a couple years later, crossing a road at night.
Since I moved to Maine, I've heard them in the woods...or rather, based on the youtube posted yesterday, I've heard their victims 
I also heard one scream loudly several years back in the middle of the night, in the trees just behind my house.
Yesterday was my 2nd sighting. He was sleeping on top of a small tree overlooking my pasture. I'm wondering, too, if he is the one who knocked my 2 chairs over in my back yard on Monday. I came home to find the dogs barking like crazy out the back windows. Since the air had been still all day, so wind didn't knock them down, I thought it was a trespassing neighbor.
