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Oct 6, 2026
Mike ArmstrongHOST
Well, folks, I have good news.
Mike ArmstrongHOST
We determined during the break that we, with a high degree of confidence, that it was a fisher cat.
Tucker SilvaCORRESPONDENT
We also have a texter who chimed in saying it was a fisher cat.
Mike ArmstrongHOST
See, I make good wild cat impressions.
Tucker SilvaCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Mike ArmstrongHOST
We then got into a very elaborate debate as to what would have...
Mike ArmstrongHOST
I would not allow my dog to go chase a fish or cat around the backyard just so we're all on the same page.
Mike ArmstrongHOST
But had I, you know, 80-pound lab... versus Fisher Cat.
Michael HowieHOST
[upbeat music] I'm Michael Howie, and this is Defender Radio, the podcast for wildlife advocates and animal lovers, brought to you by The Furbearers.
Michael HowieHOST
Fishers, Pecania pennanti, are secretive forest-dwelling members of the weasel family found across parts of Canada.
Michael HowieHOST
But the Colombian population in BC's central interior is small, isolated, and facing serious pressure from habitat loss, wildfire, and trapping.
Michael HowieHOST
Rich Weir is a senior wildlife biologist with Artemis Wildlife Consultants, who has spent much of his career studying fishers and other carnivores in British Columbia.
Rich WeirGUEST
And I, I, I remember when I was doing my graduate work a long time ago, uh, was when they first started, uh, the media started to get a little bit more, uh, politically correct in, in the words they were using, and so instead of calling people fishermen, they were calling them fishers.
Michael HowieHOST
Oh, okay.
Rich WeirGUEST
Uh, and so I remember re- opening the Vancouver Sun one day, and there was this, uh, headline, "Fishers Unite." And I was like, "What?"
Michael HowieHOST
[laughs]